Available Darkness Season 1

raised his gun and fired a shot at her gut. Two shots, then three, all of them missing.
    Frank staggered back into the dark. The girl kept coming forward. He stumbled all the way into the kitchen, then spun around to flee out the back door, where he was greeted by a heavyset man with wild hair, dressed in all black.
    “Where ya’ going, Frankie?” the man asked with a deranged smile. “The party’s just started.”

    TO BE CONTINUED…
    IN SEASON TWO…

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Thank You

    Sean would like to thank:
    David: This is your story. Thank you for giving me a part, along with a legendary co-writing experience. We still have gigabytes to write, with every book an exciting new bend in a remarkable ride. But there will never be another first. Thanks to all the readers who gave Available Darkness love and fuel our first year running it as an online serial.
    Thanks to Lori Taylor, for slapping me and Dave into finally finishing the book. And to my wife, Cindy, for always making sure I had enough available darkness to get my share of the writing done.

    David would like to thank:
    My wife, for your support, love, and an incredible amount of patience as I spent countless hours holed away writing this act of faith. My son, for teaching me much I didn’t even know I didn’t know. My parents and brother, for your support and love. Lisa, for your friendship, reading my stories, and believing in me. Sean, for making this writing dream a reality and helping bring this story to life long after I had given up on it. Tanya, for your friendship and always being there. My former editor, Jason Whited, for taking a chance on me, teaching me how to be a better writer and making me believe again. Lori, for kicking our asses into finishing this and being the rock star you are! Readers, for your time (and patience on waiting for us to finish this) and letting us share our world with you.
    And finally, Todd, for being the first person to believe I’d be a writer, for kicking my ass when it needed kicking, and for being a true friend unlike any other.
    I miss you.

Author’s Note

    While Yesterday’s Gone was the serial Sean and I are most associated with, it wasn’t our first serial.
    That honor belongs to Available Darkness, which we started writing in 2008 as a serial on the web. While it found a small following, we found the web to be an awkward, non-reader-friendly way to release a serial. We heard from people saying they’d love to read our story, but they’d wait for the paperback.
    At the time, e-books hadn’t yet taken off, and most people still preferred paper books.
    Problem was, we didn’t know the first thing about self-publishing back then. So the book sat unfinished until summer 2011 when we decided to rewrite the first half we’d already written, finish the rest, and put the completed book out in paperback.
    While it sold a small number, profits on self-published print books weren’t gonna cut it unless we had a LOT more readers, or something happened which would make publishing easier and less costly for both authors and readers.
    That something seemed so distant a dream. Most people seemed to favor print books, and saw e-books as the death of literature, which they’d be no part of, thank you very much!
    But then it happened — the societal shift towards e-books, largely ushered in by Amazon’s Kindle. Suddenly people were not only embracing e-books, but e-books were leading paper book sales at Amazon.
    For the first time ever, authors were able to reach a large audience without having to go through the gatekeepers of traditional publishing. Some authors were even starting to make a nice living from their efforts.
    For indie writers, and brave readers willing to take a chance on the unknown, digital publishing had become a beautiful thing.
    We put Available Darkness: Book One out on Kindle, but didn’t do much to promote it at all.
    Because we suddenly had another idea…
    Just moments after finishing one book that took four years to finish, we were about to get right back to work on the thing which would occupy a majority of our waking minutes for the next year.

    SERIALS!
    Sean and I are huge fans of serials.
    We’ve written about them a lot in our other Author’s Notes, so I won’t bore you with the whole origin story. The important