Free Fiction: Mystery of the Stardust Monk – Part 4

Oh, my gosh! I am working on some amazing things right now. I have about five stories all coming together. It’s fantastic. This is when it’s so nice to be trusting the process and following the flow.

I give it a week and it’ll probably go crashing down.

It’s not that I’m being pessimistic or anything like that, I just understand cycles. I often say that there is balance in all things. What many people see as duality (good/evil, light/dark, happy/sad, thin/fat, life/death, like/dislike, etc.), I actually see as circles. It is never day, then suddenly night, no matter how we feel like it is that way. There is a gradient as we go through sunset, then again at sunrise as night becomes day. We are never happy, then sad — again there is a decline, other thoughts intruding, etc. until we feel sad.  We are always on some position within that cycle.

So, I know that when the story is working well, it won’t last forever. There will come the times when I want to pound my head on the desk in frustration.

But, I do wish for the impossible still. I wish the reader could be right there with me at this moment of creation, that point where the magic happens. It, of course, can never happen. I must always be ahead on the path. Still, I wish…

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Mystery of the Stardust Monk

by Dawn Blair

Part 4 was available for one week and has now turned back into a pumpkin. If you missed it, click on the links below to find it or another great story to read. There’s also another free story or story excerpt somewhere around my blog – I try to post something new every Wednesday. Hunt the story down, read, and enjoy!

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Find out what happens to the orb in Stardust!

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Mystery of the Stardust Monk – copyright © 2018 Dawn Blair

Published by Morning Sky Studios
Cover and layout copyright © 2018 by Morning Sky Studios
Cover design by Dawn Blair/Morning Sky Studios
Cover art copyright © Dawn Blair, © Mikel Martinez De Osaba | Dreamstime.com, © Dwnld777 | Dreamstime.com, and © Alena Akanovich | Dreamstime.com

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