Last Saturday my family and I got together to celebrate my imminent (tomorrow) 40th birthday. A great time was had by all, and my lovely wife Tracey gave me two nice surprises that evening (hush at the back). The first was this fantastic cake, based on my Necessary Evil Press novella Pieces of Hate. How bloody awesome is this!? It’s so great I didn’t want to cut it …. but then she told me it was chocolate cake, and the rest is history.
The other nice surprise was a lovely new 32inch LG widescreen LCD TV. It’s scorching, and yesterday afternoon, hangover haze just starting to fade, us and the kids sat down to watch War of the Worlds.
A great weekend.
October 13th, 2000 • Posted in
Extracts |
Gabriel dreamed of the last time he was truly alive.
After all he had been through – the exotic places, the violent encounters, the disappointments and victories – this memory should have been a bland speck in his seas of experiences. There was just him, and some trees, and the man with a snake in his eye. But the image was important, because it was the last time he could remember having any sense of excitement or hope for the future. Then he had been a man with a family; now, he was barely even a man. It stood out from all his other memories as the moment when his soul had been corrupted by three simple words:
Feed your hate. Read the rest of this entry »
October 12th, 1999 • Posted in
Novellas |
Published: Necessary Evil Press, 2005
Availability:
- Limited Edition Pb (publisher sold out; try specialist dealers)
- Lettered Edition Cased Hb (publisher sold out; try specialist dealers)
For centuries Gabriel has been pursuing the assassin Temple, part-demon, part-man, seeking revenge for the slaughter of his family. Read the rest of this entry »
