CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

This week’s short story takes us from an urban fantasy tale of nettles, teens and fairy princes to a science fiction story about the survivors of a crashed starship. Welcome to Nothing . Jerome is glad to finish the last patrol of the evening, and head in to the security of the base for the night, but, if the base is so secure, why can’t he sleep? Nothing It was dawn on the prairie. The sun rose, red-gold, in a sea of pale blue sky, and was reflected in apricots and peaches on a sea of ice-green grass. The soft morning wind did nothing to ease the winter cold from the air. Jerome watched the sun, and the prairie waking slowly beneath it. The colors of land softened the brown in his eyes, tainting it first with emerald, then with gold. He would have been horrified had he known. He had been a technician in the starship’s engine room, but now he was a soldier. He stood on a rise in the rolling prairie, the grass lapping around his knees and steaming gently...

Nothing is the Second short story to be found in An Anthology of Those Who Walk Among Us . It is also available as a stand-alone short story. Nothing is a science fiction tale in which humans and shapeshifters find themselves locked in a battle for supremacy after a colony ship crashes. Nothing is available as part of AnAnthology of Those Who Walk Among Us, and also as a stand alone title at Smashwords , Kobo , Kindle , iTunes , and Nook. First Page: Nothing   It was dawn on the prairie. The sun rose, red-gold, in a sea of pale blue sky, and was reflected in apricots and peaches on a sea of ice-green grass. The soft morning wind did nothing to ease the winter cold from the air. Jerome watched the sun, and the prairie waking slowly beneath it. The colors of land softened the brown in his eyes, tainting it first with emerald, then with gold. He would have been horrified had he known. He had been a technician in the starship’s engine room, but now he was a soldier. ...

An Anthology of Those Who Walk Among Us, the third of the Simpson Anthologies, has been released on Amazon and Smashwords. This collection of short stories is set around the theme that not everyone who appears to be human is human, that there are other races hiding amongst us, and that there might be a concrete reason why legends of shapeshifters and vampires exist. An Anthology of Those Who Walk Among Us is approximately 19,500 words in length and contains the previously published short stories:   Shadow Life ; Nothing ; Esmeralda and the Breeze ; Nurse ; Treaty Time ; and Peace Flower .

A slow week. Current Projects The following progress was made on my current projects: ·          Novella2A: Added 2,000 words. Publishing The following tasks related to publishing were completed this week: ·          Commissioned cover art for RomanceNovel1 ; ·          Updated blog 4 times ·          Formatted and uploaded Anthology3 – An Anthology of Those Who Walk Among Us . ·          Updated LinkedIn and Goodreads with An Anthology of Those Who Walk Among Us details.

Nothing is the second short story in An Anthology of Those Who Walk Among Us , the third Simpson Anthology, and it starts like this: It was dawn on the prairie. The sun rose, red-gold, in a sea of pale blue sky, and was reflected in apricots and peaches on a sea of ice-green grass. The soft morning wind did nothing to ease the winter cold from the air.   can be found in  Nothing is a science fiction tale in which humans and shapeshifters find themselves locked in a battle for supremacy after a colony ship crashes. Nothing is approximately 1,250 words in length.

Nothing has been released on Amazon and Smashwords. This short story is the second story in An Anthology of Those Who Walk Among Us . It is a science fiction tale in which humans and shapeshifters find themselves locked in a battle for supremacy after a colony ship crashes. Nothing is approximately 1,250 words in length.   can be found in An Anthology of Those Who Walk Among Us will be released in late July 2012.