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

The kraken surged through the water to the other ship. I’m guessing because it was closer. With the arrival of the sea monster, they had lost all interest in us and now focused on firing ineffectual arrows at the creature. Tentacles the size of tree trunks slithered up each side of the hull. Men hacked at the appendages with sword and ax, but this only enraged the monster.


Both masts were swept into the sea along with a dozen seamen with a sweeping tentacle. Then the kraken wrapped the entire ship in its tentacles and squeezed. Men screamed, timbers cracked and snapped, and then gave way. The hull collapsed on itself and then pulled down to the depths and presumably to the creature’s lair. A whirlpool spun from the passage and then dissipated, leaving two masts with their canvas rigging floating on the sea. The bodies of the dead bobbed on the swells.


Chapter 28