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    Your writing critiqued

    Jun 02, 2022 6 minutes

    CA Middleton is a father and grandfather who has always enjoyed making up tales. Words Matter Publishing published his first novel, a twisted supernatural, The Custodian: Circle of Sorrow, two years ago. The sequel, The Custodian: Breaking the Circle, and a children’s fantasy for his grandson, Dexter Booth and the Last Dragon, are coming out in all formats this year. Merlin has always fascinated him, and is the subject of his new manuscript The Wizard’s Mentor. Book One: Sacrifices.

    Merlin Emrys awoke in his usual foul mood.1 The wizard knew, as always, 2 the futility of attempting to escape. Yet, with long in-grained stubbornness, 3 he tried anyway.4 Fifteen hundred long5 years had passed since his one-time apprentice, Morgana, or The Harridan as he scathingly6 referred to her, 7 trapped him within his cold, uncomfortable8 crystal prism prison.9 Every conscious minute passed like an excruciating death knell.10 For the first few minutes 

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