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Letters is an ongoing series of free-verse poetry snippets. From the POV of Ian Baraati, of Chaos Rising fame, they give a unique perspective on his conflict with John Corsica, Omega's 'mad scientist' on the ethics of his work and its ramifications.

Snippets follow in no particular order.

...is an older piece I've returned to since the crash, and jumps between the Bull Courts of ancient Mycenae and the Greece of modern day.

When a pair of acolytes in service to the Bull Court stumble into a plot to kill a Mycenaean noble, they inadvertently change the course of history. But legends grow with the retelling, and not everyone is so willing to forgive and forget the failed assassination. Especially not the would-be killer.

Three millennia and some later, that dark past resurfaces a… Continue

...is a new piece just getting on its feet. It was started on a new disk, and thankfully safe from the disaster that wiped out everything else.

Children traces the work of the Yewes-Ser, an 'historical society' seeking evidence of the immortal beings of legend living in the modern day and its inevitable collission with an isolated Bedouin tribe sworn to keep the secrets of their people precisely that: secret. Conflict arises when the Yewes-Ser discover that two of their own aren't what they see… Continue

*Something* killed my backup ZIP drive, and in the process wiped everything I'd had saved to said disk at the time of the crash. And I mean completely wiped, as in the computer doesn't even read it as an empty formatted or unformatted disk. It's as though the disk itself doesn't exist when you insert it in the new drive. Being the backup copy, it shouldn't have been such a big deal...except that just prior to that my hard drive crashed and lost the original. Ergo, *everything* I've worked on sin… Continue

Gods is yet another experimental piece: a work of high fantasy blended with ancient mythology and modern politics. Adam Peyton, history scholar and story-teller extraordinaire relays a tale of magic, love and betrayal only for his captive audience to realize that the 'fairy stories' are in fact reality and that the world is in danger from forces beyond their control.

Excerpts following are in no particular order.