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<\/a><\/td>\nFor those who prefer a taste of the text, here’s an excerpt from the first chapter:<\/p>\n
I first started wearing a Mohawk to repel low-lifes \u2014 barflies, vampires, Republicans, and so on \u2014 but when I found my true profession it turned into an ad. People\u2019s eyes are drawn by my hair \u2014 no longer a true Mohawk, but a big, unruly \u201cdeathhawk,\u201d a stripe of feathered black, purple and white streaks climbing down the center of my head \u2014 but they linger on the tattoos, which start as tribalesque vines in the shaved spaces on either side of the \u2019hawk and then cascade down my throat to my shoulders, flowering into roses and jewels and butterflies.<\/p>\n
Their colors are so vivid, their details so sharp many people mistake them for body paint, or assume that they can\u2019t have been done in the States. Yes, they\u2019re real; no, they\u2019re not Japanese \u2014 they\u2019re all, with a few exceptions, done by my own hand, right here in Atlanta at the Rogue Unicorn in Little Five Points. Drop by \u2014 I\u2019ll ink you. Ask for Dakota Frost.<\/p>\n
To retain the more \u2026 perceptive \u2026 eye, I started wearing an ankle-length leather vest that shows off the intricate designs on my arms, and a cutoff top and lowrider jeans that that show off a tribal yin-yang on my midriff. Throughout it all you can see the curving black tail of some thing big, beginning on the left side of my neck, looping around the yin-yang on my midriff, and arcing through the leaves on my right shoulder. Most people think it\u2019s a dragon, and they wouldn\u2019t be wrong; in case anyone misses the point, I even have the design sewn into the back of a few of my vests.<\/p>\n
But those who live on the edge might see a little more: magical runes woven in the tribal designs, working charms woven into the flowers, and, if you look real close at the tail of the dragon, the slow movement of a symbolic familiar. Yes, it did move; and yes, that\u2019s real magic. Drop by the Rogue Unicorn \u2014 you\u2019re still asking for the one and only Dakota Frost, the best magical tattooist in the Southeast.<\/p>\n
The downside to being a walking ad, of course, is that some of the folks you want to attract start to see you as a scary low-life. We all know that vampires can turn out to be quite decent folk, but so can cleancut young Republicans looking for their first tattoo to impress their tree-hugger girlfriends. As for barflies, well, they\u2019re still barflies; but unfortunately I find the more tats I show the greater the chance that the cops will throw me into the back of the van too if a barfight breaks out.<\/p>\n
So I couldn\u2019t help being nervous as two officers marched me into City Hall East…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
For more, you’ll have to get it on Amazon<\/a> or Bell Bridge<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I hope you enjoy!
-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For those just joining the party, Frost Moon is my first novel, published by Bell Bridge Books and now available on Amazon. A brief introduction: In an alternate Atlanta where magic is practiced openly, where witches sip coffee at local … Continue reading