This is part 4 of 4. Never have sillier words been presented on so inane a topic, and I apologize profusely, but this was kind of fun. A History of the Period (The Ending) Who is to say what the period did in his time in Rhodes, where he made his home in Lindos […]
Burst – A History of the Period (Part III of IV)
A History of the Period (Part III of IV) Day and night, the Khan battled wits with our poet hero, trying to understand his secrets. But how clever was that poet, how carefully did he hide the truth, even when the Khan raged against the heavens with sword in hand! And yet […]
Burst – A History of the Period (Part II)
Part I is found here: http://trentlewin.com/2012/09/18/burst-a-history-of-the-period/ A History of the Period (Part II) In the mayhem that resulted, our shaman and his coal miner friend were slain. The period – alone, bereft, nearly lost altogether – lay quivering in the snow, until a young girl plucked him up and carried him off. Oh but here was […]
Burst – A History of the Period
A History of the Period There is a range of mountains that spreads into Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and Kyrgyzstan, a place Marco Polo once called the Roof of the World; from a particular shelf in the snow, all five countries can be seen at once. It is the place that gave birth to […]