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Excerpt From the Book - Rage Matters | Chapter 2
Susan checked her messages after her last class. One was from her mother asking her to come straight home after school for a surprise. She didn’t like surprises. In her experience, they usually sucked. This surprise would suck. Oh my God, it would suck so much more than anything she could have ever imagined.
What Motivated Me to Write | The Pursuit 2
The Pursuit began as a Kindle Vella project. For those that aren’t familiar, Kindle Vella is a modern-day version of the way folks used to read novels during the turn of the century. Authors released serialized versions of stories in newspapers and magazines one episode at a time to hook readers into coming back for more.
The motivation for writing The Pursuit 2 came as I was creating the third episode of the Kindle Vella series. I caught myself focusing more and more on one character. By then, though, I had totally lost interest in the whole Vella thing and decided I’d end it at the Amazon-required minimum installments.
The Pursuit 2 revolves around an assassin duo who hunts down and takes revenge on a group of misfits who brutally murdered a friend and colleague. Fast-paced interconnected side stories feed into the central theme as the climax builds. It gets very twisty towards the end, but I think it reads well. Of course, that’s my slightly biased opinion. At just 181 pages, it’s a quick read.
Note that Amazon has discontinued the Kindle Vella platform.
Scene from the book | Retribution
So this was a really important scene. If there are any prologue skippers in the crowd, you may not want to skip this one. This is the scene that set the stage for the entire story. In fact, it was the vision of the room which prompted to me to write the story. This is Shawn’s bedroom. It was an unusually dark night. There was a monster storm outside that had knocked out the electricity. The lightning felt so close she sometimes thought it was in the room with them. She looked up as a bolt came blasting through a window and she thought for sure it hit her. As she glimpsed herself in a mirror, she noticed all the blood on her clothes. She looked back to see Shawn on the bed, engulfed in lightning. But she didn’t care. She was there on a mission, and the manner in which Shawn died wasn’t of concern.
What I’m not showing here is the mental state of the woman at the window. Nor do I explain why she’s there. I, of course, won’t tell you who she is. If you’ve seen excerpts on other areas of the site and think you know, you’re probably wrong.
I enjoyed writing this scene. I had put it off for a while because I was busy with other projects. Once I started, it was easy to bust out the first few chapters. If you get a copy of the book, don’t skip the prologue, or you won’t get the ending.