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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

DUEL OF SHADOWS


EGYPT

{Courtesy Tim Bradstreet}

   Before there was Man, the Black Land existed.

      And the Black of that Land was not soil ...

          It was the ABSENCE of Light, of Mercy, of Life itself.

Call it Anti-Life for want of a better term that your primitive minds might understand.

I call myself ...  DayStar,

that last burning ingot in the dying night that rails at the coming of the Light.

Do you dimly sense the vast epoch lurking behind the East of the early ages?

Do your souls shiver at the murmur of that once lurking Night behind the dawn of Egypt and Babylon?

And when you dream fitfully on nights of new moons, do you glimpse flashes of gigantic black cities from whose ruins the first Babylon rose,

a last mirrored remnant of an age lost in the deep gulf of prehistory's endless night?

Now
it is the year 1895 in Egypt.

The nations play at what they pathetically call the
Great Game,
vying to see who will dominate the world.

But Others in the Shadows, born of my Darkness place a pawn here, sacrifice a knight there.

Though but hundreds of years old, they have grown smug in their supposed power.

Not knowing that they, themselves, are being played.

The Seed I sowed 3000 years ago has just been harvested.

Man is about to taste her bitter fruit.

The board is set.  My pieces are in place.

Now, after so long, my Adversary moves his knight:

{Courtesy Tim Bradstreet}

Samuel McCord --
 
One Lone Knight Against the Shadows in 
THE STARS BLEED AT MIDNIGHT
{Coming Soon}
 
Its Prelude:
DEATH IN THE HOUSE OF LIFE
http://www.amazon.com/DEATH-HOUSE-LIFE-Roland-Yeomans-ebook/dp/B00HIU5O38/

Sean McLachlan's short story The Scavenger will be free August 14-18.
Give him a neat birthday present and download it, will you?
 

5 comments:

  1. How exciting and ominous! I love stories set in Egypt so I'll check the prelude and The Stars Bleed at Midnight.

    And I like that picture of Samuel McCord.

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  2. A great way to whet our appetite for more. . .the stage has been set.

    And although McCord is only one knight, he's a powerful knight, judging from his past exploits.



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  3. Very enticing. Sam will take them down though.

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  4. Helena:
    I think you'll like HOUSE OF LIFE as it has Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and Nikola Tesla with Sam in Egypt.

    And Tim Bradstreet is an awesome artist, isn't he?

    Elephant's Child:
    I hope it is. :-)

    D.G.:
    Sam is a reflective knight -- which I think lends him the strength he needs. :-)

    Alex:
    There are no victories without sacrifices. But some victories are worth it. :-) Sam thanks you for your confidence in him.

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