Sneak Peak of my Current Work in Progress:

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I limped towards the house. I didn’t live in the main house but resided in the basement. There was a side door just to the left of the main entrance that I was to use at all times. I struggled for a moment to open the heavy wooden door.

 

When it finally opened, I limped down the narrow staircase. Below, stuffed between said staircase and a small space heater, was where I slept most nights.

The space heater didn’t work of course. There was no electricity. There hadn’t been in many years, since before my time. We were not allowed electricity in the human cities. Only those in the Other were allowed.

 

The Other was basically a wall. It stretched from sea to sea, splitting the land in half. Or so I have heard. I have never seen this mystery wall nor have I ever laid an eye on an Otherlander, one who resided on the opposite side of said wall.

The Otherlander’s were rumored to be vicious, monster like creatures. Some were said to have an abnormal desire for our blood. Others were said to possess strength enough to snap a person clear in half. No human, as far as I was aware, had ever been allowed into the Other. Not even the Breeders were allowed. They were taken to a small village that lay a few feet from the border.

 

Again, all of this information was simply a rumor, things I had heard in passing. Mistress held many books on the subject, but I was not allowed to read. I tried, once. I do not recall much of that day thanks to the blow against the side of my face I had received. I still bare a jagged scar just beneath my hair line from it.

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(I hope to be finished with this one by the end of the year. If I'm lucky, maybe before?)

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