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Diabolical
Defying genre and expectation, Diabolical pits Love, Reason and Patience against the twins Passive and Aggressive. With so many emotions running amuck, will Nostalgia be able to hold the peace?
19 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 22, 2012
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About the author
Hope Barrett
19 books5 followersFormerly a reporter with the Hong Kong Standard, then freelancer for publications such as Style Magazine, Singapore Straits Times' New Paper, and the South China Morning Post, Hope Barrett moved to the west coast of Canada, where she took up the mantle of publisher for five years with the comic anthology OH... The downturn in the comic industry in the mid 90s ensured that such megalomania was punished with a dose of penury.
What the author did with the next decade of her life is now forming a part of North Door 37 Publishing's collection. Unless, of course, it is a murder mystery. Then we're talking fiction.
What the author did with the next decade of her life is now forming a part of North Door 37 Publishing's collection. Unless, of course, it is a murder mystery. Then we're talking fiction.
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November 25, 2012
This short story was started at the beginning of 2012. To all appearances, looking like it was headed in the direction of a dirge. And then one morning something changed. In dealing with the question: where should it go from here? — it decided to create life-forms of its own: Grief, Despair and Denial. After introducing themselves in black leather jackets and Harleys, the story stalled.
Things were going from bad to worse...
It needs some levity, I thought.
And then it stalled again.
I gave up.
I shelved it and worked on something else that needed completion. Forget Heels! made it to the finish line in August of 2012. Hallelujiah.
This November (2012), while working on the diversion, Deceit, I hit a bump. Not again?!? I went in search of the cats. Nope, no inspiration there. So I went into my cyber file and revisited other projects that I might finish and came across the Diabolical file. Nah! But everything else offered up "Stop Work" signs. I clicked on Diabolical to see where it was at...
I found myself laughing. It said to me: here is how it finishes. So I did.
It is probably one of my favourite stories.
Things were going from bad to worse...
It needs some levity, I thought.
And then it stalled again.
I gave up.
I shelved it and worked on something else that needed completion. Forget Heels! made it to the finish line in August of 2012. Hallelujiah.
This November (2012), while working on the diversion, Deceit, I hit a bump. Not again?!? I went in search of the cats. Nope, no inspiration there. So I went into my cyber file and revisited other projects that I might finish and came across the Diabolical file. Nah! But everything else offered up "Stop Work" signs. I clicked on Diabolical to see where it was at...
I found myself laughing. It said to me: here is how it finishes. So I did.
It is probably one of my favourite stories.
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