Neurogarden by Bryon Vaughn an Interview
Give a warm welcome to Bryon Vaughn, Author of Neurogarden. Pull up a chair, grab a drink of your choice from the cooler, a Chocolate Chip or Peanut Butter cookie from the plate. Psstt.. don’t forget to enter the Rafflecopter at the end of ttis post. Let’s find out a little about Bryon and his Science Fiction, techno-thriller.
What are four things you can’t live without?
Like most people, I am attached to my mobile phone. I can’t imagine life without it. Since my life revolves around computing, I would also have to say my MacBook Pro, though any computer would do. I absolutely must have paper notebooks and a good pen. Sure, I can take notes on a computer, but it just doesn’t feel like it matters unless I write it with my own hand, plus it is a pain in the ass to sketch or scribble with a keyboard or a trackpad.
Finally, though I don’t consider them to be things, I would we lost without my family. They are my touchstones to reality, and always keep me grounded and focused on what is truly important. In fact, despite what I said earlier, I could actually do without all of those things as long as I had them.
What is your favorite television show?
With streaming, I just watch whatever shows up in the lists, but I can say the last show that I remember being must-watch appointment television was Dexter. I adore that show, and despite the main character being a sociopathic serial killer, I think I identified with Dexter more than any other character that I can recall.
If you could be any character, from any literary work, who would you choose to be? Why?
I’m sure if you asked me this question every day for the next week, my answer would change, but in the moment, I would say I would like to be Guy Montag from Fahrenheit 451. He was a simple man, incurious, and good at his job, which sadly was burning books. What makes him so interesting to me is how he comes to love the very thing that he is trained to destroy. In this day and age where books can be found in boxes on the side of the street, discarded to make room for a new television, or some other electronic device, it is inspiring to picture a place where people would risk their lives to protect the written word.
What have you got coming soon for us to look out for?
Neurogarden is the first book in the NeuralTech Corporation series. Book two is well underway, and the working title is Necrogarden. The world has taken a dark turn, and the stakes are even higher in the second book. I can’t wait to hear what readers will think of this one.
What books or authors have most influenced your own writing?
I read a lot of different genres, and while I tend toward science fiction and horror, I also like the literary classics. I studied English at U.C. Berkeley, so I have a foundation in the canon, such as Shakespeare, Joyce, Milton, but I also like more modern classic authors such as Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood.
As for influence on my own writing, I would say that I draw from writers like Clive Barker, William Gibson, and maybe a little Blake Crouch.
Now tell us a little about Neurogarden.
Where can you run when there is no place to hide?
Brenna Patrick is a brilliant technologist specializing in neural-cognitive functions and AI. She has cracked the code to solve one of the most troublesome problems in the field, and turned that into the multi-billion dollar NeuralTech Corporation.
Working quietly with the U.S. Department of Defense, NeuralTech is poised to leapfrog the competition with a revolutionary system for tracking people, starting with the world’s most wanted terrorists. But there are only so many terrorists in the world, so who’s next?
When a pair of Columbia graduate students, Jenny and Leo, stumble on the dark secret of NeuralTech’s success, it kicks off a tense game of cat and mouse. As they fight to defeat the powerful forces arrayed against them, nothing less than the fate of humanity hangs in the balance…
NEUROGARDEN is a roller-coaster ride of a thriller, one that will have readers pondering the nature of memory, and of reality, long after they’ve read the last page.
How about a sneak peek between the pages of Neurogarden?
Halfway through her coffee, Brenna’s usual routine of morning news about the weather or the latest political storm was interrupted by a story on the previous day’s event at NeuralTech.
“According to sources, yesterday, in an impressive display of technical wizardry, the notorious Ethiopian strongman, Azim Dibaba, was eliminated by the U.S. military in partnership with NeuralTech. Stay tuned for exclusive video footage from the NeuralTech facility coming up after the break.”
With a dismissive wave of her hand, the television powered off, and she downed the last of her coffee. Explicit rules about keeping cameras from the Observation Deck were put in place to stop this kind of leaked footage, not so much to keep it a secret, but to control how the message was released. There was no way NeuralTech would have built such an elaborate display of lights and gadgetry if the world was never going to see what they were doing. The fanfare was all a show, a carnival for the masses to distract from the visceral heart of what they were witnessing. Hell, they used to run the ops from a small conference room in the basement of NeuralTech HQ with two laptops and an iPad. The spectacle was created for virality, but she wanted the first glimpses to be better than some shaky cell phone video from a reporter behind glass.
Buy Links:
Amazon Buy Link: https://www.amazon.com/Neurogarden-NeuralTech-Corporation-Book-1-ebook/dp/B08F7BWCDZ
About the author:
Ever since reading Douglas Adams back in my formative years, I have had an interesting relationship with humor, science fiction, and technology. My first computer was a TI-99/4A, so yeah, I’m old, but only until scientists have cracked the code on transplanting our brains into shiny new vessels.
My body may be showing signs of wear, but I’m keeping my brain tight.
When I am not dreaming of far off worlds and writing, I am living a semi-normal life working in New York City, and watching movies with my wife and her spastic cat, Moss.
Social Media Links
Web site: https://www.bryonvaughn.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/bryonvaughnauthor
Instagram: https://instagram.com/bryonvaughn
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bryonvaughn
It’s been great having you with us today. Good luck with Neurogarden!
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Interview with Hawk MacKinney Author of Inanna Phantom
Give a warm welcome to Hawk MacKinney author of Inanna Phantom. Pssst… Don’t forget to enter the Rafflecopter.
Pull up a chair, grab a drink of your choice from the cooler, a Chocolate Chip or Peanut Butter cookie from the plate, and let’s find out a little about Hawk and Inanna Phantom. First up Hawk!
What defines you as an author? Languages-linguistics, the origins of spoken sounds, syntax & how it reflects cultures.
As a person? The fundamentals of a solid grounding, a culture before the artificial (i.e. `toys’) blurred those values.
Are they one in the same? Definitely not.
What inspired this particular story? Preparing and planting a flower bed.
What disgusts you or makes you angry? Hearing someone use lazy as an excuse to fail & not considering the consequences of selfish decisions on others.
Why did you choose the cover concept you did? I didn’t. I sometimes offer suggestions, but I never question my marketing team or the graphic artists and designers of my titles. The graphic artists are part of that very honest reliable successful team.
Tell us something about yourself and allow us to get to know you. I hold postgraduate degrees with studies in languages & history, & I have taught postgraduate courses in the United States & Jerusalem, Israel. I am noted for using unique “Southron” dialog, especially the origins and derivation of the vocabularies and languages in the South to give distinction to my characters without the use of tags. This “Southron” speak is something I was raised on.
What secret do you use to blast through writer’s block? I’ve never experience it – I don’t understand it. I have too many tales yet to tell.
What inspired you to write? The love of the written word – the King’s English properly spoken is a beautiful language – & then I enjoy breaking the rules.
Do you see yourself in your characters? I would say that most of my characters reflect a part of me, and this is true of most writers.
What do you want your readers to take away from your books? A jolly good time of trying to outguess the writer – many readers like doing that.
Where do your story ideas come from? Everywhere-anything – setting, plot, dialogues – the whole basket, and a lot of people-watching. If they come to you in the middle of the night, do you get up and write them all down?
Do you find it easier to write from a male or female point of view? Female
Why? Makes me explore all manner of cobwebs between my ears while I people-watch.
If writing is your first passion, what is your second? Reading – maybe that’s #1.
What do you like to do when you are not writing? Read – walk through the backwoods.
You’ve got a time machine, a cloak of invisibility, and one hour. Where would you go, and what eavesdropping would you do? Versailles – Louis XVI – but ONLY for an hour – OR less.
What’s your favorite part of being an author? The whole smear – spinning the tale, editing, drawing characters, mixing settings-cultures-languages, breaking words/grammar/syntax to color dialects. And then marketing my published books; having the opportunity to interact with my readers.
Any tips to share with fellow authors/aspiring authors? What’s the best advice you’ve ever heard? Never quit UNLESS you don’t want to write.
SPEED ROUND FOR A LITTLE ADDED FUN:
Speed Round (one word only answer): Yep, I know torture for a writer! <evil laugh>
<No torture – it’s part of the magic-FUN of writing…single words are marvelous grammar-edits to get rid of wordy clutter.>
Favorite movie: Forbidden Planet
Favorite book: Midway
Last book read: Napoleon/Jefferson Davis – more than 1bk at a time
Favorite color: blue
Stilettos or flipflops: barefoot
Coffee or tea: a.m. – coffee/afternoon & later – tea
Ebook or audiobook or paperback: paperback
Pencil or pen: pen
Favorite song: Má vlast – Vltava
Favorite dessert: crème brûlée
Favorite junk food: fatback
Favorite thing to do to relax: read on the porch swing
Champagne or gin: neither
Paranormal or Historical: historical [often> the same]
Wonder Woman or Top Model: neither
Favorite TV show: Walter Cronkite
Hot or cold: both
POV: I’d die if I don’t have: peace of mind
Review or Not: review
3D illustration. Sci-Fi futuristic abstract gradient blue violet pink neon. A glowing corridor on the reflection of the concrete floor. A dark interior room.
Tell us a little about Inanna Phantom.
The threat of rift invasions seem long passed. Plentiful harvests abound. The Murian first-contact Terato Outpost has grown into the sprawling Terato-Murian Terminus Terato with a hub of relay portals reaching across the vast uncharted galactic expanses and connecting with its eon-extinct Lantaraan prehistory.
An exploratory Terato-Murian Jupiterr outpost is established on the gas giant seventh planet, and its quantum and gravitational energies are used to power outpost portals for an archeological survey of the fourth planet, Eorthe.
The Lantaraan database aboard Terato’s ancient Downday moon shows that one or more planets of the Solaris planets have apparently been lost. Expanded archeological records on other Lantaraan orbital bodies in the Solaris system show the fourth planet from the star—Eorthe—to be a sterile wasteland. Except it is not. Eorthe’s civilization is not to the level of the Murian Empire, but it is far advanced to those of a pastoral Terato. Terato and Eorthe form the confederated United Terran League under the nominal figurehead leader of League High Judikarr Eklam a’Qoc.
Jupiterr outpost expands into a major League stronghold, Jupiterr Base, when civil unrest erupts in the League, the unexpected return of rift intrusions threatens, and the Murian Emperor Klarvko Celo is assassinated.
As they prepare for confrontations with an unknown ancient enemy, the internal tensions on Myr and Eorthe push Murians and Teratoans to dangerous discords.
How about a sneak peek between the pages of Inanna Phantom.
The first anomalies were logged by remote nanoparticle quantum-field sensor arrays positioned on uninhabited dwarf planets, moons and long-orbit asteroids of the star systems of the League. The inconsistencies were short sub-fracture durations and were seismically unremarkable. Across the League’s far-flung frontier systems, seasoned operators monitored the encoded decryption of the scan-logs. Through decades of use, the linknet had become indispensable; supplanting the slower interstellar particle entanglement-based trans-light travel. Linknet protocols established allowances for such random background fluctuations with standard deviations measured against system parameters. The diverse configurations of the link systems were accepted as fail-safe.
Senior specialists assigned to Terminus Terra II protocol-consoles maintained continuous scans for minor time-sync misaligns. Scan records were stored in Murian-designed crystals in tiered sublevels of mantle crust beneath Terminus and in Myraa City. Link schedules of freight shipments, personnel, and communications remained on tight schedules.
The erratic anomalous spacetime oscillations data was logged. The ruse was almost perfect. Except star-core substrate logs registered converter power for the unsanctioned personnel requisition of translinks coordinates for specific network portals. It was a simple oversight but one that had sa s’Blikova’at consequences. Besides, waiting one more day wouldn’t matter.
The following morning Marleen and her three sons would be alone.
About the author.
Hawk has authored several works of fiction including a historical romance Moccasin Trace which was nominated for both the prestigious Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Writers Notes Book Award. His Cairns of Sainctuarie Science Fiction Series and his Moccasin Hollow Mystery Series have received national and international attention.
With postgraduate degrees and faculty positions in several medical universities, Hawk MacKinney has taught graduate courses in both the United States and Jerusalem. His professional writing includes articles on chordate neuroembryology, and aerospace research on muscle metabolic behavior in multi-orbital environments.
Book Video: https://youtu.be/MUnhN8U0Zp0
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ HawkMacKinney
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/698008.Hawk_MacKinney
Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Inanna-Phantom-Cairns-Sainctuarie-Book-ebook/dp/B07Y2DQRT3/ref=sr_1_1
Barnes&Noble.com: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/inanna-phantom-hawk-mackinney/1133914447?ean=9781732918252
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER:
Hawk MacKinney will be awarding a $20 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
It was wonderful having you with us today. Please feel free to stop by anytime. Good Luck with Inanna Phantom!
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Spooktacular Vampire Detective Midnight by JC Andrijeski
Give a Spooktacular welcome to jC Andrijeski author of Vampire Detective Midnight. Pull up a chair, grab a drink of your choice from the cauldron. Take your choice of a bat wing Chocolate Chip or Pumpkin, or Peanut Butter cookie from the plate, and let’s find out a little about JC and Vampire Detective Midnight. But first the Spooktacular Guest Blog.
chest… I MISSED HALLOWEEN, lol.
Thanksgiving… Talk Like A Pirate Day.
of my favorite holidays.
States in July. This was after spending almost five years living in Thailand,
with another few years in India prior to that.
just doesn’t translate, even if, like in Thailand, they like to celebrate it,
at least in the big cities where a lot of foreigners live.
is pretty much the epitome of that, they had Halloween-themed movie nights,
Halloween decorations in the malls (there are a LOT of malls in Bangkok),
Halloween-themed bar nights (a LOT of Halloween-themed bar nights… Bangkok
likes its bars), costume parties thrown by foreigners living there and some of
the consulates… Halloween music in the coffee shops.
same.
Fahrenheit year-round in Bangkok, with roughly 80-90 percent humidity. That
doesn’t flex all that much, although there are seasons in Bangkok. There’s the
super-duper, crazy hot season that runs roughly from April to June, where it
goes up to the high nineties, and even into the one-hundreds. There’s the
wetter seasons, the “hot” and “cold” monsoons, where it rains a lot and the
city floods. But it never really cools down. “Cold” Monsoon is just slightly
cooler than the one at the end of the hot dry season.
November to February, is heavenly if you live there – but it’s still like high
eighties to low nineties, which is, yeah, still hot.
the average Westerner, isn’t much fun. A lot of living in Thailand is hopping
from one air-conditioned enclave to another. I’m a big walker / outdoorsy
person, and even I needed a lot of breaks from being outside.
novelty for Thais, and fun for them, it’s really not a part of their culture,
so it’s not celebrated by most families. Thai kids don’t trick or treat… it’s
not a thing there (although I did give out candy in my building). Horror movies
are huge in Thailand, especially for teens, but that’s kind of a year-round
thing, and even teenagers don’t care all that much about Halloween as a
separate thing.
doorsteps, no scarecrows or other weird, macabre decorations on front porches
or in yards, no dads making dorky attempts to scare kids, no haunted houses, no
leaves changing colors, no big street parties like there were in San Francisco
when I lived there. And yeah, because there’s no trick or treating, there’s
also no roving bands of kids in crazy-cute costumes, jacked out of their minds
on intense sugar and chocolate rushes.
my first REAL Halloween since 2013.
possibilities, now that I’m living in Los Angeles. Part of me is tempted to go
all-out and do a Disneyland Halloween, or one at one of the other nearby
amusement parks, since all of them seem to have big, fun Halloween blowouts.
whatever costume I pull out at the last minute, whichever friends of mine I
drag out for a night of fun, I’m here for it! There’s nothing like a few years
in a foreign country to make you miss the little things of home.
spooky, dorky, sugary, costume-y, autumn-y, pumpkin-y, and haunted-house-filled
Halloween, as well! 🙂
as a “Midnight,” or vampire in the employ of the human police. Like all state-reg’d vamps, he gets his food delivered to his door, lives in government
housing, and basically can’t sneeze without the U.S. government knowing about it.
to be left alone, to endure his immortality in peace, but he’s barely in New
York two weeks when things start to go sideways.
shouldn’t exist at all, and a possible conspiracy involving the richest humans
in New York.
effect on him.
pretty sure he’ll end up forcibly reprogrammed by his human owners––assuming
they don’t just rip his heart out of his chest and be done with it.
A sneak peek between the pages of Vampire Detective Midnight
He needed to feed.
It was putting him in a foul mood.
That, and all this fucking blood…
Nick frowned, staring around at the alley floor.
It hit him again.
There was something wrong with this blood.
It smelled too fucking good.
It smelled way too fucking good.
That couldn’t all be Nick’s hunger.
“Anyway, that’s what I can tell you so far,” he said, making his voice deliberately casual. “Without knowing who the victims are, or what brought them to this alley, it’s pretty hard to speculate on motive, but…”
Nick hesitated then, realizing something.
Frowning, he stepped closer to the pools of blood.
Nose wrinkling, he crouched down so he could smell it from closer, even though the scent was overpowering, even from a lot further away. Taking a few full whiffs, he felt his fangs begin to extend in earnest.
That time, he couldn’t pull it back.
A flush of heat hit his gut and chest, burning in his throat. It was intense enough, he almost got hard, but he’d gotten pretty good at squelching that reaction, too.
He stood up at once.
Really, he lurched back.
It happened so fast, that smell and his reaction to it, Nick forgot to modulate his body’s natural reflexes to accommodate the people around him. He was up and moving in a heartbeat, darting back in pure instinct, without slowing his movements at all.
He moved fast enough to make the humans around him freeze.
Instantly, they turned into prey.
Ignoring them, and ignoring their deer-in-headlights reactions to how he’d just moved, Nick backed away from the pool of blood with a scowl.
He backed away from the human detectives and tech team, too.
“They’re hybrids,” he said, emotion reaching his voice.
He turned around, staring at the humans sharing the alley with him.
The stared back at him, faces blank, eyes holding flickers of fear.
Frustrated, wanting to smash through that frozen prey look, Nick let his voice turn into a harder growl.
“Jesus fucking Christ,” Nick said. “Did you hear me? They’re all fucking hybrids.”
When they still didn’t speak, he averted his gaze with a scowl. His eyes returned to the alley. Staring around at all of that blood, it sank in what it really represented.
Once it had, he couldn’t help but feel sick.
WALL STREET JOURNAL bestselling author who writes paranormal mysteries and
apocalyptic fiction, often with a sexy, romantic and metaphysical bent. JC has
a background in journalism, history and politics, and loves martial arts, yoga,
meditation, hiking, swimming, horseback riding, painting… and of course reading
and writing. She grew up in the Bay Area of California, but travels extensively
and has lived abroad in Europe, Australia and Asia, and from coast to coast in
the continental United States. She currently lives and writes full-time in
Bangkok, Thailand.
Detective Midnight, the Bridge & Sword series, the Quentin Black Mystery
series, The Morph series, and the Alien Apocalypse series. She’s also written a
number of standalone novels, novellas and short stories, as well as nonfiction
articles and essays.
writing, please visit
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jcandrijeski
It was Spooktacular having you with us today. Please feel free to stop by anytime. Good Luck with Vampire Detective Midnight!
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Interview Jim & Stephanie Kruepfl Authors of Merged
Give a warm welcome to Jim and Stephanie Kruepfl, authors of Merged just released September 17, 2019. Pssst… don’t forget to enter the Rafflecopter at the bottom of this post.
Tell us something about yourself and allow us to get to know you.
We are a husband-and-wife writing team, which admittedly took a little time to learn how to accomplish. The key was to let go of our egos and learn to rely on each of our strengths. Now, we can edit each other’s work to the point where we no longer remember who wrote what. We used to work in corporate jobs in Denver and a few years ago finally decided to follow our dreams. We moved to a tiny town at the edge of Rocky Mountain National Park so we could live in the beauty of the Colorado Rockies and better focus on writing our novels. We have a rescue dog, Finn, who quickly learned to run away from moose. “Merged” is our first published novel, and we couldn’t be more thrilled with our journey so far.
Why do you write what you write?
Stephanie grew up in a small town outside of Buffalo and Jim grew up in an even smaller town in northern Wisconsin. The books that remain our favorites are the ones we read as teens. Stories were our window to travel the world, meet people who were vastly different from us, experience amazing adventures, and learn about who we are and who we want to become. Once we started reading YA and MG as adults, we fell in love with these genres all over again.
What is your approach to writing? Are you a plotter or follow your characters flow (Pantser)?
This is actually a topic we discuss when speaking. We began as Pantsers, which is probably how most aspiring authors start. We found that we ended up throwing away months of work because it didn’t add anything to our characters’ development or the story itself. This time wasn’t totally wasted because all those deleted pages contributed to honing our writing skills. We finally started to use a large cork board with index cards to plot our novels. One card for each chapter with just a few sentences written on it. This allows us to see where the story is heading, spot the weak areas, more easily move or cut scenes, and work on the pacing. It also provides a sense of accomplishment because each card is changed from white to a color when the first draft is completed. As an added bonus, we never get writers block because we each grab a card and know what we need to write that day.
Why should we read this book, and what sets you apart from the rest and makes your book unique?
There are two alternating points of view in “Merged.” Orfyn is a sensitive street artist who paints masterpieces on brick walls to beautify his world, but they never last. Lake is a chemistry prodigy who wants stability, but her well-planned future is shattered when her grandmother gets Alzheimer’s. Our story explores just how far someone will go to achieve their dream.
Within the story are many references to famous paintings and scientific concepts, and—in a fun way—it questions whether art is as an important contributor to mankind as other fields (the STEM vs. STEAM education debate). It’s fast paced, and there’s something for everyone: romance, humor, adventure, and a mystery.
Any tips to share with fellow authors/aspiring authors? What’s the best advice you’ve ever heard? Read Stephen King’s book, “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.” It’s filled with practical lessons on writing, and at the same time, it inspires you to believe you can actually do it.
Speed Round (one word only answer): Yep, I know torture for a writer!<evil laugh>
Favorite movie: “Big Lebowski”
Favorite book: “Huckleberry Finn”
Last book read: “Aurora Rising” by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Favorite color: Blue
Stilettos or flipflops: Flipflops (for Steph), although Jim has great calves
Coffee or tea: Coffee!
Ebook or audiobook or paperback: Paperback (you can smell it)
Pencil or pen: Pencil
Favorite song: “Here Comes the Sun” by The Beatles
Streak or not: Why not?
Favorite dessert: Pumpkin pie
Favorite junk food: Pretzels with Marie’s blue cheese dressing
Favorite thing to do to relax: Laughing at our adorably bad dog
Champagne or gin: Gin
Paranormal or Historical: Paranormal
Wonder Woman or Top Model: Wonder Woman, of course!
Favorite TV show: “Big Bang Theory”
Hot or cold: Cold
POV: First
I’d die if I don’t have: Coffee
Review or Not: Review
Sneak peek between the pages of Merged
Mr. Blue points to the document. “Sign this and change your life. Or don’t. It’s up to you.”
“What happens if I say no?”
“The Darwin Corporation will remain your legal guardian, but you’ll lose the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become one of humanity’s greatest hopes.”
So basically, he’s saying I’m stuck here either way. “Will I always be locked up?”
“That depends on your choices.”
I wait for him to crack a smile. He doesn’t.
I break eye contact and flip to the last page. There’s one short paragraph stating that I’ve read the forty-one-page document (which I haven’t), I understand the risks (which I don’t), and I buy into the idea that two minds are better than one (or something like that). At the bottom, there’s a line with my name printed below it.
“Is it dangerous?” I ask, really wishing my voice hadn’t cracked.
Mr. Blue hesitates, and for a moment he almost appears human. “Every medical procedure has its risks, but the end result could change the world. And you’ll be one of the few who have the ability to change it.”
What if I could become the next Michelangelo? I’ve been given the chance to create art that makes a difference. For now, and even hundreds of years to come. “What else can you tell me about Bat?”
“He’s very successful,” Mr. Blue says, taking a pen from his suit pocket. “And he’s dying.”
“Can you give me a little more than that?”
“He specifically chose you.”
Nobody has ever chosen me.
I grab Mr. Blue’s pen and sign the document using the name I’m adopting. If I’m going to share my brain with someone and become a ground-breaking artist, I’m doing it as Orfyn.
It was wonderful having you with us today. Please feel free to stop by anytime. Good Luck with Merged!
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