Chapter 1 – The Cave Bear Hunt In the dawn glow from the sky hanging just above the tree tops, a small group of young men and women met just inside the gates of Cave Bear tribe to say their goodbyes. Kael’s father thumped his leather-covered chest proudly in salute and symbolically gave him the […]
Month: January 2026
The Last Confession of the Clockwork Pope
Chapter 1: The Brass Papacy The rain came down in sheets over Rome, turning the cobblestones of the Via della Lungara into rivers of black water that carried the city’s filth toward the Tiber. Father Lorenzo Vanni—though he had not been a father of anything for seven years now—stood at the window of his cramped […]