‘In the Time of Their Fathers’
Reverent Chandler: Overture
© 2015 James LaFond
OCT/23/15
The last warband of the Nord Clans has descended the Mud River for the Final Cull. But they alone gather at the Place Reverent. The Sark Clans have failed to glide downriver from the rocky west. The Cumber Clans have not come stalking out of the forested east.
Only the enemy, foul, arrogant and teeming, have arrived at the Place Reverent, leaving not a man, woman or child alive. Only Reverent Chandler survives, maimed and staked by the Papas, the last seer of the Nords south of Broodhome, to where he must be conveyed in haste to speak with Reverent Arbor, last of his pondering line.
As winter falls, and the remorseless ice-choked current bedevils them, the last warriors of their kind must ascend the accursed river of their foes, one final time, where once, in the time of their fathers, the first warriors of their kind had descended in triumph.
america the brutal
sorcerer!
all-power-fighting
advent america
the greatest boxer
beasts of aryas
on combat
menthol rampage
sons of aryas
songs of aryas
broken dance
winter of a fighting life
wife—
the lesser angels of our nature
time & cosmos
on the overton railroad
solo boxing
by the wine dark sea
the fighting edge
the sunset saga complete
thriving in bad places
honor among men
triumph
the combat space
logic of steel
the year the world took the z-pill
orphan nation
logic of force
the first boxers
under the god of things
uncle satan
ranger?
fate
hate
z-pill forever
when you're food
within leviathan’s craw
let the world fend for itself
the gods of boxing
fanatic
son of a lesser god
fiction anthology one
the greatest lie ever sold
predation
taboo you
cracker-boy
song of the secret gardener
masculine axis
blue eyed daughter of zeus
night city
into leviathan’s maw
dark, distant futures
book of nightmares
your trojan whorse
barbarism versus civilization