Read Chapter 23: Expanse in the Nothing
Chapter 23: “What news do you carry, Quinn O’Connell?” Text flowed across the page of The Archivist's book in a smooth script. I didn’t...
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Mortis Maledictum
- Aug 21
- 13 min
Read Chapter 22: The Malus Bastion
Chapter 22: The Jeep kicked up a dusty cloud behind me as I drove. I had a pair of jade daggers sitting in the center console, and they...
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Mortis Maledictum
- Mar 29
- 14 min
Read Chapter 21: The Webs Revealed
Chapter 21: “Anansi,” I said. Quinn didn’t understand the importance of the name, but I did. Anansi was an interesting deity from the...
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Mortis Maledictum
- Mar 23
- 15 min
Read Chapter 20: Jade Veins
Chapter 20: The vast majority of the world’s jade production is mined in Myanmar. With Quinn’s Mortis entropy detector vaporized, he...
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Mortis Maledictum
- Mar 14
- 12 min
Read Chapter 19: Cracks in the Sea
Chapter 19: The deep ocean hosts an uncountable variety of life. That was the pitch Hugo Bellisar used many years ago when he stood...
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Devin McCamey
- Feb 3
- 18 min
Read Chapter 18: Rumbling Deeps
Chapter 18: Ephemera Cave had a nice ring to it. Out of all the options listed on the map, that was the only one that practically leaped...
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Devin McCamey
- Jan 25
- 15 min
Read Chapter 17: God's Country
Chapter 17: Written by: Martin Shannon Shock jock vocals played out over the bomber’s cheap radio. That mixture of hate and humor churned...
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Devin McCamey
- Jan 13
- 22 min
Read Chapter 16: Labyrinthine Shades
Chapter 16: The Smithsonian was more than a museum or even a collection of museums. It was a research facility, library, zoo, worked in...
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Devin McCamey
- Dec 28, 2021
- 15 min
Read Chapter 15: Unquiet Dead
Chapter 15: Kinlochleven wasn’t always a tourist destination, but over time it had grown to be one of the highest rated parts of the...
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Mortis Maledictum
- Dec 18, 2021
- 12 min
Read Chapter 14: Stolen Souls
Chapter 14: Kirby Bridge Park in Kansas City had wonderful walking paths. The city built them wide enough for both walkers and bikers to...
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Mortis Maledictum
- Dec 13, 2021
- 18 min
Read Chapter 13: The Hunting Call
Chapter 13: In the small snow flurries, Nick drove around the last switchback up into the mountain village of Fort Elder. It wasn’t...
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Mortis Maledictum
- Dec 13, 2021
- 5 min
Read Chapter 12: It's Time We Spoke
Chapter 12: Ancient beings made the room from unhewn rock and small glints of distant firelight cast flickering shadows on the ceiling...
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Mortis Maledictum
- Dec 10, 2021
- 3 min
Read Interlude: The Dark God's Wake
"Didn't expect to see you here." I turned in a slow circle, taking everything in. The room was decorated in lavish fashion from ancient...
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Mortis Maledictum
- Dec 10, 2021
- 14 min
Read Chapter 11: Jade Pages
Chapter 11: The whiskey bit hard and sharp. The mixture swirled in his gut as his head pounded a thrumming beat against the insides of...
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Mortis Maledictum
- Dec 10, 2021
- 10 min
Read Chapter 10: Crows Wings and Dark Deeds
Chapter 10: For much of its history to that point, Japan had kept to itself and kept the rest of the world out. That all came to an end...
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Mortis Maledictum
- Dec 10, 2021
- 12 min
Read Chapter 9: The Bone Duchess
Chapter 9: Once upon a time in a land near Calais there lived a duchess named Anna. She lived in a tall stone castle on a bald hill just...
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Mortis Maledictum
- Dec 10, 2021
- 10 min
Read Chapter 8: Harrowed Obsession
Chapter 8: Every great while the utterances of the world seem to skip a breath, and time loses the names of those born with a peculiar...
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Mortis Maledictum
- Dec 9, 2021
- 20 min
Read Chapter 7: The Rotted Crown
Chapter 7: The tower stood tall once. It held the nobility of the country, and within it there were still many secrets and power. There...
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Mortis Maledictum
- Dec 9, 2021
- 16 min
Read Chapter 6: Poison Pills
Chapter 6: It was quiet here. And quiet was exactly how Mike liked it. He thought about fumbling with the radio knob, but then thought...
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Mortis Maledictum
- Dec 9, 2021
- 6 min
Read Chapter 5: Insults & Power
Chapter 5: Titus and Cassius climbed down the stone steps, away from the center of Kom Al-Dikka. While most of the people came to the...
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