Category: Fantasy
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Hemlock: Chapter 1
THE DECIMATION OF MIDVOR Six Years After The Escape Dusk lay uneasy on the abandoned farmland. Crops grew out of control, wheat on the ground, too heavy for its stalks. Corn slumped, raided by crows and other birds. A hush had fallen over the surrounding land, and Rayph Ivoryfist and Sisalyyon stood on the road…
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Beacon: Chapter 1
SPARK TO FIRE Five Years After The Escape Jordai Stonefist saw Aaron the Marked turn his back from the bar, and the drinks they pretended to drink, to glance at the pub behind them. Then he turned back to Jordai. “We are done. We have to move,” Aaron said. He slipped his hand in his…
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Scorch: Chapter 1
TACK Five Years After The Escape He waited, for it was all about patience. The leader of the bandits gripped Tesea by the throat and held a blade against her breast. Tack watched from his spot on the caravan roof and the man nodded. “Throw the bow, boy!” the man yelled. Tack spun, shooting twice…
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Song: Chapter 1
THE GUARD OF MENDING KEEP One Year After The Escape The serving boy’s face was stained green with disgust and horror. He looked about to be sick, about to flee, about to weep. Rayph saw the trembling lip and the panic in the eyes, and he knew what the boy was carrying. It was small,…
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Fate of Madness: Chapter 1
THE HOUNDS OF PABLE Two Years After The Escape Rextur moved through the reeds, listening to the harsh grasses scratching against his plate mail. The men around him hunkered down, keeping their heads below the tops of the reeds, approaching the City of Rivers undetected. But Rextur would not. He walked bold and unafraid of…
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Plight of Madness: Chapter 1
BO AND THE LEGIONS OF WINTER One Year After The Escape Bo looked out of the prow of the Blizzard, water and fog rolling off it. As the mighty ship pulled closer, clouds billowed, the fog dropping away to a light dusting of frost. Bo snarled, digging his claws into the ship’s deck, and turning…
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Wrath of Madness: Chapter 1
THE MEN OF SKY COUNTRY One Year After The Escape Aaron the Marked crouched outside the village, his king chief Peter Redfist and his brother Jordai Stonefist beside him. Thousands of warriors bedecked in thick steel, bearing brutal weapons, stomped past them and headed into the heart of the town. They had come from distant…
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Crisis of Fate: Chapter 1
THE END OF THE WORLD The Year of The Escape Her nails dug trails of blood in his back, and he winced. He gripped her hair and pulled her head back, staring into her eyes as he thrust madly into her. Never before. Never before had it been this passionate, this alive. Having Sai inside…
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Onslaught of Madness: Chapter 1
THE MADNESS Weeks Before The Escape The weight of the blade on his back increased as workers drove home the stakes that secured the last stones in the arch. The tent, stifling and oppressive, seemed overwhelmed by the structure. He looked behind him, to the modest cot waiting for his weary body, and cursed. “Master,…
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Mestlven: Chapter 1
FESTIVAL OF THE PALE The Year of The Escape The Pale, the goddess of death, fixed her rotting eyes squarely on the city of Mestlven where grew a darkness, patient and terrible. Her murder lifted from the battlefields of Corlene to swoop and brood on Mestlven’s roofs and scream at her citizens. Enormous crows, two…
Jesse Teller 