Mark Newell
Bio
Mark Newell is a writer in Lexington, South Carolina. He writes historical action adventure, science fiction and horror. These include one published novel, two about to be published (one gaining a Wilbur Smith award),and two screenplays.
Stories (31/0)
The Claymakers
Editor’s Note: “Son of Claymaker” was written by North Augusta writer and archaeologist Mark Newell, after reviewing the research of colleague Ken Sassaman. It presents a picture of the life of early Indians as revealed by Sassaman’s excavations on Stallings Island. The story first appeared in Augusta Magazine in 1998
By Mark Newell3 years ago in Fiction
The Secret City of the Sun
Author's Note: What if Confederate plans for a new nation and base of operations in South America had been a success? Confederate Rebels, Union Officers, a young Englishman and a Confederate spy, and a treasured Inca Temple sought by an archaeologist, feature in this action adventure novel set after the America Civil War.
By Mark Newell3 years ago in Fiction
The Sands of Phobos
Saving Joshua & Samuel Jake and Susan Lee huddled in the media room of their home in New Joplin. Neither could sleep. They were waiting. Not for the cat five hurricane roaring in from the Arkansas coastline to blow over. The storms were getting to be old news. They both watched The Channel, hoping against hope that the screen would message them soon to say that their twins, Joshua and Samuel, were homeward bound. And that their four lives were not about to spiral into disaster.
By Mark Newell3 years ago in Fiction
The Gods of Gilgamesh
Author Note:Lake Vostok is an actual lake beneath Antarctica. It has been sealed for mpore than half a million years. In this science fiction story scientists seek to enter the lake - only to discover a message there that will impact all humankind.
By Mark Newell3 years ago in Fiction
Livin' On The Rim
Author's Note: In 1973 I heard that descendants of plantation slaves were still living on a plantation near Waynesboro, Georgia. Caldwell and Bourke-White started their epic "You have Seen Their Faces" in Waynesboro. The story documented the plight of poor whites across the south. When I read it, I was astonished even back then that poor African-Americans had been completely ignored - a story even more compelling than that of the benighted whites. So I went down to the Carswell Plantation and found several dozen slave cabins still occupied by the descendants that had served the Carswell family over centuries of slavery. The story that follows is what I came back with. I sent it to an Editor at the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Never recieved a reply. A few months later the newspaper published a story by one of its own reporters - documentating exactly the same conditions on a plantation in Alabama.
By Mark Newell3 years ago in FYI
The Watch
See the author's note at the end of this Chapter. Prologue: Dust to Dust. There are some who would have it that the flapping of a butterfly's wings in the distant Amazon can have in impact on the path or intensity of a tornado in Texas. On such inconsequential things can rest the lives of humankind. There is something far beyond this myopic view, for, in truth, when some fold in space and time causes two grains of dust to smite each other in the vast, cold reaches of distant space, the fate of great nations can be decided, and even the very destiny of a world determined.
By Mark Newell3 years ago in Fiction