TWO-EYES is a story I wrote as a modern riff on an old Grimm’s fairy tale by the same name. You can get a taste for the Grimm version in the opening paragraphs of the story. Here’s my own, updated plot:
Smart, sarcastic Emiline Butcher is the odd-girl-out in her family: a good student, a good girl, nobody worth noticing. But Emiline notices everything about them: her messed-up, conniving sisters; her secretive mother; her silent, passive dad. How can a normal girl escape the abnormal–especially when she’s the only one who sees it?
A lot of times I write short stories as an experiment in voice: If I like the way a particular character sounds to my ear, I might write a whole novel from her perspective.
The star of TWO-EYES, Emiline Butcher, was a girl I really ended up liking. So I did write a whole novel in her voice, but gave her a completely different name, family, storyline, etc. And who knows–some day you all may see it! You never can tell . . .
In the meantime, you can download TWO-EYES from Smashwords, and even better–you can download it for free all weekend long. Just use coupon code AV48G. Coupon expires April 25, 2011.
Enjoy!
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