Fable: Fangs, Claws, and Other Sins

LOVE HAS NEVER FELT SO CRAZY!

(Brand New! Active Readers' Corner. Scroll to the bottom for updates!)

Hey, you finally made it! 

Glad to see ya, welcome to the blurb, feel free to leave your shoes on, all the good things. We'll try to keep this brief.

We could start things off by talking a bit about Opal and Dante. Two wildly messed-up and half-bred mythological creatures struggling to find their own ways in a world more than ready to turn in its cauldrons for microscopes and its enigmatic magic for the sweet, sterile reproducibility of science. And we could talk more about Jaxon City, the hedonistic, futurist metropolis that craps concrete and puffs neon.

But instead, I'm wondering if I could ask you a question: Tell me,

have you ever been in love?

And I don’t mean have you ever drank too much on a night that lasted way too long in a city that was just the right amount of far, far away. 

I mean love. 

You know love, that warm, fuzzy feeling that makes everything new and bright. The feeling that lets you wake up in the morning, uproot any semblance of the normalcy that was your life and barge onwards anyway with nothing, save the hope that everything will be okay, and a little less lonely, when you go to lay down again.

As mythical as it may seem, that love is real, and it'd really be somethin' if you could join me as our very dear Dante and Opal enjoy their very first dance with it.

If you’d like to strap yourself in and tie one on, I can’t promise you things will always be perfect. I can’t promise you every joke will land. All I can promise is that we’ve really messed up now, you and I, and if we’re gonna have any hope of doing this thing right, there’s only one way we’re getting it done:

together
   always together
      and together forevermore.

Release Schedule:

New chapters every Friday at 16:30 (4:30pm EST)    *subject to change (CURRENTLY ON A TEMPORARY HIATUS FOR EDITING)

Edits will be applied throughout the week until 09:00 on Thursdays. 

LIVESTREAMED READINGS EVERY FRIDAY @ NOON (feel free to suggest other times) https://www.twitch.tv/mr_clinkclank

Weekly Edits Focus: A hefty rework with developmental edits for the story so far.

What This Is:

This is a story that can get really wacky and is very different from what you might expect to find on Royal Road. Just a heads up.

If I had to put this as concisely as possible, this is a serially published paranormal romance trapped and screaming inside a southern gothic frame narrative being told with the cadence of a stand-up comedy routine.

But it's just a love story.

Things will start off normal enough, but as you make your way through the initial chapters, you'll start seeing what I mean.

It's just a skeleton too. I'm still stitching in all the flesh. Edits will be constant, but I'll try to keep people updated on where they can expect changes week by week. More in-depth explanations will be found on the discord.

Thanks for checking me out! Please, enjoy! :D

With love,

Mr. Clink Clank

Active Readers' Corner (Updated every Sunday): HUGE FABLE REWORK CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS

Prologue: 

Took a quick look at the prologue. There’s more than a few changes here, most to miniature to mention, but I did try to do a better job at landing our story’s first joke. You might’ve missed it on the first go ‘round :D. There’s a bit more buildup to the “I shit you not” line, despite our beloved narrator supposedly having such an aversion to swearing.

There’s also some nice little snippets in there to help clean and tighten the prose a fair bit. Ones that I had a ton of fun writing, and ones I hope you can have half as much reading.

Chapter Seven:

The true meat of the changes will start here.
One of the most significant changes that I want to make to the story, as it exists now, is that I’d like Dante’s lyncathropy to be a closely guarded secret, from Varin included, at least at the start. I foreshadowed that this is the way the story would go, beginning in Chapter Six, I believe, and then promptly decided to ditch the idea altogether. Mistake. Big Mistake. Working on fixing that for y'all now. 

Chapter Twelve:

Fixed our tagline's format at the start, I'm surprised it existed as it was for this long, but hey, let's chalk it up to growing pains.

Other than that, the edits here are too scarce and small to be worth mentioning. No crazy changes thus far, but I do have ideas for some swimming around in my head.