CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

The stand-alone edition of the novelette, The Lost Kings , released TODAY, and is now available for purchase. It can be found individually at any of the platforms on this Books2Read link , and it can be found as one of the stories in: A Collection of Battle and its Aftermath. For those of you wondering what it's all about. Well... The Short Version: It's about secrets, intrigue and family in the fantastical world of Entalamorn. The Longer Version: A city under siege. A dragon under cover. Five kings lost to time. And two orphans running for their lives. Hunted by invaders, Valan races to find his sister before those seeking them. What is it about their past that has an entire army wanting them dead? And who sent it? Can Valan find the only family he has, and escape before the sins of their unknown fathers come to rest upon their shoulders? How It Begins: Valan kept his head down, keeping below the top of the low, stone wall as he moved to get closer to the docks. It wasn’t ...

I've decided to celebrate each release with a series of extracts that run for the month it's released in. This month saw the second edition of 366 Days of Flash Fiction released. Links to the collection can be found at Books2Read at: https://books2read.com/u/b6MrN0 . Today's extract is: Natalia’s Run Written on October 17, 2015, for the March 7 entry of 366 Days of Flash Fiction , this piece is another one set in Tescher’s world. Natalia found comfort in the swish of the walking skirt, the solid crunch of her leather heels on sand and pebbles. She found comfort in the way her hat covered her head and shaded her shoulders, in the manner in which its veil kept the flies out of her eyes. What she did not find comfort in were the short bursts of movement she could hear on either side. The hurried scrunch of twigs and rattle of undergrowth. The pad-pad-pad of two-legged predators pacing either side was both furtive and deliberately provocative. If the raptors wanted to ...