by
Stultus
on Sep 26, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The sight of the destruction of Elmcrygh brought great misery and many tears to the poor survivors of Silana, who had hoped to find shelter and perhaps a new home behind the walls of the great walled town. In size, the now burning ruins were once nearly large enough to be considered a city, and it formerly sheltering tens of thousands of people and was the m...
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Stultus
on Sep 26, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
For the next two marching days the regiment made good progress, nearly thirteen leagues. The wounded of the 4th Reserve Company still slightly kept the pace slower than Rowan would have preferred but he would not ever offer a single word of complaint to the many still injured. They had fought and held their ground while their friends around them had died, al...
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kitty_siam
on Sep 15, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The human and not so human body has many wonderful automatic and autonomic responses built in for pain, pleasure, and survival. These responses can be as simple as closing our eyes to a bright flash of light, to the brain sending us into an unconscious state when the agony becomes too much to withstand.
It had been three days since my brain flipped the off...
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by
Skidder
on Sep 17, 2017
Loving Wives
"Can you believe the audacity?" One dark haired man in a toga with the broad purple stripe of a Senator said to the man beside him, a lean man with black hair liberally sprinkled with silver, also wearing the purple striped Senatorial toga. He looked around at the celebration going on around him with a disdain he was unable to conceal.
His companion just sn...
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by
Stultus
on Sep 26, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Despite their lack of proper rest, they started off again right at the very first crack of light and made a decent amount of relatively swift progress on the dryer grassy ground before the skies fully unloaded upon them. The rain soon got so hard that they could barely see ten yards in the woods ahead of them, so they risked a more dangerous but open path ac...
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by
Stultus
on Sep 26, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
With barely a full company's worth of troops currently able to stand or bear arms, Rowan ordered the brave soldiers to take their rest and enjoy the fruits of victory. The Count declared a day of celebration in the town, and a great many wine and ale casks were breached. Some of the now veteran warriors found dalliance with the grateful townsfolk, or their f...
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by
Stultus
on Sep 26, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Rowan and his party were indeed having nearly all of the trouble that they could handle. And their epic journey down-river was one that the gléaman could and did tell countless times in the years afterwards.
They were making very fast time going back down the river, paddling hard with their oars along with the current to make even greater speed than The Lad...
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by
Stultus
on Sep 26, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The first significant threat of danger came a few days later, on their fifth day of the voyage, as the crew was putting out the dinner campfire, and nearly everyone was preparing their bedrolls along the shore. Knowing that he was unlikely to get any sleep, yet once again, Rowan volunteered to take the first camp watch, to stay up until the moon was in the c...
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by
Stultus
on Sep 26, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
**************
AFTERWARDS, TEN YEARS LATER
Rowan and Boyle smiled as they sunned themselves after a brief swim and watched their wives and their children splash and play in the cool but refreshing waters of Lily Lake in Swanford. It was still early summer, and the shallow river waters had not yet warmed up very much, but they had been eager to leave Telli...
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by
Stultus
on Sep 26, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
*********** CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
Not quite a full hourglass from time Rowan and his companions set foot from off the ship onto Broadmore, on the docks of the walled City of Penryn, right at the mouth of the Penryn River in the Southern Gulf, they found themselves outside the great walled gates of the city facing three great armies, of which only one was their...
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