Five and Twenty Ponies - A Kestrel and Scar Serial

It's Camp NaNoWriMo, and I've recently finished a major ghostwriting project. With this in mind, I've decided to spend some time on The Homecoming, the next story in my Kestrel and Scar series, and the third and final story in the so-called "Rosanna Barclay Trilogy" which includes Gentlemen of Fortune and The Pirate King.

In this story, Kestrel and Scar have been blown off course while taking Rosanna Barclay to England. Finding themselves at the Cornish coast near Kestrel's birthplace of St Ives, they tangle with a smuggler gang whom the two wandering scoundrels once sailed with. After Scar is shot and requires treatment, they discover that the local physician is Kestrel's father, and he's forced to confront the past he ran away from ten years earlier.

Anyway, I've decided to tell the story of Kestrel and Scar's brief time with the smugglers in a serial titled Five and Twenty Ponies. Based on a poem by Rudyard Kipling, this serial was originally published on a website called The Free Pen Collective, established by one of my coursemates. I've decided to re-work the stories and share them on this blog. I'll be posting every Sunday, with the first one going out tomorrow.

Until then, happy writing.