Archive for the ‘The Hole’ Category
Posted on August 9, 2008 - by Aaron Ross Powell
The Hole: Outro
THE HOLE, as a serial novel, is completed. Sixteen months of writing and ninety-thousand words and Elliot and Evajean’s journey has ended. I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who’s followed the book–and to everyone who’s just starting it now. Writing THE HOLE has been a terrific experience for me and most [...]
Posted on August 6, 2008 - by Aaron Ross Powell
The Hole: Part 81
The light spread and intensified as they approached the Nephites. The crazies fell back, pushed away in a twenty foot radius, those closest to the edge throwing up their arms. Some screamed. Elliot could only barely hear them. Sounds coming through the light were muffled and had the warble of traveling in water. Beyond the [...]
Posted on July 17, 2008 - by Aaron Ross Powell
The Hole: Part 80
“Jesus,” Elliot said.
“What are they doing?” Evajean said.
The salt lake spread out in front of them, its surface golden in the morning light. They stood on a raised stretch of highway running parallel to shore. Under them was the hard packed dirt of the Utah desert, the wind kicking it into clouds of dust. Elliot [...]
Posted on June 29, 2008 - by Aaron Ross Powell
The Hole: Part 79
Moroni was here, in this world. Both of them knew it as soon as they’d been made aware of the true nature of their quest–the true nature, in fact, of their very purpose. Furthermore, he was in Salt Lake City. That was why the barrier they’d passed through had been erected and why the crazies [...]
Posted on June 20, 2008 - by Aaron Ross Powell
The Hole: Part 78
I am not a bad person. Raised poor, uneducated, and an occasional charlatan, yes, but I am not a bad person. The insects that eat at my corners try to tell me otherwise, but I don’t listen. I am not a bad person.
When God speaks, you have no choice but to listen. I know. I’ve [...]
Posted on June 18, 2008 - by Aaron Ross Powell
The Hole: Part 77
Elliot and Evajean finish reading the journal and learn the truth about the enemies they face.
Posted on June 16, 2008 - by Aaron Ross Powell
The Hole: Part 76
Elliot and Evajean finish reading the first part of Smith’s journal and discover shocking revelations.
Posted on June 1, 2008 - by Aaron Ross Powell
The Hole: Part 75
I’m generally not one to put too much stock in this kind of metaphorical reasoning, but a bloody lamb with a halo, especially in such otherwise unusual circumstances, was too specific in nature to ignore. And Bear was clearly terrified. He stopped speaking after this last statement and now stared off at some [...]
Posted on May 27, 2008 - by Aaron Ross Powell
The Hole: Part 74
This was not the strangest thing I’d heard uttered during my search for the hill Cumorah. Quite the opposite, in fact. But it was said with an an earnestness that made the remark impossible to brush aside as the simple, drunken ravings of a country bumpkin. I asked him to repeat what [...]
Posted on May 23, 2008 - by Aaron Ross Powell
The Hole: Part 73
Elliot sat down. “Here,” he said. “I think it’s safe to open it now.”
They’d left the museum without encountering any trouble and come outside to find Cassandra gone, as expected. That was her mission, Elliot thought. She did it but she didn’t stick around to see how it turned out.
Evajean had [...]
