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  • Nadiel the Archangel

    I would like to thank Estelle for the introduction and high praise. She does have better authorities at her disposal, when it comes all matters concerning angelology and demonology, but she knows as well as I do that the Authority has more pressing matters to attend to. Nonetheless, she’s left all the rest for me to impart to you. I noticed that she failed to mention some pertinent details as to why I’m here, and I take it that she doesn’t want me to spoil the surprise that awaits all patient readers.

    I am called Nadiel. I lack a surname because I am older than names. I am an angel. To be even more precise, I am an Archangel, the highest of the twelve orders of angels in what was Heaven. And presently, I am masquerading as Sage Holloway, a fifteen-year-old human-angel hybrid known as a Nephil. Sage is off receiving her training to become a warrior, and as her parents would have problems understanding the reason for her absence, I have been tasked with assuming her place as her clone. So far, her parents haven’t really noticed that there’s any difference between the two of us. I have always been an excellent mimic. It’s nice to know that my skills haven’t faded.

    I promise to write every Tuesday until further notice about my history and the history of the angels soon enough, along with the histories of ghosts, vampires, werewolves, zombies, etc, but unfortunately Sage’s summer math tutor assigned her an unforgiving amount of geometry proofs to work on. I would handle it on my own without any trouble at all, but as Sage’s most challenging school subject is math, I have to pretend to ask for her parents’ help in completing it before they go to bed in order to keep up appearances.

    Dominus tecum.

  • Introductions

    I like writing about monsters.

    The history of storytelling, from time immemorial, features a literal pantheon of monsters. Most of the stories that we, as a human culture, have carried forward through the millennia involve the defeat of one monster or another, even though occasionally we are entranced by a story in which the monsters are not to be defeated but must be transformed into our friends. Regardless of plot and characters, monsters are part of the mythic that we apply to daily life, that we see within everything to give our lives meaning. Even though we live in an age in which monsters have been relegated to the metaphorical rather than the literal, we still put great stock in them. Time and again, our fascination with monsters highlights two conditions within the human struggle: they show us where we are weak, and we find ourselves edified when we overcome the obstacles they have set before us.

    Over the better part of the last year, I’ve dedicated myself to the creation of a young adult trilogy that features monsters. The first book is finished, and the second book is underway.

    This blog is meant to be a repository for thoughts about monsters. However, as I am but a mere novice to the world of monsters, I must defer to a superior source. Her name is Nadiel, and I discovered her astonishing insight into the world of monsters when I first put her thoughts and actions within the pages of my own meager story. It only seems fair that she should share her knowledge with the rest of you, my dear readers. She really does have a tremendous amount of time on her hands since I marooned her in the bedroom of a fifteen-year-old girl for an indeterminate amount of time.

    (Oh, how cruel are we writers to our characters!)

    ♥

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