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Hot off the Digital Presses, the Latest
Addition to the Spell Weaver family:
“Destiny or Madness?” a short work
from a different point of view.
Are you a fantasy fan but only have time for a small
dose sometimes? Do you want another sample of the
Spell Weaver series before buying the longer works?
Then “Destiny or Madness?” is for you! Check out the
never before seen excerpt below:
The first time the god Ares appeared to me I was sitting
in the school library, just minding my own business.
I think he had tried on at least a few other occasions.
Once or twice I could have sworn the text I was reading turned
blood red, though at the time I thought I was suffering from eye
strain. More than once I woke up in the middle of the night
hearing whispering, even though I knew I was alone in my room.
I had figured the whisper was just the echo of the dream from
which I had awakened, though I couldn’t remember any dream.
Yes, those other times I could have been mistaken, but not this one, when the words of the Iliad swirled on
the page in front of me, transforming into a reddish mist, then into an image of Ares, god of war, eyes flashing with
the fire of burning citadels, features handsome but heartless, muscles tensed, sword dripping blood, terrible to
behold, staring at me just as vividly as if I were seeing him on my cell phone.
Naturally, I jumped, and the sound of my chair scraping on the floor earned me the stare of death from
Mrs. Curtis, the librarian. I nodded apologetically, she accepted my unspoken regrets with a nod of her own, and
then she went back to her paperwork. I was a pretty regular guest in the library during the afternoon, and I think
she decided to cut me some slack because she knew I was a “good boy.”
Hesitantly, I sat back down and looked at the fierce, unrelenting stare from the book in front of me. I was
frightened and thrilled at the same time. It was possible my parents were right, and I needed therapy after a