Mikyal Martinus - Writer on Reedsy Prompts

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Daughter of the Mountain Star

Submitted to Contest #117

Lexi stood at parade rest before the Elven Elders of the Council of Twelve to receive their verdict. The elven audience in the Grand Grotto amphitheater behind Lexi became silent while she shivered because of the mountain night air that swished through the pine forest. The Queen arose. Torchlight flic...

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Sing to the Stars

Mikyal Martinus

Submitted to Contest #39

“No, run! Getaway. Run!” Sing-to-Stars chest tightens, making it hard to breathe. Beads of sweat formed on her forehead. She thrashed on her basketweave bed then bolted to a sitting position. Her eyes reflected the flames from a campfire just outside her wooden hut’s door and her pupils dilated in terror. She threw off her blanket, put on her shawl, and ran barefooted into the night. Three Indian men of Central Mexico’s Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains in the year 1910 spoke in hush tones while they sat around the campf...

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Passage of the Midnight Cry

Mikyal Martinus

Submitted to Contest #38

Forrest House looked distorted to Kaycee Rego through the rain-splattered windshield of her mother’s Chevy Blazer. Grandma Krissy died and left this pre-civil war home, located in Savannah, Georgia to Kaycee's mother. They parked in front of the colonial house and they proceeded to unload their luggage. Kaycee slung her backpack over her shoulder and thumped her suitcase up the wooden stairs to the veranda. The caretaker, Ms. Doris Cook, greeted them at the front door. “Welcome Mrs. Rego to Forrest House.”&n...

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Author bio

I love telling stories and I am learning new things about the craft all the time. My formal training in writing is limited. I have taken only one English literature college course. I am mostly self taught by studying the writing techniques of the masters. Twenty-one masters to be exact. I've got a long way to go. I had a lot of life adventures, eg. military, medical field, robots, world travel, and feel it is now time to share them.

I like science fiction and fantasy. Some of my favorite authors are Edgar Rice Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, and Arthur C. Clarke. I also like historical fiction and non-fiction biographies. I envision a world where a person from our time and culture is transported to a place and time where the fantastic and the unbelievable becomes real and possible.