Category: The Cain Chronicles

  • Olympian Sin, Chapter 3

    There is a mountain in the land of Nod. Just the one. And it isn’t really that big. Just cresting past the tree line, it stands majestically because there really isn’t anything else to challenge it. An hour or two of steady hiking will let anyone reach the summit. An ordinary accomplishment, to survey the extraordinary of Nod. Cain liked the call the peak Mount Elementary. Difficult the first time, and then built into one’s […]

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  • Olympian Sin, Chapter 2

    I was a teacher. Once. I was an okay teacher. That was a lifetime ago. A time of sanity, of possibility. Not like right now. Not in this world of infinite screwballs and misunderstood wonders. Where the incredible is mocked and the tarnished raised above all. This is not what I wanted. And now it is what I have. Artemis awoke in a fine bed. She sat up, scared. The night before she had been […]

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  • Olympian Sin, Chapter 1

    In the middle of the Pacific, floating seventeen feet above the ocean, lays the Test. A structure three-hundred and sixty six cubit feet in length, a perfect sphere. A black substance guards from all attacks, and entry is given only to those it deems worthy. The Test appeared five years ago, and none have claimed responsibility for it. Some say it is an attack by a rogue power. Others say it is a gift, given […]

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