First Post

Hello,

Welcome to the first post of the blog! It has been added for more informal content that fits on the site.

Here you will see things such as minor additions or comments for my projects, and my upcoming serialized stories.

As a start, I will share the first few paragrahs of Dishonorable Gentlemen be Hither and Thither, an action-adventure historical fiction taking place during the Norman Conquest.

It was an original novella I wrote a few years ago and only had shown to closer friends of mine, never releasing it into public.

DISHONORABLE GENTLEMEN BE HITHER AND THITHER

Chapter 1: Peasant 1

In the year 1026 A.D, Jeffery was born to a chicken farming family in a village near Bristol. Jeffery was of scrawny and long stature, yet tough as the nails he was shaped like. Farming life blessed him with endurance. There was no time for rest under heavy toil, but the seasonal family gatherings would always be worth it. In those gatherings, at the old age of nine, it would be where Jeffery met Ella. She had come from a smithing family, one from the next village over.

The gatherings appeared once a year. But, when they were branded onto each other’s eyes, gatherings felt as if they happened after every eternal life in heaven. Jeffery had kept a brass ring, given by Ella, that he kept as a token of her love.

Jeffery had waited for the next gathering, but never found Ella again. He looked everywhere and everythere with not a sign nor a clue. He asked everyone he could find and had gotten no peace of mind. He wanted to give her a rose that day and would vow to wear another rose until death. The days, and weeks, and months passed by. Some girls would want Jeffery, but he would always feel empty.

The rest of the story will be posted in portions as time goes on. -John Octavio