Another update to The First Brother

Salutations!  An odd greeting for me being arachnophobic, but I tolerate cartoon spiders.  Announcing the next big set of updates to The First Brother.  Hit the link here or right above this and check it out! http://kleinnak.blogspot.com/p/first-brother.html

Well that was quick!  Announcing the first updates to The First Brother, added most of a new chapter and about another 1,500 words from before.  Did a bit of updating and editing in the earlier chapters too.  Catch it here, or click the link above! http://kleinnak.blogspot.com/p/first-brother.html

The First Brother

Hey all!  Announcing my newest project, The First Brother.  This is a fairly drastic change thematically from my other two projects, though I admit that at this point I'm probably going to drop Cain and Lucifer at this point.  I like the start, but I really have no idea where I'm going to go with it from here.

Thematically, The First Brother gets much of its inspiration from both the classic westerns and Japanese Anime and Manga.  Its plot follows Ichiro Itano (or more correctly Itano Ichiro, if you put the family name first).  Ichiro is given up by his parents at the age of ten with ten other boys to be trained to serve as the body-guard/assassin to a mob boss.  However, Ichiro soon learns that his leader is no ordinary mobster, and his service will soon test him in ways he never imagined.

Cain and Lucifer

Hello everyone!  Just writing to post the first part of my new sort of "webnovel", Cain and Lucifer.  I'm hoping to be able to post a chapter or so a week, give or take, and you at home get to follow along as it's written.  Don't you feel special!  Anyway, I won't give any spoilers or anything away right now, just read and I hope you enjoy the mystery as it unfolds!

The German in "Beginning" and a call for translators.

As an advisory notice:
Yes, I'm fully aware that the German being spoken in "Beginning" is most likely rubbish.  It's been far too long since I took German in high school so I had to rely on less than reliable methods of translation.  I intend to do the dialogue in the native languages of all countries involved.  Nothing bugs me more than people speaking languages in books/films/television/etc that they would not normally be speaking.  That being said, I'm now announcing a call for translators.  I'll need German obviously, but in the future I will need Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Polish, Finnish, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Greek, Italian, French, Czech and Slovakian.  I may not need all these as sometimes the nature of stories doesn't require dialogue (as in pt. 2 of "Beginning" and pt. 1 of "Letters") but if anyone can offer assistance in these languages in the future, or knows anyone who would be willing to offer said assistance, I would be most grateful.  Thank you in advance.

- Nathan

Story Update Again

Newly updated the story, including a title change, something perhaps a bit less hokey.  It's now called Conflict, and includes the short story Beginning.  I have also included "History" sections on each chapter that explains the background a bit of what's going on in the main stories both historically and what was involved in the writing of the story.  You can read it if you haven't found it yet by clicking "Conflict" right above this post.  Cheers!

Story Update

Just updated "Snapshots" (I know, woohoo right? Only been a whole half hour!) Well just couldn't stand letting a product sit on the shelf without letting it out there for the audience enjoy.

New Launch

Hello one and all, and welcome to the Mind of Kleinnak, my sort of sounding board for my works of fiction (short stories, etc) and where I hope to begin to launch my "web-novel" in the near future.  Please visit and enjoy, the first piece that's up is "Letters" under the page "Snapshots", which I hope to compile into a collection of short stories in the near future as well.