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    The Buried Blade: C.M.'s Singles, #19
    The Buried Blade: C.M.'s Singles, #19
    The Buried Blade: C.M.'s Singles, #19
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    The Buried Blade: C.M.'s Singles, #19

    By C.M. Simpson

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    A short story concerning an invisible enemy and an unheard song stalk a farmer's field, a visiting college student unearths a mystery, and hints of an ancient order, and the embers of an old war threaten to rekindle. Can Amanda discover the reason her uncle's field is dying, without falling victim herself?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC.M. Simpson Publishing
    Release dateSep 24, 2024
    ISBN9798227401052
    The Buried Blade: C.M.'s Singles, #19
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    C.M. Simpson

    I spent the first twenty years of my life living in different parts of Queensland and the Northern Territory. My father was a teacher who liked to travel, so he took teaching appointments in all kinds of places. I don’t think I stayed in one place for more than four years at a stretch. I wrote stories for most of that time, drawing on the different landscapes we encountered and giving a hyper-active imagination somewhere to run. Seeing so many different places gave me a lot of food for thought as I stepped into the world of adulthood and took my first full-time job, and I never stopped writing and exploring the worlds in my head. So far, I have written four collections of short stories and poetry, and a number of novels, with many more to come. I hope you have enjoyed this part of my journey.

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      The Buried Blade - C.M. Simpson

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      The Buried Blade is one of my earliest completed short stores. I wrote it sometime in 1998, and first published it as a stand-alone short story, when I was trying to work out how independent publishing worked.

      I published it, again, in the now out-of-print Anthology of Blades, and a third time in A Collection of Death and the Undead...which I thought was going to be the last time. I was wrong. This stand-alone version is going to be the last iteration, an update to the level I work at now—as best as I can make it without losing what makes it the story it is.

      It is one of my few attempts at a speculative piece, and at ‘writing to market,’ something I’ve now worked out I’m not very good at. My stories, and imagination, want to go in other directions, and neither works very well when pushed toward one particular box.

      The end result is that most of my work isn’t a good fit for most magazines, who have a distinct market in mind. I am just very fortunate that there are readers who like the difference...or I hope there are.

      One of the best things about publishing independently, or ‘out of the publisher box,’ is that you let your readers decide what they want to read of yours. You let them decide if your stories are worth their time. You don’t rely on someone else, an individual with an eye for a specific market, to tell the readers that the story is something they want to read.

      It’s a scary concept. You have to have faith in your stories, and that there are readers out there who like to read the same things you do, and you have to accept that not every reader will like every story, as you go on to write the next one.

      So, with that in mind, and well aware that this piece is different from a lot of my other work, I set it down so it can find its readers, and hope you enjoy this child from one of past eras of storytelling I traveled through in my journey as a writer.

      And, as always, I wish you a good day, today, wherever and whenever in the world you are.

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