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

“Ogre?” I repeated, not believing my ears. Why would I not believe in ogres, I wondered. After all, hadn’t I already encountered a griffin twice? Then there was the magic. I had successfully teleported and used a blending-in spell. I immediately tried to visualize such a creature, but images in my mind kept displaying Shrek. “Go on,” I prompted.


“Oh yes,” Giles replied. “The ogre kept to his own until one of the baron’s knights reported seeing the beast fishing in a swamp near the border of the Legrand lands. The baron immediately organized a hunt to capture it. After that, he tormented poor thing regularly.”


“Has this ogre a name?” Part of me hoped that the ogre’s name was Shrek, but then I would have to inquire after a talking donkey.


“He goes by Ograrth,” the wizard replied.


I sighed. There seems to be no end to surprises in this world. “Please, take me to this Ograrth.”


Chapter 26