Ricky Marlowe

Writings, and musings, just pieces of me.

Samples

  • The Things Unsaid: Chapter 2

    This is the second chapter to the upcoming novel, The Things Unsaid. The real story starts here, with the family’s central conflict exposed.

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  • The Things Unsaid: Chapter 1

    Angeline’s marriage to Jonathan is a cold war of unspoken resentment. She sees a failed husband; he retreats into silence. After a terminal illness strikes, she is forced to reckon with her own bitterness, both of them having never said the important things to each other until there were only ghosts of regret.

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  • The Prelude to The Blades of Alcrést

    The Prelude to the Blades of Alcrést establishes the end of the Unification War, and the beginning of fifty-four years of tensions that escalate into a war of independence that will engulf the Principality of Nélíssé, The Ílorísían Empire, and the continent of Alcrést. This is the account of Nélíssé’s last day as an independent…

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  • Sea Glass in the Gray

    Sea Glass in the Gray is a coming-of-age story set in a small riverside town, centered around the whirlwind romance between seventeen-year-old Alex, and the visiting sixteen-year-old Natalie. Below is a teaser excerpt from the book, now available!

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