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 crash got our attention. “Warm them up, lads!” Baron Guy shouted as another booming impact struck the weakening gate.


Men hurried to tip a hot cauldron mixture of pitch and naphtha that had been simmering over a charcoal brazier. The scalding liquid poured over the shields, leaked through to burn the men, who now screamed in agony, and splattered the ram. The ramming party’s destructive labor ceased immediately.


Arthur grabbed a runner who nearly slipped past. “You, boy. Find me a white flag.”


“I’m supposed to tell Sir Gareth…” the boy stammered.


“Forget it. Your new mission is to find me a white cloth, and I want it yesterday,” Arthur barked. “Now go!”


“Yes, Lord,” the wide-eyed boy said as he bolted like a rabbit before the hound.


With shields held high, enemy reinforcements ran to their writhing fellows and took up the ram, but as they drew back for a blow, Baron Guy shouted, “Fire arrows.”


Chapter 31