Sam Gordon is followed by someone dressed like a wizard. He figures the guy to be another San Francisco lunatic until the man meets Sam at his favorite café carrying on about time continuum portals. Assured of the man's insanity, Sam escapes out the back door, which drops him into a strange place.

In a land of green grass and no automobiles, Sam cannot find the door back to the café. He questions his sanity and sets out to find someone who can give him directions. When he is attacked by a swordsman on horseback, a beautiful young woman named Margot, intervenes. She speaks an archaic dialect of Anglo-Saxon — a language Sam didn't know until that moment. Sam travels with them to Camelot and finds himself in King Arthur's court. Working as a blacksmith and studying the druidic arts under Merlin's tutelage, Sam learns he must complete an unknown task before a portal can open to his own place and time.

Merlin's Apprentice is created by B. K. Kerley, an eGlobal Creative Publishing author.

Merlin's Apprentice

I was pissed off when I saw that Miller was actually Merlin or the other way around, but my anger passed to be replaced with caution. I had hardly been aware of my tingling neck in all the excitement, but now that it began to fade, I made a mental note to watch for it in the future. It seemed to be an early wizard warning device. 


Everyone stared at me in stunned silence. The way they cheered at the charlatan’s smoke-and-mirrors spectacle led me to believe Merlin was a celebrity here and perhaps even a hero, and I had just called him a son of a bitch.


“Begging your pardon, sir,” said the page at my elbow. “What strange tongue did utter from your lips?”


Relief, followed by confidence, washed over me at the boy’s question. I had spouted out in English. “Don’t mind me, lad,” I replied. “I’m just tired.”


Arthur stood. This was followed by the scraping of benches and chairs as all others followed suit. “Who, may I ask, are you?”


Chapter 5