Shadowed: Something I Haven't Seen Before

I've never seen anyone else do this with a novel before, and neither has anyone I asked.  Have you seen anyone do something like I did with the chapter headings for Shadowed, to add depth, flavor, and unity to a story?

One: When We Take a Step
Two: Our Shadow Walks Behind
Three: On the Day We're Born
Four: A Darkness Assigned
Five: Our Eyes Turn from Darkness
Six: We Try to Walk Away
Seven: Its Presence Always With Us
Eight: Absence Must Stay
Nine: As Time Strides On
Ten: Our Steps May Slow
Eleven: Shadowed Closer
Twelve: We Onward Go
Thirteen: Wish We To Be Followed
Fourteen: Yearn To Tread Alone
Fifteen: Feelings Frustrated
Sixteen: Reaping, We've Sown
Seventeen: A Journey Shadowed
Eighteen: Can Leave Us in Dread
Nineteen: Leading Our Lives
Twenty: But Secretly Led
Twenty-One: We Walk—Run—We're Fleeing
Twenty-Two: We Try, It Matters Not
Twenty-Three: The Light We're Never Seeing
Twenty-Four: The Fate We've Never Sought

(If you're asking, the answer is yes, each chapter title does have something to do with that chapter's contents, and is reflected within it, too.)

P.S. As always, all my fiction is free.  See my entry Ebooks Update for a full list.

New Novel/Free Ebook: Shadowed

It's called the Next World.  Everyone there either disappeared from Earth, or is descended from earlier Arrivals.  People, teratorns, great auks, sleuth hounds, short-faced bears, you name it.

There are six peoples, or if you prefer nations, in the Next World.  Dares who can heal, Aranhas/Simarabos with spirit connections, Bathursts who can turn you temporarily into ghosts.  Not to mention "Reapers," like a young man named March.  Or the Everetts, aka Shadows, five of whom are determined to end a feud they'd started—by killing him.

And they'll pursue him to do so.  Follow him.  To the ends of the earth Next World.

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Some of my best world-building, interesting characterizations, and, as always, a tale as original as I can manage.  A young man and friends, discovering their world, discovering themselves, and striving to stay alive.  All building to a confrontation-style climax.  Plus it's free.

If that sounds good to you, then download it here (edit: you'll need to create an account).  It can be read, downloaded, and shared for free, like all my work these days.  See my entry Ebooks Update for a full list.