Excerpt from Mortals As They Walk
Excerpt from Markus McDowell’s 2020 SF novel, Mortals As They Walk.
WIP: historical fiction novel
In my novel, To and Fro Upon the Earth, there was a scene that took place at a café in a little desert town. The place is not fictional, though it is now deserted for the most part. A reader asked me the story behind the little town, and though I had done research on its…
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Read a free excerpt from McDowell’s 2020 novel, Mortals As They Walk.
Exclusive: Alternative scene Mortals As They Walk
Here was the first draft of the chapter entitled “August 2021 – January 2022” that was later rewritten from scratch. If you’ve read the novel, you’ll see the problems. (I did not double-check my French, either, so…) The pub was dark and cold. It reeked of body odor, alcohol, and urine. I had never been…
Unused scene from To and Fro Upon the Earth: A Novel
This scene was not in the published version. I felt it was too descriptive—the reader already knows how Jay feels, no reason to spell it out so obviously. Narrative Scene 27 My life living in a little room alone exhausting days at sea take-out food at night on one cares there is no future where…
Mortals As They Walk (alternate ending)
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Exclusive: Unused scene from Mortals As They Walk
Author’s note: In very early drafts, before the first draft was completed, Pate’s character (the protagonist) was quite different from the final version (at one point in the outlining, he was even a antagonist!) One of the things he did was completely change his look through surgery, diet, and exercise. This was after the failed…
Travel the World in my upcoming novel, Mortals As They Walk
The settings of my first two novels were rather restricted in terms of geography. ONESIMUS takes place primarily in ancient in Asian Minor, and then Rome itself. TO AND FRO UPON THE EARTH took place entirely in Arizona and South California.
MORTALS AS THE WAL, takes place in numerous locations in the US, GB, and Europe.
A Sneak Peak and Excerpt from my upcoming novel, Mortals As They Walk
I’m currently working on the third draft of my novel, _Mortals As They Walk_. This is a soft-SF story with some literary and contemporary fiction elements. Here is some background to the story and an excerpt.
Short Story background: Blind Anger, the Ocean, and a Fruitless Hope for Calm
We all know that anger and self-centeredness can lead to terrible consequences—far worse than we might have imagined. I do not mean the kind of “righteous” anger, which is a controlled, firm, and resolved anger on behalf of others. I mean the reactive, self-centered, emotion outburst devoid of reflection.
The third short story in my book, The Sky Over Chaos, is entitled “Three Hour and Thirteen Minutes.” It deals with a man who is so angry that both words and actions are out of control. He becomes so enraged that he no longer can think rationally or safely.