Part 35 - Giuseppe's Choice
Edna and Iona sat still on their shared horse for another moment, following Highmond with a wide-eyed, wide-mouthed stare. “I didn’t know...
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Beau Gilbert
- Nov 11, 2021
- 4 min
Part 34 - The Stick Up, then Down
But in the end, no horse cavities were found that day. So they picked their steeds and loaded their bags onto each. “Well,” said Edna...
Beau Gilbert
- Nov 4, 2021
- 4 min
Part 33 - The Other Man's Pants
“Sticks, twigs, logs - really anythin’ fuels a flame or holds a nail,” he said, and should have stopped there. “I just burned a bunch of...
Beau Gilbert
- Oct 28, 2021
- 6 min
Part 32 - Welcome to Shelville
Footprints of several sizes snaked in and out of the center. There awaited a man at a small structure that looked like a market stall...
Beau Gilbert
- Oct 21, 2021
- 4 min
Part 31- All Part of the Plan
And soon they did. Only a few minutes later - the smoke still far off in the distance - they trotted up behind a lump of tuxedo jacket...
Beau Gilbert
- Oct 14, 2021
- 4 min
Part 30 - Accomplished Ornithological Sketchist
Edna Star awoke, for the first time since this adventure began, without an incredible amount of pain. There was brightness - too much of...
Beau Gilbert
- Oct 7, 2021
- 17 min
Chapter 7 - The Road of Trials Begins
Our group of, let’s call them adventurers, ran far and fast and fleet and foiblesome - no, not that last one, sorry. They angled...
Beau Gilbert
- Sep 30, 2021
- 5 min
Part 29 - The Fall
And she told them a tale from her Earth, of a mountain hidden just above the top of the world, where the storm and the stairs never end....
Beau Gilbert
- Sep 23, 2021
- 4 min
Part 28 - The Wonkiness of Time
They marched on toward where they hoped Pythagoras awaited them. Edna fiddled with her watch as she thought about her new friend,...
Beau Gilbert
- Sep 16, 2021
- 3 min
Part 27 - New Pants
Edna was woken by the choking smell of smoke filling the air. It was neither the savory woodsmoke of the campfire nor the sulfurous smoke...
Beau Gilbert
- Sep 9, 2021
- 6 min
Part 26 - Highmond's Thing
Our group of, let’s call them adventurers, ran far and fast and fleet and foiblesome - no, not that last one, sorry. They angled...
Beau Gilbert
- Sep 2, 2021
- 13 min
Chapter 6 - The Road of Trials
The Oxboxtra Dictionary of Inglish and Other Words Inglish has Been so Good as to Take (similar volumes exist under slightly differing...
Beau Gilbert
- Aug 26, 2021
- 6 min
Part 25 - Noitpure
It was a stupid idea though, one that would never work, so she only smiled at him and clutched her watch in her pocket. Then she turned...
Beau Gilbert
- Aug 19, 2021
- 4 min
Part 24 - Between A Rock, Another Rock, and Some Lava
So they had set off at first light, which gave Edna a turn to object. “Why do adventurers always begin at ‘first light’ or ‘rooster’s...
Beau Gilbert
- Aug 12, 2021
- 4 min
Part 23 - Right, the Lava
So they had set off at first light, which gave Edna a turn to object. “Why do adventurers always begin at ‘first light’ or ‘rooster’s...
Beau Gilbert
- Aug 5, 2021
- 4 min
Part 22 - Running
The Oxboxtra Dictionary of Inglish and Other Words Inglish has Been so Good as to Take (similar volumes exist under slightly differing...
Beau Gilbert
- Jul 29, 2021
- 18 min
Chapter 5 - Which Witch
The sky was properly dark by the time they arrived in the village, streaked by the pin-prick lights of a billion other suns of a trillion...
Beau Gilbert
- Jul 22, 2021
- 5 min
Part 21 - By Another Name
“It’s a pleasure to meet your majesty,” Edna said, still smiling. “The pleasure is all mine,” Iona responded, then changed her mind, “No....
Beau Gilbert
- Jul 15, 2021
- 5 min
Part 20 - A Bunch of Babies
“Whatever you have, and please don’t put anything in it.” Edna completed her tea order. One of the guards who had led them to their room...
Beau Gilbert
- Jul 13, 2021
- 4 min
Part 19 - A Guard Called Larry
The guard clammed up after that, and the rest of the walk through town passed by uneventfully. Most people, Edna guessed, were asleep in...
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