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Novel: The Mystical Wombat's Guide to Life
Genre: Satire, Humor & Parody
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About wurdsmyth

Location: West Midlands, UK

Home Region:
Europe :: England :: Birmingham-West Midlands

Age:34

Website: http://www.mirandadickinson.com

Favorite novels: Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, Going Home by Harriet Evans, The Truth by Terry Pratchett, The Lost Continent by Terry Pratchett, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Favorite writers: Jane Austen, A.A Milne, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Harriet Evans, Markus Zusak, Anne Treneman (The Times), Hugo Rifkind, Norah Ephron

Favorite music: Depends on what I'm writing - I love Elgar for the quieter moments, Newton Faulkner for the chill-outs, Maroon 5 for the funkier inspiration (first album ONLY - their second album is SO entirely awful it beggars belief), Seth Lakeman for historical settings and Christina Aguilera when I just need to leave the keyboard and dance around the room a bit!

Non-noveling interests: Songwriting - see my website to listen to my songs, going to the cinema, citizen journalism stints for MyVillage.com and Helium.com, reading great books in cosy coffee shops and hanging out with my amazing Bob and fab mates.

Joined date: Octubre 19, 2007

NaNoWriMo posts: 23

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The Mystical Wombat's Guide to Life
an excerpt

Maybe it was the utter idiocy of the situation; maybe it was the result of too many emotions swept under the carpet for too long – we shall never know. Even McBee himself, in later years, couldn’t exactly explain what it was that made this particular offence so different from all the others he’d encountered in his life.
Whatever the reason, the fact is that this event was officially The Last Straw for McBee - and came to be known as such.
As McBee fled across the lanes of skidding, swerving and colliding vehicles - that were fast becoming steaming, screaming dog-piles of metal and skin, blood and bone - all he could focus on through the brooding purple-grey haze bubbling across his vision was the wall at the edge of the carriageway – and the strangely beckoning streak of dark silver water, hundreds of feet below the road, stretching out towards the grey horizon.
Unable to think any longer, he moved towards the wall as if propelled by an overpowering, unearthly force. Beset by the pounding of his heart in his ears, combining with the growing sounds of confusion, fear and pain behind him and the taste of burning rubber and flesh catching at the back of his throat, McBee’s mounting, terrifying panic pushed him – quite literally – over the edge.

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