Hey, guys.
I just released Chapter 8 of Multiple Strikes after... let's see here... 207 days.
I mentioned this in the author note on that chapter, but I'm super sorry for my absence for that. Another thing I said was that I've been working on some other stories. I'm on the first chapter for most of them, though. I'll just put an excerpt of one of them in here to see what you guys think, if that's alright.
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"Hello?" Cade yelled impulsively. He spun around, looking behind him. Nothing really different, but it was closer. He walked towards that, into the brush of deep orange trees.
They kinda looked like Jack-O-Lanterns, the ones he had been seeing all night all over the neighborhood. Candy after candy entered his decorated pail and the triangular, glowing eyes of a hollow pumpkin had been staring at him with partial life in its eyes. His friend, Scout, had accidentally knocked one over, the top falling off and the candle inside it falling out, burning up the surrounding grass.
But Cade didn't have his candy pail. He didn't see any Jack-O-Lanterns, and he didn't see his friends. Or any other human being.
Where was he?
He walked forward, into the brush closer to him, poking his head in without caution. He looked around. Clovers -- four-leafed ones -- poked out of the ground, their leaves fluttering inwards and outwards. Like they were breathing, or something. One of the taller ones caught Cade's attention, who squatted down and held his finger close to it.
It bit him.
"OW!" He yelped, taking a step back. He glared at that thing in shock; it didn't have teeth, or so it appeared. He then checked his finger, with bite marks circling his finger and blood manifesting from the wound.
He had a brief, abstract thought of it healing by odd and random means. And somehow, that happened. He widened his eyes as the blood dried instantly into clots, with turned to his honey-brown skin tone, and seemed to fuse in with the skin. The bite marks were gone.