Read the Unpublished Horse Voice Story, "One of the Living"... · 4:28pm Sep 10th, 2015
Having picked away at it over the course of several months, I have finally realized I can't hack this one. It's not that it's impossible to round out the character of Flash Sentry, (it's been done here and here). I can't figure out what the theme is, and that's deadly on its own. Almost as bad is that it reads too much like, well, fan fiction: In front of a more interesting backdrop, two characters have the conversation that fans wish they would have in the canon. That's all well and good, but it's just not my thing.
Or maybe I just can't write post-apocalyptica. This is my second attempt this year, and I didn't even mention the first, because it was so awful. What a twist.
It's a pity, really--I'm proud of some parts of this story, especially the opening scene and a background detail involving a mountain, (you'll know it when you see it) but to make the cut for the Horse Voice bibliography, a story must either be fun, or have something important to say.
So I've provided the above link for the sake of readers' curiosity. I hope it will at least amuse the curious.
Well, for what it's worth, I enjoyed it.
For what its worth I liked that a hell of a lot. That was fantastic.
It's okay Flash, I too would greet people in Post-apocalyptica by asking if they had cigarettes. I would share my luckies with you