Crossroads And Other Tales of Valdemar
Crossroads And Other Tales of Valdemar
“His short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. A resident of the Tampa Bay area, the setting for much of his contemporary fiction, he spends much of his leisure time fencing foil, epee, and saber.
THE living eyed me with emotions ranging from hope to dislike. Mouth agape, eyes wide, smallsword still sheathed at his hip, chest hacked to bloody ruin, the corpse stared up at the high ceiling with its painted scene of nymphs and deer. I stooped to see if his eyes still held t...he image of the man who’d cut him down. They didn’t. That trick has never worked for me, nor, so far as I know, for anyone.
Stout and balding, a man in his middle years like myself, Lord Baltes asked, “Are you learning anything, Master Selden?”
I straightened up. “It’s too early to say.”
Lanky and sharp-featured like so many members of the Keenspurs, Tregan snorted. “Surely it’s clear enough what happened. Venwell had the bad luck to blunder into the thief, who then had to kill him to make his escape.”MoreLess
THE living eyed me with emotions ranging from hope to dislike. Mouth agape, eyes wide, smallsword still sheathed at his hip, chest hacked to bloody ruin, the corpse stared up at the high ceiling with its painted scene of nymphs and deer. I stooped to see if his eyes still held t...he image of the man who’d cut him down. They didn’t. That trick has never worked for me, nor, so far as I know, for anyone.
Stout and balding, a man in his middle years like myself, Lord Baltes asked, “Are you learning anything, Master Selden?”
I straightened up. “It’s too early to say.”
Lanky and sharp-featured like so many members of the Keenspurs, Tregan snorted. “Surely it’s clear enough what happened. Venwell had the bad luck to blunder into the thief, who then had to kill him to make his escape.”MoreLess
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