Serpent Daughter – Snippet 36

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...

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 35

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...

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 33

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...

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 32

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...

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 31

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

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...