Innocent Bystanders
by Alexander Bryant
Price: $0.99 USD. 8480 words.
Published on December 19, 2010. Fiction.
What do you do when super heroes and their arch foes battle it out in your home town? Give us a call here at The Agency. Our crack squads are standing by to impersonate your mothers, your grandmothers and their little dogs, too. Let those costumed superfreaks smash OUR Agency's cars to pieces and burn down OUR buildings!
Cover design by Richard Nicholas a.k.a. blank_mange (Deviant Art website).
Location: United States
Member Since: Nov. 25, 2010
Alexander Bryant
Biography
You wake and there is something wrong with the world
As there is every day.
Your life is nowhere.
You buy but it doesn’t help.
You travel but have to come back,
Have to always come back.
There are children, but you watch with unease
As they grow into what you have become.
You wanted them to be normal
And after all,
After everything,
They are heart-breakingly normal.
Every once in a while you catch a glimpse of something else:
A rush of speed,
The ding of comprehension,
Music that plays your chords.
Reality offers a look behind the curtain.
The curtain flutters.
The curtain settles back.
Is this all we are?
No,
It is worse than you think.
As there is every day.
Your life is nowhere.
You buy but it doesn’t help.
You travel but have to come back,
Have to always come back.
There are children, but you watch with unease
As they grow into what you have become.
You wanted them to be normal
And after all,
After everything,
They are heart-breakingly normal.
Every once in a while you catch a glimpse of something else:
A rush of speed,
The ding of comprehension,
Music that plays your chords.
Reality offers a look behind the curtain.
The curtain flutters.
The curtain settles back.
Is this all we are?
No,
It is worse than you think.
Where to find Alexander Bryant online
Website: http://www.thetamelinlight.com
Twitter: tamelinlight
Twitter: tamelinlight
- TamelinLight: Harbor Steps is in an enviable location across from SAM right on the Steps. Hotel is in basement though, which is weird (rest are condos).
- TamelinLight: Spent over an hour strolling streets of Seattle at night. Interesting idea occurred to me at Federal Building: heading into Book II.
- TamelinLight: Author is spending the night at the Harbor Steps tonight (where Talitha Tamelin, the protagonist, lives). Stay tuned for report!
- TamelinLight: "Colder, The Movie" script entered into PNWA writing contest. 28 pages of "The Tamelin Light" entered in same contest in another category.
- TamelinLight: RT @YSDC: Home Decor for the Cultist who has everything. http://is.gd/nkIZMc
Where to buy in print
Books
Colder
by Alexander Bryant
Price: $9.99 USD. 85610 words. Published on November 30, 2010. Fiction.
What do you do if the Great Old Ones you don't believe in keep harassing you? And then the FBI gets involved? Talitha, a scientist, is a member of the Tamelins, a line connected to a Great Old One named Ithaqua through Outer God Nyarlathotep. She must reconcile her empiric view of the world with her genetically-altered, ancient Family, the Feds, True Humans and the Enemy: followers of Cthulhu.
Price: $9.99 USD. 85610 words. Published on November 30, 2010. Fiction.
What do you do if the Great Old Ones you don't believe in keep harassing you? And then the FBI gets involved? Talitha, a scientist, is a member of the Tamelins, a line connected to a Great Old One named Ithaqua through Outer God Nyarlathotep. She must reconcile her empiric view of the world with her genetically-altered, ancient Family, the Feds, True Humans and the Enemy: followers of Cthulhu.