An eager youth is ordered onto a dangerous quest by a wise elder. Success will bring with it the assumption of the elder's mantle. Failure . . . is best not considered. A work of flash fiction in the Fantasy genre, The Rite offers readers a tasty 600 word snack for their imaginations, served up by author Harper Jayne.
After decades of struggling to remain somewhat sane amidst a sea of creativity Mathew has honed his craft and emerged from the madness a compulsive storyteller.
Mathew is obsessed with imperfect characters throwing themselves (or being thrown) into dangerous situations within fantastic settings. Building his worlds one word at a time, he populates them with characters who posess lives of their own.
A Pacific-Northwest native rumored to glow in the dark and shed water like a duck, Mathew now resides in sunny Southern Californina with his wife (and partner-in-publishing-crime) Bridgette, their two distractio--err, children--and their dog, Illy, a natural herder.