Happy New Year everyone! I hope 2024 is starting on the right foot for all of you. 2023 certainly ended on a wild note for House Bush, but we are grateful to see where the new year takes us!
As some of you may know, one of my hobbies is collecting antique postcards. I enjoy researching the people who wrote and received them, and then trying to return the postcards to living relatives of the original authors. It's a fun research project when I have free time!
Sometime back, I saw a vintage New Year's postcard similar to this one at an antique store. It depicts an old man, representing the Old Year, passing the year over to a baby New Year. It lurked in the back of my mind, and I thought it would make a neat basis for a story.
Well, the time for that story has come! Inspired by that postcard, I wrote a New Year's story about Janus, the two-faced Roman god of beginnings and endings. It's publishing tomorrow, January 5th, at gohavok.com, and I'm really excited for y'all to read it! (My wife said it's one of my best stories, if that tells you something...)
Havok is a unique website for flash fiction; they provide 1 free story every day on their website, but the story is only available for 24 hours. After that, the stories go into their archives, accessible only to members. (The membership is very worthwhile if you love flash fiction.) So, be sure to check out my story tomorrow while it's available!
Other Works by Ryan Bush
Fantasy Short Stories
A Time Between Spaces - Free!
The Painter (The Kineru Chronicles vol. 1) - Free!
The Goddess of Storms (The Kineru Chronicles vol. 2) - 99¢
Wayfaring Stranger - 99¢
Storing up Treasures - Havok membership
Horror Short Stories
People Keep Dying in My Backyard - Free!
The Wreath - Free!
The Canyon of Se’l Hathoreth - 99¢
Other Short Stories
The Puppy Wrangler - Free!
The Green Goddess - Havok membership
The Iggle - Havok membership
Short Story Anthology
Vice and Virtue: Havok Season 8 - $3.99 on Kindle!