Deleted Scene - An Alternate Beginning to The Tiltersmith by Amy Herrick
As I mentioned in my Blog #3 entitled “Two Truths and a Lie – Can You Guess Which is Which?,” the original draft of my book, The Tiltersmith, was way longer than the final version. I could see it was way too long for its own good. Although there was so much I would have liked to keep, I ended up editing out a great deal of the story. I stowed the deleted bits away for perhaps another time and, today, I’m delighted to have a chance to share this alternate beginning. Hope you enjoy it.
The Tiltersmith Prologue There were four of them—Edward, Feenix, Danton and Brigit. They weren’t young and they weren’t old. They were in that inbetween place which, in our world, is the place where anything can happen. They were bound tightly together because of an adventure they had stumbled into, an adventure that they could no longer exactly remember. Have you ever had the feeling that you had once visited a place you no longer knew how to return to? If so, you will understand the way it went with them. Every now and then, the backside of a memory from this time would hurry past and vanish around a corner. But how do you speak out loud about something like that? So, they avoided it. If you would like to hear the story of what they had forgotten, stop here and go back and read about it in the first book. If you would prefer, however, to know what happens next, turn the page. Chapter One Danton Goes in First Danton, as it chanced, was the one to go back into the park first. When he woke up that morning in late March, Danton could have sworn his feet were farther away from his head than they had been the day before. Rising from his bed, it was kind of terrifying, like being at the top of the roller coaster in
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