Mr. Abernathy

“There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.”
 -Daniel Webster

Chapter 11 is now available for download. Read, share, and enjoy.

You can’t run from your mistakes forever. Or can you?

Chapter 7 is now available for download. Read, share, and enjoy.

They mislead us, misinform us, and play games with us. They educate us and they torment us. They are our benefactors and our enemies.

Chapter 6 is now available for download. Read, share, and enjoy.

Strange things come in large packages.

Chapter 5 is now available for download. Read, share, and enjoy.

No matter who you become, no matter who you pretend to be, and no matter who you believe yourself to be, you can never be free of your destiny.

Chapter 4 is now available for download. Read, share, and enjoy.

(also: please see my previous post - feedback on the story in progress in welcome and encouraged.)

I got an email from a reader yesterday, asking me some questions about the book so far. I told her that obviously I can’t give spoilers or answer direct questions about where the story is going, and that I’m reluctant to even participate in conversations about what’s happened so far. I want readers to come up with their own interpretations of the characters and their motives, and it’s unfair for me to give my own spin on things as the story unfolds.

Having said that, however, I want to invite everyone to leave comments on any of the posts here if they want to discuss the story with other readers, ask questions, offer their theories on what’s taking place, and so forth. While I don’t have the time or resources to set up a proper discussion forum right now, I’d still love to get feedback from all of you as the story rolls on, and hopefully drum up some conversations between all of you as well.

So consider this the first general “open thread”. If you want to comment on a specific chapter, go ahead and do so on the blog post that announced that chapter.

Thanks again for reading. I’m having a lot of fun with this story, and I hope you are too.

Perhaps you think you’ve never seen one of the strange men before. But you have. You just didn’t see him long enough to notice that he was… different.

Chapter 3 is now available for download. Share and enjoy.