This is my headspace. My safe zone and my go-to. This is where I find refuge from the world and all it throws at this lowly introvert.

When life gets you down, spend time in your head, unless you’re scared of your own thoughts. Then put on some music or read and spend time in someone else’s.

Welcome to your premium ticket to the inside of my brain. I will do my best to make sure you enjoy your stay, but if you’re new you will probably need to do some catching up.

Here, I’ll embed the first post so you can get a taste:

1. Ch1 Sc1 - Five Hundred Bloody Footprints

Jenny Homan

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August 3, 2023

My small bare feet pound the crunchy snow. They are bleeding, again. Wet blood squelches between my toes with each footfall, half-frozen already and leaving behind bright red smears as it crumbles off with the contact. I frown, thinking half-formed curses, as I realize these cuts must be from where I slipped on the rocks on the banks of the stream. That was half a league ago, which means half a league of bloody footprints to enflame the hunting dogs, making them that much faster...

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What is Bottled Embers?

Well, embers in a bottle. Like when you refuse to acknowledge and process your emotions, they get hotter and angrier until one day the bottle bursts and it’s a big explosion and just catastrophe! Don’t do that.

This is a story about a little girl and a couple of guys and just a bit of adventure. No commentary on social issues or politics or anything. In the beginning, it was a way to process those bottled embers that burned holes in my brain. Now it is just a story, a fantasy, that I thought someone else might also get a kick out of, so I will share a little, now and then.

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This is just a taste of what’s in store if you stick around. You can also log in to the website to read the full archives and other posts as they are published, which will usually be on Tuesdays and/or Fridays.

Not to toot my own horn, but it really is much better if you follow from the start, or if you enjoy being confused, and/or disoriented - hey no judgment. Please dive in.

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INDEX

Jenny Homan

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September 28, 2023

Hi there. This is the index page for Bottled Embers, my work in progress. The scenes are listed as they were posted. I will try to keep this as updated as I can, but if you want to be sure you don’t miss anything, the easiest way is to :

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