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Serpent Daughter – Snippet 06

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 06 Mesh nodded. The dagger’s blade was pocked with lines of dots, forged into the metal. “So long ago that many years fails as a description. We were lords of the Ohio so long ago that the stars were different. The children of the Serpent had not yet come to the […]

The Portals Of Hell – Snippet 06

The Portals Of Hell – Snippet 06 His comment finally wiped the sadness from her face. Her brow wrinkled in disapproval, her mouth twisted like Aliceia’s when she scolded him. “You should not think such of yourself. Peto considered you a great friend. He always said how you cared about your friends, how you were […]

Marked Territory – Snippet 05

Marked Territory – Snippet 05 I glanced over and saw a bright orange tabby lounging on a stack of boxes just beneath a hot air vent. Her coat was thick, but it had that rough look that told me she took care of it mostly on her own. Her eyes were a sparkling green, and […]

The Portals Of Hell – Snippet 05

The Portals Of Hell – Snippet 05 Chapter 3: A Revelation The GranMalo towered over them all, more than eight meters tall, and so close that Davin could smell the rotten remains of its past butchery, hear the wind of its nostrils, feel the darkness of this creature in his soul. For a moment, everyone […]

1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 07

1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 07 Sehested, hurrying to join Stirke, discovered what had stopped the small Bermudan in his tracks: his surprise encounter with a spectacle from another world:  A telegrapher hammering away at a device that was all levers and wires. Instructions being shouted down speaking tubes. An auxiliary binnacle […]

1636 The Atlantic Encounter – Snippet 38

This book is available now, so this is the last Snippet. 1636 The Atlantic Encounter – Snippet 38 “They can go straight to Hell, Mynheer Chehab, which is where they claim we are all going. I shall not make ‘common cause’ with any of those mock-pious preeners. And as for the natives: they may be […]

Heart Of The World – Snippet 05

Heart Of The World – Snippet 05 Made of fitted stones, the bank sloped easily at first but then turned steep, and he slipped and slid most of the way, grabbing for handholds on the rough wall. Halfway down the dry stone vanished under slick wet green weed, crusted with sand and shells. Yesterday that […]

Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 41

This book is available now so this is the last Snippet. Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 41 She gave a command and the left quarter images dissolved, to be replaced by a close up from a recon skimmer of the latifundia of the former ambassatrix to Santa Josefina.  A large circle of […]

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 05

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 05 The giant frowned. “That was an error of judgment. When he sneaked into my camp, I believed I had been outwitted. I jumped to the conclusion that he, and you, were my enemies. I know now that I was mistaken.” “That was no error,” Dockery muttered. “Bastard deserved it.” Kinta […]

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 04

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 04 “And to count. Though with hands as large and ungainly as mine, it is difficult to take only the hair.” Mesh reached into the large sack hanging from his belt and produced a man’s head. He raised it by its long black topknot, allowing blood to drip from the cleanly […]