On an unremarkable April evening of the year 2022, I was struck with a vision. Two years, lots of worldbuilding, and a chunk of my immortal soul later, that vision became a novel called Stargazers. A 50-something-thousand-word manuscript about a weary General, a gruelling civil war, and a quartet of psychic assassin child soldiers (I love saying that phrase) placed in his care. It used to be published here and there, even still might be, but has now definitively found its home on Quibble.
There's action and drama, there's angst and comfort, there's a found family dynamic, all set in a fictional 21st-century-esque world with elements of sci-fi and fantasy not just coexisting, but placed in direct and continuous brutal conflict. I can hardly call it a perfect story, but I am quite frankly astounded by how much it doesn't suck.
To cut to the chase, I want people to read it. That's it. I'm not asking for detailed critique or anything, I just want somebody to experience this story of mine, its world and characters. There is truly nothing that would bring me greater joy and fulfilment. This could be the greatest manuscript ever penned by a human hand and it would be worthless to me if I couldn't find any readers for it.
Stargazers can be found on Quibble through the following link: click here to experience peak fiction
You can find the blurb there, but since it's very brief, it's also reproduced below for the sake of completeness:
"Director-General McCarter of the Larnachian Armed Forces expected to have a bad day. He did not, however, expect to suddenly have a quartet of psychic assassin child soldiers thrust into his care by a mad scientist. In a conflict where superhuman magic-wielding insurgents are fought with railguns and powered exoskeletons and gruesome cybernetics, he could hardly say whether they are an atrocity or a necessity.
As the six-year-long Sparkwielder crisis draws close to a violent crescendo, the young yet weary General endeavours to give these poor souls a life worth living – and perhaps they'll teach him how to live again, too."
Thank you and have a good day.