Grey the Mercenary Tales
A series of steampunk, swashbuckling novellas set in another solar system far across the cosmos. Each novella features a unique protagonist with unique problems, who will soon make the acquaintance of a mysterious, elderly swordsman.
The novellas can be read in any order.
A Poet of Travenna
A poor poet wanders the bridges and avenues of Travenna, wrestling with a terrible fate. He loves Belmiro, a wealthy merchant’s son, but Belmiro’s cruel twin sister, Laudalina, engages in spiteful machinations to ensure that the two young lovers remain apart.
Knowing that he must win a duel or forfeit Belmiro’s affections forever, all seems lost until the poet stumbles across the path of an accomplished, if inebriated, swordsman…
A Street Rat of Salagena
Slavers stalk the streets of Salagena, abducting the orphans that live there and bearing them off to places that only the Saints' know. When her friend Graciela is about to be taken by a group of these slavers, Suzanna heroically springs into action to save her.
Alas, her selfless act has drawn the slavers' ire, sending her fleeing through the ruins on the outskirts of Salagena. Will she be able to escape their clutches?
Other Stories
Grignyr the Ecordian
(Novella)
In 2018, Geoff Bottone read The Eye of Argon and discovered, to his surprise, that there was an actual story lurking beneath the misspellings and malapropisms of the original. With editing pen in hand, he set out on a lonely, and perhaps futile, quest to redeem Mr. Theis' work by using its foundation to tell an interesting and fun story.
The Fear Vampire
(Short Story)
As the Assistant Editor for Weird Meridian Magazine, Hawthorne Fischel has seen plenty of strange phenomena and talked to quite a number of interesting people and creatures. Tonight, at a diner on the corner of Eighth and Dunphey, he will interview a fear vampire.