The Agudner - Preview
The whistling of the sand raking across the fallow sea of land pervaded his mind, adulterated his tongue with the dry, metallic taste of its erosion, and turned the visibility into a goldenrod mist of blindness. The wind blew incessantly, sending...
Meeting the Callagiers
"Isaac, look out the window! We're almost there!" Isaac sighed before he removed his headphones and shut his laptop. He rubbed his eyes before turning to look out the window at the world going by the window. The penultimate collision of nature and...
Summer's Early End
The final two weeks of summer went by quickly. My mother went to work at her job at Universal Studios - she was a marketing manager who happened to hit it big. That was part of why we were here. That and her engagement. Fortunately, I found that I was...
War Requiem - Introit
Everyone has a story to tell, a legacy left behind in the sands of time in the desert of eternity, a treasure to be found. The stories, like all treasure, differ in relative value and appearance - some are happy and highly valued by their owners;...
Requiem - Part 1
Camp Hesperus was a military installation nestled deep within Swiss Alps - a beautiful, rugged, nasty section of land that officially encompassed twenty square kilometers in area, but really had a greater area of influence due to the fact that the...
The Art of Caring for Horns
Tobias and his father walked down that old, familiar, well-worn path through the woods that they walked every so often. His father insisted that they do this even if the time was spent lecturing Tobias on his shortcomings, or, as his father put it,...