Elven

What would you think if you woke up at 1:00 AM and found an elf lying half-dead next to your trashbin? A lot of people would freak.

Not Ethan Rivers.

Ethan’s the kind of guy who can go places. Completed high school at age 10. Completed college by fourteen. Finished med school by eighteen. Certified Ph.D. in surgical pathology. Second-degree black belt in judo. Has a world of opportunity.

And yet he chooses to go to Brooklyn – Brooklyn, of all places – and work with others less gifted than himself. He works long, often thankless hours in a clinic, providing emergency surgery for all types of victims. He makes just enough money to rent a decent-sized apartment and buy a gray 2005 Ford Fusion stickshift.

And then, at 1:00 in the morning, he finds a half-dead girl next to his trashbin.

Her hair’s covering her ears, so he doesn’t see those. What he does see is that there’s a blue-green shard of something eating its way steadily through her left shoulder. He’s a surgeon, so he pulls it out – and then she wakes up.

Over the next few days, Ethan finds out that the girl’s name is Corii, there are men trying to find her and kill her, and that she has both the camouflage tendencies of a chameleon and the killer instinct of a rattlesnake.

The encounter opens up a world of intrigue for Ethan as he begins to discover elves, dragons, and a secret society called the Knights of Avalon – all here on this earth.

 

Yeah, it sounds a little cliché, I know – but it’s a fun little story to write. Especially when you use fantastical means to describe real-world occurrences.

By the way, here’s a fun little something I wanted to share…

Falling To Pieces