Let's Do This Thing For Real: Burn Five, Look Alive !

So...it's been a while but.....

I'm back and so is my muse  !

I completely finished Burn a few weeks ago

And I've spent the last few months just writing and picking at  different things and trying things out. While there have been some setbacks it's mostly progress.

I've outlined two mermaid short stories that I'm tentatively calling Fishtales 

I've been getting more words done on FZA but it's been going like this

I'm 7,000 words into my UL thing and I'm looking at it like

 Also, um...

I'm  2,000 7,000 words into a BDSM erotic Vice short story with Luce and Haley

Well, it started out that way it's actually more romance-y now 

The Last Recap

Skylark Gray has grown up on The Atlas Star, a research satellite ship that rarely touches ground on Earth. He is a foster kid and raised by a guardian who is mostly ambivalent towards him except on his birthdays where they spend an hour in the Closet.

On his 16th birthday Sky goes looking for answers and discovers he is Phoenix Maxwell, the only son of the former president of the Republic who was famously kidnapped as a toddler and never found. His guardian had been sending the tapes of the Closet to Maxwell to make him think he kept Sky locked in a closet for 10 years.

He learns his guardian knew  Maxwell during the war and took Phoenix as payback with the help of his fiance Luce Grace, a hacker cyborg in the cartel. They'd hid him by lying about his age by a year and having his name removed from the manifest so he'd never be found.

Sky demands to go back to his real parents and they devise a plan to send him back without implicating Haley but things aren't how Sky imagined. He's never been on Earth before and the environment is foreign to him. He learns his parents have been secretly separated for years. Maxwell distrusts Sky's sudden reapperance and gets violent--believing Sky is working with Haley on something

Fed up, when he sees an opportunity Sky tries to make a run for it but Prescott stops him.

“Phoenix,  I know Maxwell scared you--,” Major Prescott says.

  

“It’s not Maxwell,” I explain and Major Prescott looks so hurt. “I  just want to go back--,”

“No you don’t, sweetheart,” he says softly kissing my forehead. 

“I--,”

 “This is normal. You have something called Stockholm Syndrome,” Major Prescott tells me. “I talked to some specialist about it today.  Max doesn’t understand that it’s a serious condition and he went too far with you. Don’t worry, we’ll get you help.”

I open my mouth to protest but he isn't hearing it as the car takes off down the street.

Burn 5 
Playlist
-1-  Anything You Synthesize by The American Dollar
-2- Your Tale by Hiroshi Yamazaki
-3- Tenuous Gears by Damiak