Insurgent Chapter 4.4
As the line of humvees pulled into the town, Turville thought that Whitesville looked considerably better when they weren’t being shot at. That wasn’t likely at this point. First squad had already split off from…
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Insurgent Chapter 4.3
Interlude 3 − Spring 1998 Joe Blankenship looked in the mirror and adjusted his tie and collar where it chafed against his neck. Too tight: he’d gained near enough to 30 pounds of solid muscle…
Insurgent Chapter 4.2
Insurgent Chapter 4, part 2. Also cross posted to http://thenextread.com/stories/charlesesheehan-miles/insurgent…
Insurgent Chapter 4.1
“So what is your assessment?” asked Al Clark. At the moment, Clark sat at the small conference table in the Governor’s office, next to a window overlooking downtown Charleston. Valerie sat at his right hand.…
Goals, goals, goals
I’ve set myself a goal of 500 words (minimum) per day between now and the end of the year. Given the employment situation in 2009 (or lack thereof) followed by sale of our house, 4…
50 Reviews
Republic finally hit 50 reviews on Amazon.com just the other day. I’m not sure why this feels like a milestone to me, but oddly enough it does. The book’s been out for three years, and…
Updates to Insurgent
Latest chapters of Insurgent are up. You can check it out at The Next Read.…
Insurgent Chapter 3
Brigadier General Tom Murphy stood in the sunlight near the helicopter pad on the roof of the Governor’s mansion, chilled by the arctic wind and trying to absorb a little sunlight to offset it. Though…
Insurgent Chapter 2
The clank of the outside door down the hall woke up Valerie Murphy. She still lay flat on what passed for a bed, staring up at the dirty ceiling. She heard two sets of footsteps.…
Insurgent Chapter 1.3
In Whitesville, the sun was just setting behind the ridgeline, leaving the woods above the town in darkness. The wind howled over the ridgeline, blowing an icy wind into the narrow valley. Not much of…