The Seeing Stone: Chapter 1, Part 1
[Note: This is the beginning of a novel I abandoned many years ago. I worked on it, off and on, for over fifteen years and it never got any better. I have notebooks full of backstory, history and characterizations, along with maps, sketches and unfinished scenes. Why dredge it up now? Well, I guess I felt sorry for it, sitting there alone for so many years. A story is meant to be heard, even a bad story. This one is full of clichés, melodrama, and too much exposition,...
