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 ran to the ramparts expecting to see a vast horde of armed men surrounding the city, but instead, a lone warrior in chainmail approached at the head of a ragtag band of peasants. There must’ve been two hundred of them.


To my left, I saw Sir Robert and approached him. “Who are they?” I asked.


“Refugees would be my guess,” he replied. “They look half-starved. Groups like this have been showing up every week or two, so I have been told. Mordred’s troops have been burning and pillaging to the east. They have nowhere else to go.”


A tall knight joined us and hailed the rider as he reined in before the gates. “Sir Percival, welcome back from errantry. I see you brought in more strays.”


The rider removed his helm and gave the speaker a wan smile. “Greetings, Sir Kay. Mordred slew their Lord and a thousand their neighbors, very not even the women and children. This is all that remains of their village.”


Chapter 9