The Lead Crown: Ch 4c, Reversal of Fortunes (Pt 1)
Tranquil Waters: The Lead Crown Ch 4-1, Reversal of Fortunes If the several days spent healing among the underground church had tested Alarice's patience, then the quiet, shadow-to-shadow movement through Newport's city streets that night tested her...
Sauna Fish
Those last customers had been the worse, three very overweight bears who'd just sat there steaming and stinking, running eid ragged with orders for more beer and steam.
The Lead Crown: Ch 2b, Outside Influence (Pt 2)
Tranquil Waters: The Lead Crown Ch 2-2, Outside Influence Friar Arlowe chose to sit near the fire for the night. Although it was easily arguable that he wasn't QUITE aged enough to say he had 'old bones', the cool weather certainly seemed to settle...
The Lead Crown: Ch 3c, Making Friends (pt 1)
He smiled to himself as he sat at his work desk, remembering fondly the scream that emerged from sada who, apparently, was not used to a steam transport.
The Lead Crown, Chapter 2-6: Thaddius
Tranquil Waters: The Lead Crown Ch 2-6, Thaddius It was Thursday; Thaddius never particularly liked Thursdays. Not only were they the least eventful of all days, but the Church's schedule meant that Brother Maynard didn't often find time to visit...
Getting in Harms Way
They say either ya love the city or ya hate it. As the joke goes, if ya hate it, move out. Where's the joke in that? There's nothing else but the city. Yeah, sure, there're the Outlands, and people do live in those forsaken crap...
To the Outlands and Back
I spent enough time with Uma to reduce my testosterone to normal levels. I took another cab across town the next day, all the while with my brain working overtime. I was still intent on finding out who this killer was. I should have...
Tranquil Waters: The Lead Crown, Prologue (The Once and Future King)
Tranquil Waters: The Lead Crown Prologue (Once and Future King) Dear Father, I saw the apparitions again yesterday, but I did not write about it last night for fear that thinking of them would summon them to my dreams. I sat alone in the study after...
The Lead Crown: Ch 1b, Martyrdumb (Pt 4)
Tranquil Waters: The Lead Crown Ch 1-4, Martyr Dumb "Arlowe!" for the beleaguered raccoon dog the call came from across more than just distance... it came from another point in his life... a simpler, more mundane time-- it was his wife, Calani....
The Lead Crown: Ch 1a, Flintlocked and Loaded (pt 4)
Tranquil Waters: The Lead Crown Ch 1-4, Flintlocked and Loaded Kesst pulled his cloak tighter around himself; it wouldn't be effective in the least the moment he was searched but it was a defense mechanism he'd developed over the past several years...
A Different Diplomacy, Part 1: Axe
It is, perhaps, true that the language in question lent itself more towards directness than poeticism. It was a workaday language, designed for a culture that believed speech and literature to be instruments of communication and clarity, largely...
Viggo's Redemption (Prologue)
Book 1 of the age of steam series at long last after sailing for what seemed a decade the port of chethlam appeared beyond the bow of the ship.