1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 39

by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 19, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets

1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 39 “So our choice was between standing around while the knowledge from Grantville’s library drives a radically new history, or to have a hand in shaping it. And these islands are among the places where those...

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 37

by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 19, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 37 “I’ll tell you who can,” Roland said. “The man — or woman — who takes that rod and this one and uses them at the crosses of the earth to try to still tremors.” Ordres laughed. “When...

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 36

by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 16, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 36 “Whole thing’s jest gone to stupid.” Chapter Eight Two men joined Sarah in the sanctum. One had long dark hair and mustache and wore a stylish German hat; the other was darker skinned, maybe an Indian, and wore a...

1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 38

by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 16, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets

1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 38 Chapter 20 Oranjestad, St. Eustatia Eddie turned, discovered the source of the tongue-in-cheek comments: Joost Banckert. The vice admiral had finally made his way up the dock to them, but the man who’d been...

1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 37

by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 14, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets

1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 37 Eddie almost snapped his fingers: the Secret Service! That’s what O’Rourke’s attentive hover looked like. Eddie paused, reflected. Of course, maybe it looks like that because that’s exactly what...

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 35

by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 14, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 35 “What else did the song say?” Cathy asked. “Just about nothing. Alzbieta only knew one verse, and my father sang it in his delirium, so it might have been nonsense, anyway. Now that I think of it, it had another...

1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 36

by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 12, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets

1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 36 Chapter 19 Oranjestad, St. Eustatia  Cornelis Jol began stumping along rapidly on his peg leg when he caught sight of the three of them in the far shadows of the Fort Oranjestad’s seaward wall. He waved to...

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 34

by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 12, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 34 “Your Majesty?” Korinn called. “What happened?” she asked. “And remember, I can tell when you’re lying.” “Only if you can see me, Your Majesty.” “Oh, if there’s...

1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 35

by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 9, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets

1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 35 “Ah, Maarten Tromp, you are delighting in his torment of me,” van Walbeeck lamented histrionically. “Soldiers, particularly jongeren like this Cantrell fellow, have little appreciation of the trials...

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 33

by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 9, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 33 He paid three Texians to help him build it and to help him fire it. They were fascinated, averring at first that it couldn’t possibly work, and then hooting and slapping their broad-brimmed hats against their knees when it...

1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 34

by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 7, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets

1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 34 That still-fresh structure was currently swarmed by those same lighters, but they were now off-loading the last general cargos of the prizes Tromp’s fleet had taken off Dominica. Although still referred to by some...

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 32

by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 7, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 32 “Was Hannah reckless, or was she bold?” Chapter Seven Calvin Calhoun was packed to leave in three minutes. It was easy enough — rifle, powder, shot and accouterments; a second set of clothing, rolled up in a...

1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 33

by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 5, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets

1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 33 PART II June-July, 1636 From his saw-pit of mouth, from his charnel of maw Herman Melville, “The Maldive Shark” Chapter 18 Oranjestad, St. Eustatia Eddie Cantrell closed the door softly behind him, padded to...

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 31

by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 5, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 31 They sent tokens. If it came to another battle, the queen would be assailed on two sides, and defended by an army of tokens. The thought that one of Cahokia’s enemies was Simon Sword, the legendary bugbear of the Mississippi,...

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 30

by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 2, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 30 # Temple Franklin rode west atop the foremost of the thirteen wagons that left the Walnut Street Prison. Thirteen wagons, one for each of his grandfather’s virtues, though Temple could remember what the virtues were only with...