Nicola MacCameroninMicrocosm·Sep 6, 2021Old Nick’s GarleyPa’s summons turns the Garley gang on its heels. — Nick the dog heard him coming four days out. Three days out we saw the sun-flash off his hat badge. I cocked my rifle at two days out. Speculation ran the gamut as to what the cloud of dust brought us. …Fiction4 min readFiction4 min read
Nicola MacCameroninMicrocosm·Sep 12, 2021Old Nick’s Garley: 2Western Subgenre: Indigenous Partnership — I looked it up and created Indigenous Partnership as the modern version of “Indian Wars” which we never want to hear about again. http://cuebon.com/ewriters/Wsubgenres.html I already wrote a few more chapters for Old Nick’s Garley so I wanted to find a subgenre that fit my bill in order to answer…Western3 min readWestern3 min read
Nicola MacCameroninMicrocosm·Sep 23, 2021Old Nick’s Garley 3Small town secrets don’t lie — The challenge involves micro genres. I chose small town secrets. The first scene holds a carryover from the last chapter. The second scene hints at another secret that gets its reveal next week. Thank you to Zane Dickens and Paul Mansfield for the fun. I marched up to the table…Microcosm5 min readMicrocosm5 min read
Nicola MacCameroninMicrocosm·Sep 28, 2021Old Nick’s Garley 4Small town kidnapping with British detective — I missed Old Nick that winter. In the spring he came to tell me the village was populated again. Miss Poke Bonnet swung by to tell me Miss D had grown strong running wild. “Want to meet her?” “No.” “She snuck around with her friends. …Western4 min readWestern4 min read
Nicola MacCameroninMicrocosm·Oct 10, 2021Old Nick’s Garley: The Last Stand“Don’t do it. I won’t go back. Don’t tell them anything.” — Now I can enter the serial challenge. I wrote Old Nick’s Garley within September’s theme(s). There’s even a hint of a campfire in this chapter to fit in with October’s theme, though ordinarily, I don’t want to mingle months. I just wanted y’all to have the last chapter. The full…Serial Fiction4 min readSerial Fiction4 min read