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  • Silverwood: Chapter 7

    The chamber of the Council of Portals was abuzz with anxious voices talking over one another. Doctor Dinkle was not present. The Grand Magistrate General and Chairman of the Council of Portals was named Doctor Egeaklv. Everyone called him “Judge” or “Magistrate” or “Doctor” or “Chairman.” The Chairman stood in the same spot at the…

  • Silverwood: Chapter 6

    Doctor Julius Dinkle, esteemed member of the Council of Portals and renowned expert on Tromindox behavior and culture, was tense. He was standing at one end of a long, narrow, gleaming table, waiting. He placed his bony hands on the table’s surface but decided that made him look feeble instead of authoritative. He pulled his…

  • Silverwood: Chapter 5

    According to the family stories, Helen’s grandmother was a person who possessed a superhuman ability to make just about anything out of the parts of just about anything else. She tinkered the way other people would sit around and knit. It was said that she could make a sewing machine out of bicycle parts. Or…

  • Silverwood: Chapter 4

    “Helen?” Henry said. He tapped his foot on the floor. He crossed his arms. He uncrossed his arms. He sighed loudly. He pushed his hair back from his face. He crossed his arms again. Out the front window of the apartment the sun was just dipping behind the buildings across the street. Car horns and…