Next Town Over is on a semi-hiatus due to my first kid and my eroded buffer. I didn’t want to leave the place sit idle during this indeterminate span, though, so I asked you what you wanted to see in the interim, and you overwhelmingly voted for a visually simpler short story I could keep up with updating while I square away motherhood and the first NTO collection (thanks for your unbelievable support!). This is it.
Black and Hunter will eventually return in Next Town Over Book 5: Wayward.
Ahh. So it’s both hands, well then. It would’ve been funnier if it had just been his left, but whatever.
Great job.
Agreed.
I wonder whether, because the demon has control of part of his soul, his ‘muse’ will be different. Genevieve may be a completely different character to what she was before.
Possibly. Then he is screwed.
Still going to run out of ink though. I wonder if he’s going to sell another third for an everlasting source of ink, and then something else will go wrong and there goes the whole of his soul…
The ink could also be his blood, but a theory. I like your theory.^-^
I am just wondering where the everlasting ink would come from…
I now have pen nibs for fingernails…and I am completely thrilled.
Guess his art is his life.
He’s thrilled now, but wait until he has to go to the rest room or scratch an itch!
Achievement unlocked: Gold Star
Boy, these clouds look so… uh… bad omens…
Yes,I agree with Occam. Those clouds bode ill for mister Auhtor!
Isn’t that just the sun setting?
Either way, seems the only things that could go wrong now are a lack of ink or paper… Wait, just how macabre are we going to get here?
10 gets ya twenty he now has lost the creative ability to bring Genevieve to life. that’s how demons get you they give you nice things without talking about side-effects
Handy!
I know I really shouldn’t, but I… I kind of want one.
In the original 24 hour comic version of this the guy wasn’t a prose writer but a comic artist; long story short: yeah, so do I.
Oh! That makes a lot of sense! Maybe if I, I dunno, got a lot of hot glue and some finger guitar picks or something…
I think that he’s going to start wearing gloves