In the dim light of a storeroom, Vekaya wakes up, alone and with no memory of who she is, where she is, or how she got there. In an orphanage run by an arcane religious cabal, our first protagonist has no choice but to become an investigator, a rebel, and her very own hero. At nearly the same time and not far away, a mysterious and deadly force from an uncharted region causes the town of South Hall to destroy itself, leaving Gyrath and his little brother Caedrus equal parts baffled and horrified. Taken from a stable and easy life, they are now adrift in a world of wolf packs, shapeshifters, will-bending shamassons, and the death crawler: a worm made entirely of corpses, the size of a tower that breathes violent madness into those unlucky enough to be near it. The trio must learn to put aside their differences in the hopes that the three of them will survive their adventure and save Hammercleft - and possibly the world - from those who would dominate it. A Flash of Sparks is created by Emile Bienert, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

A Flash of Sparks

Sobbing and scared, a small crowd of us, almost entirely women and children, began down the worn road to Hammercleft. The men had run to the center or the east of the city in search of whatever was attacking our village, only, I thought, to become what they were hunting. Before all of these nightmares were over, I would hear stories of fathers splitting the skulls of sons with hammers or children biting bloody pieces out of parents. In fact, I would more than hear about them. At that moment though, everyone was far too terrified to speak. We stuck to the main roads, and I think that everyone felt a little bit better and a little bit worse having a crowd of people around them. No one needed to say it. The sensation was in the air like a bad smell.


Chapter 13: What Happened on the Road