The Opening of Jacky Pow, and the Idol of the Halfmoon King
Context I'm reviving this blog to update yall on all of my projects. The first is Jacky Pow, and the Idol of the Halfmoon King. Jacky Pow is a series of pulp supernatural thriller novels set in the 1930s that I've been writing for some time. The following text is the beginning of Jacky Pow's first instalment. Well I suppose it's not really the first, but it's the first version of it that I feel confident enough to share. Please let me know your thoughts. The Opening And once-more, in the midst of the fight, I found I was a middle-aged man. Another fight, another age. A blow, cracking down - the splatter of blood upon the face of some imaginary foe. “Jacky! Jacky!” bellowed some irrelevant man, irrelevant because I knew I was hallucinating. I awoke, still nineteen, slumped against the warehouse wall, revolver clutched to my beating heart. “Nathan…” I tried to say, but managed o...