Ben Drinkwater

Tag: fiction

  • Yet Another Update

    It’s not been lost on me that it’s been almost an entire year since I did anything on this site, whether that’s posting an update (like this one) or updating R.E.N/D. The truth is, I lost my motivation for many months… And when it came back again, there was another novel I had to write.…

  • R.E.N/D Chapter 18: Answers

    5:14am, Friday the 10th October, 2132. For more than an hour Aiden sat in a wheeled desk chair, spinning idly in slow circles as Zhang Xinyue worked. The doctor knew him, that much was evident, and yet Aiden had no memory of the man at all. He had followed him to his apartment with the…

  • R.E.N/D Chapter 17: Never Cry Again

    4:36am, Friday the 10th October, 2132. In the aftermath of his talk with Nami, Kato’s mind raced. He was ushered out of her room by disapproving nurses, and sent back to his own like a scolded child as they rushed in to help her. In the following quiet, he lay back against his pillows and…

  • R.E.N/D Chapter 16: Recovery

    4:02am, Friday the 10th October, 2132. “Yes, I’m okay… Yeah, he’s okay too… No, Mom, honestly I’m fine… No, you don’t have to come… Look, I’d better go… Alright, thank you… Goodnight… I love you too. Bye.” Greaves’ voice woke Kato from a slumber as dark as death, and he was at once both utterly…

  • R.E.N/D Chapter 15: The Beast

    3:33am, Friday the 10th October, 2132. Aiden watched as the newly arrived bikers came shooting down the road towards him, their headlights so blinding that he was forced to shield his eyes with his arm. He was expecting them to attack him, to run him down just as the others had tried, but they did…

  • R.E.N/D Chapter 14: Ride-By Swinging

    3:03am, Friday the 10th October, 2132. The monk looked across at Aiden from behind his steaming tea, and sipped it slowly as the young man’s doubts were revealed. “You are lost,” said Shinran, turning to peer at the green of the garden outside. Even in in the middle of the night, that green was vibrant.…

  • An Update and A New Novel.

    About R.E.N/D Not really sure what to say in this, so I’m just going to wing it and see where I end up. First, I want to say thanks to the people who are reading R.E.N/D. There aren’t many, but every person who is, is a person I didn’t expect! I half expected for it…

  • R.E.N/D Chapter 13: Unexpected Wisdom

    1:45am, Friday the 10th October, 2132. When the doors of the service elevator opened, Aiden stepped out into an abandoned corridor. It was dark and hadn’t been cleaned for some time, and the high ceiling was shrouded in a darkness above him. He had to wonder if something lurked in those shadows; watching him, hunting…

  • R.E.N/D Chapter 12: Something Not Right

    1:18am, Friday the 10th October, 2132. When the man in white forensics overalls took his photographs of the crime scene, the flashes were red in Kato’s eyes. They should have been bright white, clear and blinding like a spotlight, but instead he saw flashes of crimson viscera that made him squirm with each picture taken.…

  • R.E.N/D Chapter 11: Chaos

    12:17am, Friday the 10th October, 2132. “This place looks dodgy,” said the dark-skinned woman, her teal hair almost luminescent beneath the lights of the midnight street. Though she was hardly the only woman with bright hair that night, none of the others had her confidence or authority, and she wore the blue of her leather…