Richard-Steven Williams - Murmansk-13

For Oleg, the last moments of his life had surpassed him. At his feet lay Jamal; his trachea torn from his throat, hanging limply from the ragged gash in his neck.

But Oleg didn’t recognized that fact, nor even himself. The electro-chemical impulses that once made him Oleg Goroshko had ceased. As his synapses atrophied and withered, a life of pained memories were erased.

Afghanistan, the herdsman and his family were gone.

What was left was a twisted atavistic id and a senseless need to feed, the single and only desire.

Oleg never even felt pain, when the station burst into flames around him, his body no longer capable of such sensation. He watched as the Red Supergiant consumed his atoms in a cauldron of energy until there was nothing but merciful, eternal darkness.

Richard-Steven Williamsis an alumni of Bath Spa University where he received a BA Honours degree in Creative Studies in English.

Having realised soon afterwards he wasn’t going to make a living writing, he spent three years working as a binman before selling his drum kit and moving to Canada where he became bankrupt.

Returning to the UK broke, Richard joined the Merchant Navy and splits his years between a flat in Glasgow and a product tanker in the Caribbean.

When he is not writing (which is most of the time), Richard can be found travelling between Extreme Metal festivals across the UK, Europe and North America, drunkenly harassing patrons about this book he once wrote. He is also a keen hill walker, avid ice hockey fan and occasionally competent curler (for a Welsh/Englisher). He also still plays the drums… badly.

A fan of science fiction and horror, Richard drew upon his experience working at sea to write his début novel Murmansk-13 in 2017.

Richard can be contacted via:

Twitter: @RSWMurmansk13

Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/murmansk13

Goodreads: Richard-Steven Williams

Email: murmansk-13@hotmail.com

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

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