Posts Tagged ‘toris-row’

Time to wake up, Tori.

// January 24th, 2011 // 1 Comment » // Blog

Sunset over the Charles River, Boston area. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jainsama/5351160288/

Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jainsama/5351160288/

Tori and her fellow characters in the paranormal thriller Tori’s Row have had a long, long nap. That’s because life intervened for MCM and me, so the 18 chapters we’d written have been waiting for an ending.

At long last MCM and I are banging out the last nine chapters. We plan to have them ready in early March. For now you may want to check out the first two-thirds of Tori’s Row. It’s free! Here’s the blurb.

Tori McNulty has problems. As she’s putting her life back together, she’s attacked in Boston’s South End. She doesn’t remember much: mostly blood-drenched pavement and the crumpled body of her assailant. The good news is that she’s uninjured and not a murder suspect. The bad news is the obnoxious young man in 18th century dress shadowing her and confusing, violent flashbacks. Tori must figure out what happened that night before her stalker gets to her or she goes completely mad.

If you’d like a little more of a taste, check out this short bit of flash fiction I wrote last year. It’s a teeny bit spoilery.

Since this is just barely Tori’s Row-related, I’ll take this opportunity to pimp the most recent Strandline episode. It’s related because I’m taking a brief break from Strandline to finish up Tori’s Row. Episode 19 of Strandline will go live on February 4th.

Anyhoo, episode 18 of Strandline begins thusly.

The schooner’s patchwork sails marked it as one of the Greenmen’s ships just as much as the green man stenciled on the prow. Although Petra had no idea why Naveen was sprinting straight toward it, letting him get near a crew of witches couldn’t end well. Without breaking stride she hurled a verbal and psychic command at him: “Naveen, sleep!”

Naveen slowed, shook his head, then kept running. He was closing on the ship’s gangplank fast.

Read the rest, or start with episode 1.

Friday Flash: Holiday

// April 30th, 2010 // No Comments » // Blog

Edmund dangled his legs over edge of the roof of the Old State House. Despite his white breeches, however mud-splattered, against red brick, no one noticed him kicking his legs, the Yanks’ artificial lights glinting off of his shoe buckles.

He could hardly contain his glee. It was March 5th, Edmund’s favorite day of the year. Soon they’d come: modern-day men and women–as if the King would’ve let birds serve–playing make-believe. Some dressed as the rag-tag colonists who’d surrounded him and his comrades. Others wore chintzy versions of his scarlet uniform. They’d be cheap and the details wrong, but their red coats were clean. He’d tried to scrub the blood and filth off his, Lord knew.

He’d run through them and they’d exclaim from the cold, and maybe, just maybe, one might hear him. God willin’, let one hear him. He was so bloody bored with American Idol.


March 5th is the anniversary of the Boston Massacre, which took place in 1770 in front of the Old State House.

Edmund is a character in my and MCM‘s paranormal thriller Tori’s Row.