News From Poughkeepsie – On Hiatus
As you may or may not have noticed, there has been no News From Poughkeepsie content this week. This will continue onto next week, but we’ll be up and running again on the 16th. Indeed, NFP shall rise like the phoenix, more beautiful and terrible than ever, outshining the very sun. Because that’s how we roll, here at ISBW. Outshining the sun.
But before NFP crawls into it’s November chrysalis, there’s some lingering October business to take care of. Namely, who one this fabulous piece of clothing?
None other than Scott Roche, for his compelling werewolf-coming-of-age story:
I sat in my chair, keeping his gaze. “I want you to think about the talk we had in the bar. You are embracing the worst of our natures instead of the best. We don’t attack the animals that belong to others. We don’t drink more than we can handle and let that cause us to be foolish. It’s bad enough that we have to be here, we don’t have to give them the satisfaction of knowing that they’re right.” I nodded east in the general direction of what passed for civilizaiton.
The anger turned to petulance. “Yer tha one denyin’ who ya are Doc. Tha wolf takes what it wants and so do real men.”
I took a deep breath. It wasn’t the first time I had heard this sort of talk. Plenty of our young men were angry. They came here without family, without any resources, and banded together, teaching each other the ways of life. “Is that right? Tell me Zach, would your father approve of this?” I gestured encompassing his appearance.
“Ah Doc you know I didn’t know my father.” He looked at the clean pine floor
Scott’s also basing his NaNoWriMo novel on his continuation of another NFP prompt, which tickles me to no end. Anyone else doing this?
About the Author: Jared Axelrod is an author, an illustrator, a graphic designer, a sculptor, a costume designer, a podcaster and quite a few other things that he's lost track of but will no doubt remember when the situation calls for it.
