The Defenders Pasha tugged his sister up from where they’d hidden under Bora lake and watched the bizarre scene play out. Her face was round, with a small mouth and wide set, slanted eyes. She was a child—not even thirty, yet—but she looked even younger. Tears mingled with fishy lake water, now black and grey […]
The Black Wall-Prologue
“Guilty.” The Grace’s word reverberated through the Hall. The Grace of Fom, an angular, thin woman with hair and eyes the color of unpolished iron, waited for the echo of her verdict to die before continuing. “General Albertus Mann, you are condemned to the Pit for public viewing until dead, for sedition, treason, and the […]
The Black Wall: Chapter One
The Invasion: Six Months Before the Verdict Bodies lay strewn, pale against the rich brown ground. Blood muddied the soil between the trunks of massive trees, churned until its hue matched the broad, fern-like leaves grasping the sky. Long-beaked scavenger birds, red breasted with gleaming black wings, hunched in the lower branches, silent and waiting. […]
The Major Locations of Eris
The Kalis Experiments-Prologue
(This is the prologue of Book 1 of the Tides Trilogy, originally picked up by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. Unfortunately I was forced to part ways with them, and so am looking for a new home. In the meantime, it can live here, a little bit at a time.) Prologue: The Death of […]
The Kalis Experiments – Chapter 1: The Beginning
It was strange that Ormo had asked Syrina to meet him in his suite instead of his Hall, and it pricked at her thoughts as she crossed the broad courtyard toward the Palace where the fifteen towers of the Syndicate crowded together like a bundle of blunt, loosely bound spears. The northern sky was thick […]
THe Kalis Experiments – Chapter 2: The Accounting Problem
It wasn’t Lees’ name that Ormo gave her then. It was more than a year before that name came up. In the meantime, things returned to business as usual for Syrina, with the addition of Triglav. Watch him, steal that, kill her. Working with the owl almost immediately became as natural for Syrina as it […]