The writing process goes through a good many false beginnings before a story idea can take hold in the imagination and grow into a true work. I had many ideas that never got past the 'get the seed idea written down' stage. A few got past that into actual writing before the idea petered out.

A good many of these ideas had been written in the year before I began posting 'The Will Born in Fire'. Many ideas in them I used in later works like 'The Lost Ninja' which pulled a majority of two of them into one story.

Those ideas on the cutting room floor are now open for viewing. Of course, like any good DVD extra, there will be some commentary attached. These story beginnings are only edited to ease reading but are otherwise as I had left them in the 'Suspended' folder of my flash drive. Most ideas are open for adoption should anyone feel the need to continue them but I have gone about as far with them as I care to.

My only purpose here is not to write more stories but to put to rest the desire to share these orphan snippets with others.