Dr. Hsui gets to interview one of the main foci of Legend's concerns. ----- Chapter 19. "Thank you very much for coming, Fireflux." Inside, she wasn't entirely glad. Normally, Jennifer was perfectly comfortable with her own looks—and, truth be told, in private might even allow herself to be a little vain. She knew she was very good-looking, and she also generally didn't put much emphasis on the importance of looks. Damned if I want my daughter thinking the only thing important is whether she's pretty enough. But I [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND: Chapter 17
March 24, 2019 By 2 Comments
Jennifer does some shopping, and then meets with someone unique... ----- Chapter 17. Jennifer shivered as she shook the sleet from her coat. As she went to grab a basket from near the door, something bumped into her hard, making her stumble against the handrail that led down the ramp into the Co-Op. "Hey!" Instead of an apology, the bearded man who'd jostled her continued what was obviously a heated argument: " . . . poisoned the water and the air, we don't deserve to live!" "You're welcome to believe what you [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND: Chapter 14
March 21, 2019 By 2 Comments
Time for Legend to continue his therapy... ------- Chapter 14. Rain whispered and chattered against her office's windows as she waited. She'd spread a towel underneath, so that when she opened the window it would keep the water off her carpet. With a blurred flicker, he was suddenly there, inside, the window still closed, hardly a drop of rain on him, only a slight dusting of mist that edged that spiky mane with diamond dust and an aura of magic. She realized she'd given an inarticulate yelp as he looked at her [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND: Chapter 8
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Jennifer was meeting with someone my readers have met before... ----- Chapter 8. "Thank you so much for agreeing to see me on such short notice, Mr. Wood," Jennifer said. "No problem," Jason Wood said, waving her inside his office. "Call me Jason, as long as I can call you Jennifer." He gave the trademark slightly-lopsided grin that was familiar to just about everyone on Earth by this point and ran his fingers absently through streaky-blond hair. "I don't think I've ever had a psychologist . . . sorry, psychiatrist . [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND: Chapter 6
March 13, 2019 By 2 Comments
Dr. Hsui is involved in something she never expected. So what do you do? RESEARCH! ----- Chapter 6. And now I spend half my Saturday working. There wasn't any avoiding the fact that if she was going to be trying to counsel a . . . superhero, she needed more information. Fortunately, Yuki's friend Melanie Davidson was more than happy to have Yuki over for a play date, and Melanie's mother Dawn was even willing to do the pick-up and drop-off. "Thank you so much, Dawn," she said, giving Yuki a kiss on the cheek before [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND: Chapter 3
March 10, 2019 By 3 Comments
Dr. Hsui has her daughter to look after and a lot of thinking to do... ----- Chapter 3. Jennifer realized she'd made it home only when she was opening the front door. I drove home entirely on autopilot. "Mommy!" The delighted cry from farther in the house preceded a small, slender, black-haired dynamo who catapulted into Jennifer's arms so energetically it almost knocked her down. "It's a commercial break, so I can come out now, I had my bath, Gran's reading in the other room, she said I'm a big girl now so I can watch by [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND: Chapter 2
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So, you have a superhero on the analyst's couch... ----- Chapter 2. She was still in something of a state of shock, but she heard herself respond, "I . . . will have to think about it for a few minutes." He looked suddenly chagrined. "Look at me, coming in here with a clear plan as to what I was going to say, and then messing it up already." She blinked. "What do you mean?" "Well, obviously you'll have to think about it. There's . . . a lot of issues. And I wanted to make sure you knew them up front. And I was going to [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND, Chapter 1
March 8, 2019 By Leave a Comment
It's just an ordinary day at the office... Chapter 1. "I think today's session went well, Mr. Thompson," Jennifer Hsui said in her best professional tone. It was important to conclude each appointment on time, but not to make the patient—or client, as some people preferred—feel pressured or cut off. Thompson, a man with a heavily lined face and graying hair that showed it had once been dark, managed a smile that creased his cheeks with wrinkles that had not been there so often when first he had come to her——was it a [ Continue reading... ]
Teaser Chapter: The Stuff of Legend, Chapter 1
October 13, 2015 By Leave a Comment
I posted the prologue for Stuff of Legend some time back. Here's Chapter 1 of that superhero novel (based in a possible future of the world of Paradigms Lost); this book's currently with my agent Marisa Corvisiero! ---- Chapter 1. "I think today's session went well, Mr. Thompson," Jennifer Hsui said in her best professional tone. It was important to conclude each appointment on time, but not to make the patient – or client, as some people preferred – feel pressured or cut [ Continue reading... ]
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