Stagdale In The Snow

Billboards, movies 
Cultural projections 
For us to see 
I’d rather learn the world myself 

I try not to 
Let premonitions shape my speech 
Seek to educate myself 

TV 
Don’t show me 
Perfect people 
For us to be
Done with following someone else 

Caught in the system 
Need to be a gladiator just to breathe
And expectations
Don’t care about your health

Step up, be the best in town 
Even when a million voices drown you out 
Need a brain from the angels 
A body from the Gods 
I’m struggling 

Sort your life out 
Do it now 
Every one of you 
You’re better than this
Need a brain from the angels 
A body from the Gods 
I’m struggling

Fake news 
What’s on today? 
I crave approval
To let you know my life’s ok
Instagram my dancing, 
share my smiles 
Inject the validation
Into my veins

Linkedin 
Please check my CV 
List of achievements 
Don’t I look good on a screen? 
Hide from real life

Need a brain from the angels 
Body from the Gods 
It’s killing me

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This is a chapter from Few Are Chosen, K'Barthan Series: Part 1, 
Written M T McGuire: Read by Gareth Davies

Our heroine, Ruth, is walking home late at night and realises she's being followed ...

Here's the blurb so you know what it's about:

Meet The Pan of Hamgee: coward, unwilling adventurer and, by some miracle, K’Barth’s longest surviving outlaw. He just wants a quiet life so working as getaway driver is probably a bad career move. Then he falls in love at first sight with a woman he hasn't even met who comes from an alternative reality. That’s when things really begin to get complicated.

Meet Ruth Cochrane: she’s the Chosen One, destined to play a pivotal role in saving K’Barth from a cruel dictator. She’s never heard of K’Barth, though. She’s a public relations executive from London and she’s totally unaware of the chaos about to hit her life.

Meet Lord Vernon: power hungry psychopath on the brink of world domination. He wants to cement his hold on K'Barth by kidnapping the Chosen One and forcing her to marry him. Only one person is standing in his way: someone who doesn’t even realise it, The Pan of Hamgee. For The Pan, and Ruth, that’s a deadly problem.

Few Are Chosen, K'Barthan Series: Part 1 Chapter 37

First single with Tsatsamis from my upcoming Dancing Days EP !!!

Dancing Days

Look Away

Humorous science fiction fantasy author ... the books are quite funny too ... 

M T McGuire enjoys the real world but wouldn't want to live there full time. That's why she writes books. She grew up, or at least got bigger, halfway up a windy down in Sussex. Her home was also the first location choice for Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films, so maybe it's not so strange that she's ended up writing spec-fic. Perhaps there's something in the water up there, apart from chalk.

After a short stint as a stand up comedienne, M T sat down, got married and moved to East Anglia. She now lives in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, with a McOther, a McMini, a McCat and a selection of very silly cars. She hasn't found a way to make any of the cars fly, and none of them is fitted with ordnance, but she and her team of evil scientists are working on that.

M T would like to be able to tell you she's an NY Times best selling author but that would be lying. Some of her books have won Wishing Shelf Awards though, a bronze and a silver.

Despite being over fifty now and supposedly an adult, M T checks all unfamiliar wardrobes for a gateway to Narnia. She hasn't found one so far but lives in hope.

Few Are Chosen, K'Barthan Series: Part 1 Chapter 37

M T McGuire

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