I've spent a lot of time on this. I wrote it by hand in summer, 2000. Then
I started typing it up in 2001. Then I edited out all the crappy bits. Re-edited
it once I was all finished and ran it through a spell- and grammar-check in
Microsoft Word.
It was originally titled "Mad Season" after the Matchbox Twenty song, but I renamed it because music didn't really play a large role when I re-edited it.
And now you see before you the finished work. It is 8 chapters long and is the first arc of the ERA series. The arc is a short series called the Adrenaline Chronicles. The title of the arc is "Some Kind of Haven".
This story is about a fourteen year-old girl named Andrea Shane. She mutated when she was in the seventh grade and became an immediate outcast. She doesn't want to fit in, she doesn't want to be an outcast, she doesn't want to live, and she doesn't want to die. She doesn't know what she wants.
But one day, a woman comes to her offering her friendship, a place to stay, tutoring, training in her powers, and people who will love and understand her. The catch? She has to move to New York City and cut off all contact with her family, whom the woman has psychically altered to let their youngest daughter leave home with financing for the new program.
Andrea Shane makes a series of choices, some good and some not so good, and continues to end up where she least expects it with the people she least expects to meet.
It's a coming of age story with a twist.
Have fun reading it. You'll never know the fun I had writing it, or the fun I will have writing the rest of the ERA stories.
And now, without further ado, brought to you by Labyrinth Comics,
Some Kind of Haven
Story by Kim Raleigh
Art by Kim Raleigh
Written by Kim Raleigh
Author's Note: Confused? Then read the bios of the characters mentioned in this story. They are under "The E.R.A. Files".
It was originally titled "Mad Season" after the Matchbox Twenty song, but I renamed it because music didn't really play a large role when I re-edited it.
And now you see before you the finished work. It is 8 chapters long and is the first arc of the ERA series. The arc is a short series called the Adrenaline Chronicles. The title of the arc is "Some Kind of Haven".
This story is about a fourteen year-old girl named Andrea Shane. She mutated when she was in the seventh grade and became an immediate outcast. She doesn't want to fit in, she doesn't want to be an outcast, she doesn't want to live, and she doesn't want to die. She doesn't know what she wants.
But one day, a woman comes to her offering her friendship, a place to stay, tutoring, training in her powers, and people who will love and understand her. The catch? She has to move to New York City and cut off all contact with her family, whom the woman has psychically altered to let their youngest daughter leave home with financing for the new program.
Andrea Shane makes a series of choices, some good and some not so good, and continues to end up where she least expects it with the people she least expects to meet.
It's a coming of age story with a twist.
Have fun reading it. You'll never know the fun I had writing it, or the fun I will have writing the rest of the ERA stories.
And now, without further ado, brought to you by Labyrinth Comics,
Some Kind of Haven
Story by Kim Raleigh
Art by Kim Raleigh
Written by Kim Raleigh
Author's Note: Confused? Then read the bios of the characters mentioned in this story. They are under "The E.R.A. Files".