My mate and fellow indie author, Rocky Rochford, has released his latest work, Scars and Souvenirs. This is a collection of shorts from Rocky and we're pleased to share the details with you here at the Emporium.
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Every
scar tells a story, a tale of loss, or a tale of regret. The scars on
my arms an echo of when times were hard. The scars on my eyes of the
dreaded horrors I can never unsee. The scars on my soul a lasting
memory of the sins that tore my soul apart. The scars on my heart
from a love forever lost. The scars on my wrists, the end result of a
failed attempt to end a life of brokenness. Each scar is a story. A
story begging to be told.
Scars & Souvenirs is a Collection of
10 stories. The following is an extract from the Devil Came to Drag
Me to Hell
“You will bleed. You will cry. You will
love and you will say goodbye to all those you hold dear. Life is
repulsed by
shadow and you reek of it. I looking forwards to watching the show.”
His words
made perfect sense.
Of course they would—they were my own.
Words I would tell myself when I was all
alone.
The Devil knows all.
Especially the one that sits on your
shoulder.
In the depths of your soul.
“Your wound
isn’t deep and the knife didn’t hit anything vital. You will go
on to live, knowing this is what you do to people. The poison that
flows through your veins always finds a way to push those you hold
dear away, no matter how hard you try to cling to them. You are the
villain, John, and the villain is destined to fail.”
He reached out and
grabbed me. His hands on my throat squeezed and then he began to drag
me. The world I had left
returned.
As did the sound of my heart beating.
And the air in my lungs.
My eyes opened.
I gasped.
The Devil had come to
drag me to Hell,
but
like he said for the likes of me. There is only one kind of Hell,
the
life of an endless nightmare I live on a daily basis.
He dragged me back to
my old life.
A life of scars.
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Rocky Rochford’s website:
rockyrochford.wordpress.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RockyRochford
Amazon page:
http://www.amazon.com/Rocky-Rochford/e/B00O3AA3KU/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1449272442&sr=8-1
****Welcome to the World
of Rochford****
your
standard guy scuba dives, partakes in underwater photographer and is
a wake-boarding, adventure seeking, sword collecting, marine
conservation supporter. After living life on the road and the places
between, Rocky Rochford is your standard guy, if he finally settled
down but not without benefiting from all the lessons life had to
teach him.
Self-professed
“Student of Everything, and Master of Nothing,” Rochford does not
choose what he writes, but writes what chooses him, be it fantasy,
crime, poetry, philosophy or even adventure. Life is a journey we all
get to experience, just like a good book.
Every
read into another of his typed works is another trip into the
imagination
of his mixed up, crazed and deranged mind and this year along those
works include the likes of full novels and novellas such as:
And
now The
Eye of Mares – Book 2 of the Rise of the Elohim Chronicles
(Illustrated
YA fantasy adventure)
Other works released by him, are a number of
short stories pertaining to horror, paranormal and romance, as well
as other works released as part of an anthology:
The
Food of Love
(featuring Him & Her) – An Anthology by Solstice Publishing
(Romance
filled Anthology)
Now
I Lay Me Down to Sleep Volume II
(featuring The Devil Before) – An Anthology by the Solstice Shadows
(Paranormal
themed Anthology)
Awethology
Dark
(featuring Ghosts) – An Anthology by the #Awethors (Adult
stories pertaining to a darker theme)
The
December Awethology Dark Volume
(featuring Seven Years Bad Luck) – An Anthology by the #Awethors
(Adult
stories pertaining to a darker theme, set around December)
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