New today, it’s part fourteen of The Island — now live and available for free at LHarker.com/island-14.
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“‘It’s open!’ Pestilence called in the loudest, least pathetic voice that it could muster […].”
From part twelve of The Island. Read more for free at LHarker.com/island-12.
As of this post, there are only eight parts remaining in this story.
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The end of Sorrow and the beginnings of Pestilence — part eleven of the Island is now live. Read it for free at LHarker.com/island-11.
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The tenth part of The Island is out now. Read it for free at LHarker.com/island-10, or, if you’re new to this story, jump in from the very beginning with LHarker.com/island-1.
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Direct jokes don’t tend to land well when you lose the context of the language they were written in but a few of these genuinely made Drew laugh at the first read, so hopefully the same is true for you as well.
I had a lot of fun with this one — even if there were a few … more difficult aspects of the translation.
“The red sun looms large directly overhead now, casting down its great light and almost stifling heat upon the little Island.”
Part nine of The Island is now live. Read it for free at LHarker.com/island-9.
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The Island part eight is now live. Read it for free at LHarker.com/island-8.
There’s only about a month left in this project.
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How ’bout one more to round out the week? Part seven of The Island is now available for free at LHarker.com/island-7.
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“The stranger’s alarm grew greater still then — until it looked almost ready to die of fright.”
From The Island part six, the latest entry in my current translation. It’s out now, and you can read it for free at LHarker.com/island-6.
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Happy Monday! The Island part five is out now, and you can read it for free at LHarker.com/island-5.
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“Now, not a thing went on on the Island that Order did not know about — not a hedge overgrown and blocking a walkway nor a single piece of litter left anywhere in the streets.”
The fourth part of The Island is now live. Read for free at LHarker.com/island-4.
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“It feared those days more than anything else now, and so it was contented — for a time at least — to forget the lessons of its youth — the inevitability of change and the unavoidable nature in the changing of all things.”
The Island part two — more at LHarker.com/island-2.
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“A dark red sun hangs high above a deep, blue sea, taking up much of the eastern horizon.”
New season, new look, and the start of a brand new project — part one of The Island is out now! Read it for free at LHarker.com/island-1.
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I might still be poking around a little — those star pictures aren’t going to like themselves — but you can expect to see me back on Friday, the twentieth of March with the first part of a new translation.
You can read more by following the link at the end of this piece (skip to the bottom for the announcement), but I’ll also say here that I’m going to be taking a short break before the start of the next project.
Part forty‐seven of The Manor of Night — the finale! — is out now. Read it for free at LHarker.com/manor-of-night-47, or check out this entire translation from the beginning at LHarker.com/manor-of-night-1.
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The forty‐sixth part of The Manor of Night is out now. Read it for free at LHarker.com/manor-of-night-46.
Finale Wednesday!
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“I took my eyes off it then, turning the light back around for the first time since I’d noticed it standing there”
Part forty‐five of The Manor of Night is now live. Read it for free at LHarker.com/manor-of-night-45.
Only two parts remaining in this story!
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Happy to present The Manor of Night part forty‐four — now live at LHarker.com/manor-of-night-44.
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The forty‐third part of The Manor of Night is now available for free at LHarker.com/manor-of-night-43.
There are only four more parts remaining in this project.
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The Manor of Night part forty‐two is now live at LHarker.com/manor-of-night-42.
Today’s post also marks five hundred individual story parts available on the site, all for free.
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Out now — The Manor of Night part forty‐one. Read it for free at LHarker.com/manor-of-night-41.
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Another day, another part! Part forty of The Manor of Night is now live. Read for free at LHarker.com/manor-of-night-40.
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Part thirty‐nine of The Manor of Night is now live at LHarker.com/manor-of-night-39. Read it for free!
Also, as a warning, there are only about eight more parts left in this story, which is technically a spoiler but it’s also helpful information so….
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My current project is on LHarker.com/manor-of-night-1.
No, no publisher — just running it all off my website.
I mostly work with fantasy, fairy tale, mythology, and sci‐fi, though there’s a mix of other things scattered throughout.