The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)

by Matt Dinniman

I looked up the Bitch, What? spell. Bitch, What? Type: Berserking Spell + partial invulnerability. Target: Self only Cost: Item based. Duration: twenty seconds. Cooldown: Once every 30 hours. Effect: You ever seen an angry, on-fire weasel tossed into a room full of chickens? You catch on fire. You are invulnerable to blunt damage. Then you get really angry and kill every goddamn thing in the room. This is a berserking spell. Don’t cast this inside of a Denny’s. Or anywhere near people you like.

Nothing ever good comes from talking politics, especially when neither of us know what the hell we’re talking about it.”

Men, if you must die with your boots on, die for your families, your homes, your country, but do not longer consent to die, like rats in a trap, for those who have no more interest in you than in the pick you dig with.

Anyway, during this same time, it is alleged a separate, more militant group of individuals had formed in secret. The Molly Maguires. Named after a widow in Ireland who fought against predatory landlords, the coal workers of Pennsylvania became something a little more proactive, supposedly assassinating over two dozen coal mine supervisors and managers. ...Until Pinkerton agents, hired by the same mine owners, infiltrated the group and discovered their identities. Several of the alleged Mollies ended up publicly hanged. Others disappeared. You get the picture.

Never stare into the blinding eye of the Bedlam Bride. What it means is don’t become obsessed with something, lest you’re blinded to everything else.

Kids aren’t always a product of their parents. But sometimes that doesn’t matter. Sometimes parents can cast a shadow so thick, you can drown in it.