INTO THE DARKNESS
by K.F.
Breene
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I’d
always been different. I saw objects in the night where others saw emptiness.
Large, human shaped shadows, fierce yet beautiful, melting into the darkness. I
collected secrets like other women collected bells; afraid to fully trust lest
my oddities be exposed.
Until
I saw him. He’d been gliding down the street, unshakable confidence in every
step. It wasn’t just that he was breathtakingly handsome with perfect features.
Something about him drew me. Sucked my focus to him and then tugged at my body.
As his eyes met mine, I was entrapped.
No
one had noticed him. He’d been right there, just beyond the light, but only I
had perceived.
I
had to know if he was real. Or maybe I really was crazy. And even when my
secret box was blasted wide open, dangers hurled at me like throwing knives, I
couldn’t stop until I unraveled his true identity.
I
just had to know.
“She
was fated to live.”
“Then
why must you save her?”
“Often
Fate is struck down by dumb luck.”
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Excerpt:
I huddled on my bed later that night with my knees pulled up
to my chest. Thinking. Focusing on what it was I couldn’t remember. It was
there, hovering around my conscious mind. Nudging me. Waiting for me to pay
attention. To remember. It was the key to that insane situation in the park.
I flung my wet hair out of my face, pulled the sleeves of my pajamas over my
hands, and glanced out the window.
The stranger waited. Outside, he watched, staring up at my
shaded windows, just wanting me to know he was there. He was waiting for me to
come down to him. He had the same questions I did—I was certain he felt the same things.
How did I know this? I just did. And that scared the holy
crap outta me!
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1. Do you ever wish you were someone else? Who?
I don’t wish I was someone else, but I do wish I was me in a
different situation. For example, I wish my job was a zoologist in Africa
working with the large mammals. Or I wish I had the money to travel anywhere I
wanted any time I wanted so I could learn about different cultures while living
there for a time. I think it would be a waste to be someone completely
different. I’ve spent so long getting to know me, and getting comfortable and
confident with myself, that to change up now would mean I’d have to start all
over.
2. What did you do on your last birthday?
Every other year I celebrate my birthday. They just aren’t
that important anymore, so I need a year off from merriment. So last year was a
‘down’ year. I took my daughter and her friend to Chuck E Cheese. In addition
to the food being terrible, and the place being run-down and kinda gross, my
daughter’s friend got sick. Then my daughter got sick. So I spent my birthday
being thrown up on. Amazingly, since it was an off-year, I didn’t actually mind
all that much. I mean, throw up is gross, obviously, but it didn’t ruin my
birthday.
This year I’ll have to go crazy.
3. Do you have any tattoos? Where? When did you get it/them? Where are they on your body?
I don’t have any. I’ve thought about getting one for about
ten years, but couldn’t decide on what to get or where to get it. Since its
permanent, I just didn’t get one. I still might, except now I’d have to get it
on an ankle or something since the rest of my body isn’t as in shape as I could
want…
4. What are you working on right now?
My current project is a contemporary romance about a girl on
the wrong side of happily ever after. Her fiancé left her for another woman,
prompting a sort of life crisis. She heads to Montana for a seasonal dude ranch
job, something she’s always wanted to do, and meets up with her childhood
friend that she hasn’t seen since she was nine. He’s a survival instructor,
teaching people how to survive in the wild. His quiet support couldn’t come at
a better time, her love and closeness to him as a child just as prevalent and
gratifying as an adult. As she is reacquainting herself with him, and trying to
get her life back on track, she finds herself stranded with him in the wilds of
Montana. She has to learn to trust again in the direst of circumstances with a
man she’d only thought of as a brother. It’s a story about picking yourself up
after the worst happens, and about childhood love that is given a chance to
grow into a meaningful relationship as an adult.
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A wine
country native, K.F. Breene moved to San Francisco for college just shy of a
decade ago to pursue a lifelong interest in film. As she settled into the
vibrant city, it quickly became apparent that, while she thought making and
editing films was great fun, she lacked cinematic genius. For that reason, her
career path quickly changed direction. Her next goal was a strange childhood
interest, conjured at the dining room table while filling out a form. For some
reason, her young self wanted to be an accountant. Thinking on it now, she
often wonders how she had any friends. Regardless, it was the direction she
finally took.
While she
could wrangle numbers with the best of 'em, and even though she wore the crown
as the most outspoken, belligerent accountant in the world, her mind got as
stuffy as her daily routine. It was here that she dusted off her creative hat
and began writing. Now she makes movies in her head, not worried about
lighting, shutter speed or editing equipment. Turns out, a computer is much
easier to manage than a crowd of actors. She should know, she was an actor at
one time.
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