Nicholas R Searcy

Once upon a time, a mile-long walk would have taken at least fifteen or twenty minutes, but in this instance, Elijah and...

The drumbeat had become incessant.  Zeke heard it every second of every day.  It didn’t matter if he’d just awoken after...

“No armor?” asked Sadie. Elijah stuffed the last of his wardrobe into his Ghoul-Hide Satchel, saying, “Flying under the...

Yanking his axe free of his latest victim, Zeke never even saw the blade coming for his neck.  A second later, his head...

Miguel knelt near the site of the cave-in, his senses locked on his surroundings.  The monster he’d encountered there ha...

“There is such a thing as too much soap,” Sadie said, her hands on her hips as she stared at the crates Elijah had piled...

“I hate you so much.  Have I told you that recently?” sighed Carmen, turning the Verdant Fang over in her hands.  She ha...

The moment Zeke stepped through the gate, he was blinded by the bright sun above.  He blinked, clearing his vision with...

The tree was ready. Still, Elijah circled it, inspecting it with each of his senses.  The smell was the most difficult t...

The accusers screamed their accusations, but Zeke paid them no heed.  They had no more power over him.  He’d accepted hi...

Elijah hefted the boulder, then raised it above his head, where he balanced it on one hand.  The pressure felt almost ne...

Isaiah peered at the monitor, which displayed a maze of tiny conduits.  Some blazed with the current of ethera, while ot...

“Put yer gods bedamned pendants on, you rock-brained idjits!” shouted Kurik, his rough voice echoing down the tunnel wel...

Zeke hit the man in a shoulder tackle that should have shattered a mountain.  But to his immense surprise, he rebounded...

“The Forge of Creation,” Carmen said aloud.  “I don’t hate it.” The name had been suggested after a survey of all the ot...