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 got two steps into my charge before the four knights reversed their weapons, pommels forward towards me. One of them said, “Sir Sam, do you not recognize your friends?”


My momentum took me two more steps before I stopped in front of them. It took my adrenaline-filled brain a second or two to recognize the voice as Lancelot’s.


“What?” I had trouble forming words. A moment ago, I thought I would die in a death charge. In hindsight, it probably would’ve been more prudent to run away. Retreating before a pissed off griffin is one thing, but running away from man is just not in my moral makeup. I now recognized Sir Lancelot, Sir Bedivere, Sir Percival, and Sir Robert. “What are you doing here?”


“The lady Margot sent us,” Sir Robert said.


Sir Percival grinned broadly. “Your mission, if successful, will weaken Arthur’s enemies for the good of Camelot. Furthermore, we are here to serve you and aid you in gaining a barony so that you may win the hand of the lady Margot.”


Chapter 22