The Weaveling
Olivia Chartrand has killed her husband. In order to escape the hangman, she must enter into a dark world, and things don’t turn out the way she had hoped.
A dark and brooding tale of a frontier that never was, The Weaveling is rated PG-13. Click on the link to view the PDF in your browser. If you want to save it for later, right-click, and choose ‘Save Link As’ (in Firefox, Internet Explorer should have similar wording) to save it.
This is a free work of fiction. Please forward it, email it, or otherwise send it wherever you like. All I ask is that you don’t alter the story in any way, and that you leave the notice at the end of the document attached.
It’s about fourteen thousand words, so it’s a long short story or a very short novel (hence, a ‘novelette’). It’s lunchtime, not coffee-break, length.
Praise for The Weaveling:
Dean Cochrane’s The Weaveling is dark, atmospheric, real and haunting. I’d be raving about this novelette even if I’d bought it, but free fiction doesn’t get much better than this.
— Wendelin, Nandini’s Niche
5 Comments so far
5 Responses to “The Weaveling”
Nandini on 03 Nov 2006 at 8:27 am #
Loved it! I’ve put up a link on my blog.
Balls and Walnuts - more than you ever wanted to know » Morning pimpage on 16 Nov 2006 at 8:21 am #
[...] Morning pimpage By Walnut Last night, I read Dean Cochrane’s The Weaveling, which he wrote for PBW’s eBook challenge. The story begins in the familiar territory of rural horror but soon breaks fresh ground. The ending is far from predictable. [...]
Jaye Patrick on 22 Nov 2006 at 8:03 pm #
Excellent story, Dean. You’re right, it was long enough for a lunch time read.
I’m making a list of faves from PBWs challenge and putting a link to them; but for the moment, NaNo is taking up my time.
Amanda on 13 Dec 2006 at 9:49 pm #
Dean;
That was one of the best novellas I’ve read in years, it didn’t stick to a formula the way so many smaller books need to do. I hope I’ll be able to find and read many more of your stories. Thank you for the afternoon entertainment.
Dean on 15 Dec 2006 at 5:22 am #
I’ve been remiss in commenting on this. Thank you all. I really enjoyed writing this one. I’m not much of a horror/creepy fan – I never watch horror movies, for example – so I think that’s why the story doesn’t follow conventional lines.