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

No man's land separating the opposing armies consisted of a strip of grass-covered rolling terrain a quarter-mile wide and three miles long. Like the Romans, each side organized their units by legions, cohorts, centuria, and squads called contubernium. It's hard to imagine one hundred thousand soldiers facing another hundred thousand, each intent on killing the other. Nevertheless, it was a sobering sight.


King Arthur Pendragon led his Roundtable Knights out to the center of no man’s land. Sir Galahad bore the king’s banner depicting a red dragon on a field of green and white. Merlin rode with us. I had not seen the wizard since coming to Camlann, but I was relieved to see him now.


Not to be outdone, Mordred led a dozen of his knights out to meet with us. “Father,” he greeted.


“Son,” Arthur replied. “What are your intentions?”


“Isn’t it obvious? I intend to kill you and ascend the throne. I will rule the Anglos. Anglo land will be mine.”


Chapter 44