Burn In Hades: Chapter 12 – Soul Mates
1 – The Handmaid Nine-year-old Charles had listened intently for weeks as hushed stories of a “Moses” helping slaves escape circulated quietly among the plantation. Still, the anticipation frazzled his nerves. He had expected the evening they revolted and planned for the rifle shots, screams of anguish, chaos, and commotion—yet nothing could have prepared him for […]
Burn In Hades: Chapter 11 – A Rope Of Sand
1 – A Catch Cross lay helplessly upon the altar, the cold of the crystal beneath him seeping into his ruach. His mind raced with thoughts of a last-second rescue and escape, but they faded until… A resounding boom clattered through the atmosphere, reverberating against the ancient walls of the majestic temple as if it […]
Burn In Hades: Chapter 10 – The Path To Cross
1 – Forfax Diamond Tooth rode the ankou’s ferry across the white void. The boat glided past the nymphs who gamboled in the meadows and sailed through the A’raf. The vessel protected her from the scintillating bolts of lightning that lashed out from the barrier of Paradise, and the lumenite stone the ankou had forced […]
Burn In Hades: Chapter 9 – In Bedlam With The Enemy
1 – Lechery Cross bided his time during his sojourn with the Raven in the echoing Viņsaule canyons through an interminable sequence of sleep cycles. The waking periods slipped quietly through his fingers, like sand in an hourglass. Yet he had grown accustomed to the Raven’s presence. The Raven might have been a reluctant conversationalist, […]
Burn In Hades: Chapter 8 – Paradise Lost
1 – The Ferryman Divine light assailed Diamond Tooth from all directions, its brilliance emanating from nowhere and everywhere, washing all it touched on its side of the A’raf with pervasive and offensive love. With the lumenite no longer protecting her ruach, the warmth of the light bruised her astral surface and smothered her breathing. […]
Burn In Hades: Chapter 7 – The Man Who Remembers
1 – The Raven Cross’s hands were bound behind him. He lay on his stomach, bouncing atop Gimlet’s hindquarters as the Raven drove his pet cornurus through the sinister plateaus of black glass. Gimlet’s spiked tail plowed through the obsidian terrain that stretched endlessly before them. Each jolt to Cross’s chest stole away his breath, […]
Burn In Hades: Chapter 6 – Ebony Bird
1 – Crossroad Gimlet staggered through the desolation of Xibalbá for hours on end. Her gait, which had been strong when they’d set out, was now sluggish and labored. Her hooves must’ve ached from the jagged terrain she traversed, and the blazing heat of the fiery sky above was wearying. Above all, she had to […]
Burn In Hades: Chapter 5 – Making Spirits Blight
1 – Viņsaule Diamond Tooth navigated her mangy hellhound up the menacing walls of the Viņsaule mesa, an oblong-shaped butte rising out of the parched wasteland like a malformed mushroom. The hard-to-reach summit stood as a black beacon in the fiery sky with cliffs, challenging even the most committed, like Diamond Tooth. The first glimpse […]
Burn In Hades: Chapter 4 – Die Fledermaus
Cross heaved against the sheer mass of the imposing iron aviary door, his muscles straining to slide the latch in place as it groaned under its weight. An angry chorus of screeching and raging echoed around him as he fought the force of the frenzied squals attempting to burst through the doorway. Cross plunged the […]
Burn In Hades: Chapter 3 – King Cross
Bolon-Hunahpu sent a barbot careening out of the inferno of the sky. At last, with a thunderous crash, the colossal avian landed in the middle of the ball court as they had planned all along. Bolon-Hunahpu’s boney branches raised the giant, leathery bird aloft, allowing Cross to siphon every drop of its ebony ichor before […]