This is what happens when you have no idea what order a story happens in, you just know it as you're told it, as you feel it - the pieces somehow (hopefully) falling together to make something whole.

This is also what happens when you start writing something and a secondary character takes over and pushes aside your lead character. He's like that.






Originally, this began as a collection of stories about Sebastian, Xan and Justin - childhood friends who had hit a point in their lives where things were starting to fall apart and pull them away from each other - set in the context of Sebastian and Catherine (Kitty) meeting and struggling to find a place together.

But then I realized the meat of the story surrounding these three friends happens before Seb and Kitty ever meet. And at the center of that history is Xan.

So this folder is now all about Xan and I'm just going to let him speak to see where the hell he takes me.







Alexander McKinley-Innes lives and plays in Atlantic City. His best friends Sebastian and Justin, along with his grandmother, half-sister Kitty and her son Kieran are all the family he has ever had and has ever needed. But then a shake-up in Justin's family sends Xan down a path he's tried to avoid his whole life - one that spirals out of control too fast for him to hold on to his heart.





> This is happening out of order. Xan tells me about his life in spurts - a moment here, a moment there. So that's how I'm writing it. I'll try to keep it posted in chronological order, but I'm definitely not writing it in chronological order.