Coming Soon: THE BLOOD COIL (Patreon)

The Blood Coil — The Needle Remembers What the Bone Never Forgot

The rain is still on Dorian’s skin when he walks into the parlor for his first night. Sketchbooks under one arm, a cut on his lip that hasn’t quite closed, and a tattoo across his chest that does not belong to any shop Jaxx has ever seen.

Jaxx has spent years reading skin. He knows the difference between a mark someone chose and a mark that was already there. This one answers back, then learns to bite.

The Blood Coil is my attempt at the AI equivalent of a prestige television series that opens the door Clive Barker left ajar and then keeps walking. This initial offering is my attempt at a true prestige television opener, and the first episode. It never has that Americana-gone-wrong feel of Stephen King - it's pure Clive Barker oppression of the otherworld from the first seconds. The artwork and colors are not 'usual' - more along the lines of a graphic novel (the artistic intention at first was to be like a constantly moving tattoo). The angles are not usual, and reality gives way in certain portions. I am proud of the script and the AI cinematography is some of my best, and the whole thing is, well, just all a bit... off... which means it is right.

The Blood Coil is available exclusively on Patreon. It is not streaming anywhere else and never will be. Members receive the full first episode the moment it drops, along with the rest of the series when those episodes drop.

For anyone who has been waiting to see what happens when a tattoo parlor becomes the place old wounds — really really old wounds — wake up, the answer is already on Dorian’s chest.

18 days until this chance to delve into the unknown.