Chapter 1: Minor Annoyances World War II wages in the unseen distance. In a battlefield far to the west, men fight and die. Men collapse in the mud as nations clash: But here, in the dark and godless corner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Jacob lies in dirty rags on a metal cot. 4:18am, rising […]
by Sean Dempsey, 6/28/23 The damned clock struck 6pm. Again. As it always seemed to do each day with far too few words unwritten—and far too few coherent thoughts on the page. Evelyn was exhausted. Her serene study was tucked away within the corners of her 19th century Victorian home. She had written her last […]
Sean Dempsey, 04/01/2025 There was once a king so rich that other kings wept when they heard his name. His majesty, Kaiser My’Kael Sellur, High King of the Lost Isles of Bit’Quon, ruled over a land where wealth dripped from every rooftop and pooled in the gutters. His vaults ran so deep and wide that […]
