[Blog Tour] [Guest Post] Wild Horse by Kyle Richardson

WILD HORSE (a novelette) by Kyle Richardson

EBOOK RELEASE DATE: 7/30/19

Dystopian, Superhero, YA, Novelette

BOOK PAGE: https://www.meerkatpress.com/books/wild-horse/
 
Grady has found a crack in the wall—a crack to the outside world. But all he knows about life outside the compound comes from books, magazines, and a photograph of a creature that no longer exists. Things change when he meets a girl with raspberry-yellow hair, and a secret that could lead them to a world beyond the walls. A world where their abilities could change everything … or lead them both to ruin. 

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Guest Post

Experimental Lightning

Some stories come to authors like a bolt of lightning: they streak across the mind in a dazzling burst, leaving behind a path of scorched neurons, glittering fractal scars, and a feverish need to write it all down before any of it fades away.

Others are sewn together like a mad scientist’s experiment: every part laboriously pieced from the husks of other stories. A plot twist here. A character there. A stilled heart that needs just one more jolt of electricity before it’ll finally beat again.

Wild Horse was a little bit of both. It started with two characters whom I already knew, though the storyworld they inhabited was one that I didn’t. Soon, they took on a life of their own—their names changed, their personalities altered, they became stubborn whenever I tried to force their hands. At one point I stopped trying to control them and simply … followed them across the page. They connected. They argued. They spoke between the words. And a whole battered world sprang up around them, one with its own grim set of rules.

The end result was a story that’s brief in stature but large in scope—one that, hopefully, lingers in the reader’s mind even after that last line has been read. Like a lone tree smoldering in an empty field, or fresh stitches on a body that’s shuddering back to life—some things, I find, are worth pondering further.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Kyle lives in the suburban wilds of Canada with his adorable wife, their rambunctious son, and their adventurous daughter. He writes about shapeshifters, superheroes, and the occasional clockwork beast, moonlights as an editor at Meerkat Press, and has a terrible habit of saying the wrong thing at the most inopportune moments. His short fiction has appeared in places such as Love Hurts: A Speculative Fiction Anthology and Daily Science Fiction.

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