Rendallia’s walls were grey stone against a greyer sky. For Isolde, slumped weary in the saddle, they marked the end of a desperate flight from Valemonde, after days spent pushing horses through sodden fields and skirting villages by night to shake pursuers that shadowed them the entire way to the border. Galer and the two […]
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Patreon: The Barons’ War – Chapter 14
Garris Sinclair practically stomped through the halls of the large manor house, trying very hard not to let his rage overtake him. Newberry’s message had been urgent, but very light on details. Sinclair had almost ignored it. The fast progress he’d made after finally stopping and then reversing the northerner progress at the Battle of […]
Patreon: The Barons’ War – Chapter 13
The sand turned black where Marrow’s Bane struck, slicing through shell and pale meat. The worm bucked, thick as a man’s thigh and thrice the length, convulsed, spilling ichor as it died. Another segmented horror scuttled sideways across the wet sand, its lamprey-like mouth gaping, lunging toward a gap between… [See More on Patreon]
Patreon: Scramble – Chapter 4
The doorbell rang just as I finished wiping down the kitchen counter. I knew it was Li before I even opened the door. She was frighteningly punctual. “Heaven forbid you be two seconds late,” I said, swinging… [See More on Patreon]
Patreon: The Barons’ War – Chapter 12
The damp seeped through the thin pallet, chilling Isolde to the bone with a persistent cold that clung to her. This was the second time she’d been imprisoned, and truth be told, she much preferred her time in Sidorian confinement to that of her… [See More on Patreon]
Patreon: The Barons’ War – Chapter 11
They had walked for hours, all of them tense, trying to see past the torchlight for the thing that had taken his men. The blood trail was hard to follow. There would be a clump of it around what looked to William like well-tilled earth, then nothing for a ways, then another clump. He couldn’t […]