Miss the beginning? Click here to go to Chapter 1! 31 The distant sounds of a Mozart symphony told me I wasn’t dead. Not that I think there’s no music in the afterlife. I just think the performances would be … Continue reading →
Miss the beginning? Click here to go to Chapter 1! 30 I had a fleeting moment to wonder what Katy would think, if she could have seen me right then. Standing in a huge stone cavern, concealed inside a little … Continue reading →
Miss the beginning? Click here to go to Chapter 1! 29 I stepped inside the cavern from the tunnel, and immediately ducked behind a twelve-foot stalagmite to my left. Nothing pounced. No great crowd of nychtera had been waiting for … Continue reading →
Miss the beginning? Click here to go to Chapter 1! 28 Before setting foot into the darkness of the tunnel, I pressed my palms to my eyes and whispered the incantation, “Fos.” I could now see the tunnel ahead of … Continue reading →
Miss the beginning? Click here to go to Chapter 1! 27 Brikatika in the lead, the four of us swam at breakneck speeds down the Willamette River. We stuck to the bottom, of course, where we had to maneuver around … Continue reading →
Miss the beginning? Click here to go to Chapter 1! 26 Now, Locksmiths can’t just open up a portal to anywhere they want to go. No matter how much it may seem like it sometimes. Fact is, there are two … Continue reading →
Miss the beginning? Click here to go to Chapter 1! 25 The back room at The Porthole had only one table. A card table. Not the fancy kind either, like you’d see in a poker room. No, this was a … Continue reading →
Miss the beginning? Click here to go to Chapter 1! 24 I was only too glad to be getting out of that wooden room and the wet-animal smell of unconscious gossaks. Especially if this constructed space might collapse any minute. … Continue reading →
Miss the beginning? Click here to go to Chapter 1! 23 I could think of places I wouldn’t mind finding out I was trapped. Chief among them, of course, being the bedroom of gorgeous rock star Eva Schmidt. Assuming, of … Continue reading →
Miss the beginning? Click here to go to Chapter 1! 22 Tactically speaking, this situation was a mess. First of all, not a lot of room to fight. The wooden room was maybe thirty feet to a side. Might have … Continue reading →