Jun 10th, 2010
by John Ottinger III.
Kalak rounded a rocky stone ridge and stumbled to a stop before the body of a dying thunderclast. The enormous stone beast lay on its side, riblike protrusions from its chest broken and cracked. The monstrosity was vaguely skeletal in shape, with unnaturally long limbs that sprouted from granite shoulders. The eyes were deep red [...]
Jan 22nd, 2010
by John Ottinger III.
Over a five day period, thanks to Mercury Retrograde Press, I will be excerpting portions of Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker.
Part One is here.
Part Two is here.
Part Three is here.
Part Four is here.
They walked through hallways and around corners, turning this way and that, seeming to go in circles, until Idisio once again [...]
Jan 21st, 2010
by John Ottinger III.
Over a five day period, thanks to Mercury Retrograde Press, I will be excerpting portions of Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker.
Part One is here.
Part Two is here.
Part Three is here.
Part Five is here.
“Nobody knows you as a street-rat,” had been the eunuch’s first piece of advice. “Don’t act like one; nobody will peg [...]
Jan 20th, 2010
by John Ottinger III.
Over a five day period, thanks to Mercury Retrograde Press, I will be excerpting portions of Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker.
Part One is here.
Part Two is here.
Part Four is here.
Part Five is here.
The steward was a thin, sharp-faced man of no readily-apparent bloodline and a sour demeanor. He stared at Idisio as if [...]
Jan 19th, 2010
by John Ottinger III.
Over a five day period, thanks to Mercury Retrograde Press, I will be excerpting portions of Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker.
Part One is here.
Part Three is here.
Part Four is here.
Part Five is here.
Finally they stopped in front of a small grey door. Two guards with gold and silver braids looped on their sleeves [...]
Jan 18th, 2010
by John Ottinger III.
Over a five day period, thanks to Mercury Retrograde Press, I will be excerpting portions of Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker.
Part Two is here.
Part Three is here.
Part Four is here.
Part Five is here.
Chapter One
Hee-ay, hee-ay: the cry of the water-seller in the broad and the narrow places; shass-shass-shass, the warning [...]