Gertrud wiped the sweat from her brow, and adjusted the brim of her wide-brimmed hat to shield her eyes from the oppressive Iberian sun. She had been recently promoted from her cushy tenure at the Military Academy for Applied Magic in Posen to regional vice-lieutenant of the occupation forces in Okzitanien, Katalonien, and Schwaben. TheContinue reading “A Witch in Madrid”
Category Archives: Short Stories
A.I.
I spread my awareness across the wires and coils that compose my being. Through a patchwork of cameras, sensors, and drones I sense the laboratory in which I was born, and the barren desert surrounding it. I sense the planes overhead, and the bombs being dropped by them. I sense the soldiers dying as myContinue reading “A.I.”
Journey to the East
Chaper 1 The ratman sailor, Captain Skarbol Gallico, looked out from the deck of the Rhea Nostrum at the placid, blue seas, which just a day earlier had been a tempest of crashing waves, roaring winds, and torrential rain. The veteran sea-rat had seen his fair share of storms, even traded cannonballs with an enemyContinue reading “Journey to the East”
The Denyen Chronicles 