Wild Strawberry: The Motorcycle Diaries
T.A. Donnelly
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Author's note: This is not a complete novel! It is a short story based on material deleted from Book Two of the Wild Strawberry Trilogy.
I cut thousands of words from my first drafts in the editing process, and most of what is removed doesn’t deserve to see the light of day. ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ are different. This strand from Book Two was deleted because there was ‘too much going on’ and the book was losing focus. Book One has several strands that ‘go nowhere’ as humanity falls to the zombie virus; I wanted book Two to spotlight the survivors who end up in the Bunker. I liked the bikers and I liked the situations I placed them in, but they were a distraction from the main story. At almost 11,000 words it made up around 20% of the novel! So here, as a separate story (perhaps best read as an interlude between Books One and Two) I present the Motorcycle Diaries...