Well I’m back to writing again. In fact yesterday was a really good day. I wrote almost 11k in a new story in the Guardians universe. Lately I am finding a lot of new words and characters to work and play in Harry’s part of my worlds. Yesterday I met Lee, a thirty something quiet type of person who is a part of the Hidden. Those magic or will workers who don’t want the world to know what they are. Thos3e who haven’t quite melted into the Other society and are afraid of how the regular human would deal with them.

I was really affected by her story. She had me in literal tears in parts! I don’t usually cry when I am writing fiction. Writing poetry, yeah that can make me cry cause itis all about my emotions, but a piece of fiction? Well yeah that was a new one. She will be dealing with people based off of real people in my past of course and even a scene or two out of my memories. Plus she will be interacting with other characters who I haven’t finished their tales yet. So very many characters are clamoring for their own stories to be told. here is hoping I can get their stories out this year.

Now to peak the curiousity of my faithful and patient followers here is the opening to Lee’s story, I will Protrect you”

I will Protect you

a guardians of the gate city side story

by Lisa Williamson

Magic can be really individual. One person can have the ability to call fire, another ice, but it still magic. In this world those of us that can use magic or are magic ten to hide in plain sight. Like all the fae and shifters, we have found ways to blend in with the overwhelming amount of normal everyday humans.

Now I’m not claiming to be anything like a fae or shifter. No, I’m just your average, quiet type who fades into the background most days and that is how I like it. I get up, put on my work face and spend the better part of the day being a voice on the phone at a call center. I t doesn’t pay lots like some seem to think. Just an hourly rate with a little extra from taking orders, enough to pay rent on the one bedroom apartment I live in and food for my little friends.

You see I really prefer animals to humans. Not surprising after eight hours dealing with both coworkers and customers right? I’m not a social butterfly like many of those in my office. I prefer my home, a good book and music over going to a club with the people I have to spend hours with.

I keep my space at work bare of most things except the tiny altar I set up. Now to most it just looked like a pretty glass ball with flecks that shimmer in the right light. In reality it was a warding anchor I had made. Inside the thick globe of glass was tiny mental representations of the elements and when I shake it and whisper, a simple shield springs up around me just big enough to cover my cubicle. It was something simple and it kept the annoyances to a minimum.

You see my special magic is shield and bindings. Years ago I learned that I could manipulate the energies of the universe, if in a minor way. I had found out by surprise that I could bind things by simply closing my eyes and focusing on holding the energies with my mind. I can even bind the power of another will worker.

It was an emergency at the time I first did this, so it ended up stronger than I meant. You have to understand that I did it to save a friend’s sanity. He was unable to control the dark magic that washed through is blood. He was a good young man who had a bit of a temper. Once his temper allowed the magic out of the tight bonds he kept around it and he nearly killed me and the one person dearest to his heart. I managed to lock it down tight, sadly it had more of an effect than I intended.

Stay tuned for other excerpts of my WIP and updates on other things.