Theocrat Chapter 4 Part 3
I was not alone in the alcove long.
It wasn’t Elisabeth who returned. Sivar came back in with someone in tow and she gestured towards me. “As I said, a form of justice has been served. I hope this...Read More »
Theocrat Chapter 4 Part 2
I walked into the crowd, taking a direct course to Sivar.
Octo’s voice was a sardonic, coaching presence in the back of my head. “Stop rushing. You won. Bask in it. Make a circuit of the room, especially to...Read More »
Theocrat: Chapter 4 Part 1
A gentle pinging woke me up. I was surrounded by linen and warm, hard skin.
Sebastian was a great mass in the bed next to me. Black being “slimming” was an understatement; he was every bit as muscular as...Read More »
Theocrat Chapter 3 Part 3
The angel’s black eyes fixed on me. “Interesting,” was all it said before turning to Dion. “Playing with your toys again, Dionysian Apollonian?”
Dion was uncharacteristically quiet. He let the salvo pass.
Mentally I dubbed the octopus headed angel “Octo.”
Octo...Read More »
Theocrat: Chapter 3 Part 2
I sat up, scrabbling at whatever was covering my head. The more I touched it the more ominous it felt; plastic studded with thick wires that ran off … someplace. My limbs were barely responsive and throbbing with...Read More »
Theocrat: Chapter 3 Part 1
God, it was fucking hot. At least the Central North American Principality’s beanstalk city was blanketed with a “nice” baking, dry heat. The buildings effectively screened it out, plus air conditioning could work wonders. At night, the heat...Read More »
Theocrat Chapter 2 Part 2
Teleporting back to my room, I crouched to the floor doubled over with numbness and crowning anxiety.
Did I perform my role properly? Did I go too far?
It was a public denunciation… very public… too damned public.
Were we supposed...Read More »
Theocrat: Chapter 2 part 1
“I did not expect this,” Sifu commented.
We were in the wasteland, many, many miles from base of the Central North American Principality’s beanstalk, and it was a very bad day.
Treatment for the second month of withdrawal from “the...Read More »
Theocrat Chapter 1 Part 5
The silence in the elevator car suite built well past awkward and finally Sivar broke the tension.
“What should I do with you?” Sivar asked. “Your Name may have changed, but otherwise you are still you…. No one else...Read More »
Theocrat Chapter 1 Part 4
I woke up on the ground several miles out from the base of the beanstalk inside of a small, but oddly deep crater.
“Ow ow ow ow ow,” I yammered sitting up. I hurt everywhere. I reached into my...Read More »
Theocrat Chapter 1 Part 3
“I am impressed boy.” Primate Dion’s voice emanated from the walls of the lift car. “In the midst of your personal upheaval you did not resort to mealy-mouthed self-pity. I honestly expected you to go for the screeching...Read More »
Theocrat: Chapter 1 Part 2
“Remind me who Sivar is again?” I asked.
“The Prelate whom you met shortly after arrival,” Dion replied. “Now come along; you do not want to meet her with a bloody lightning bolt drawn on your forehead and blood on...Read More »
Theocrat: Chapter 1 Part 1
Seven years later…
The vast trunk of the Central North American Beanstalk never failed to impress me. It never truly disappeared over the horizon. Dark during the day and dotted with lights at night, it slowly swelled as we...Read More »
Theocrat: Prologue
by Hank Cannon
I woke up swathed in suffocating darkness. Panicking, I screamed, struggled and cursed and I was out in diffuse light, standing next to a table where green tinted, white beaked shadows backed away from a shape...Read More »
