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France, 1425 The country lies nearly broken; from across the Channel, English forces continue their unrelenting assault, holding more than a third of the realm in their grip. Charles, the Dauphin and disputed heir to the French throne, has been driven south, beyond the Loire River; bankrupt and with a defeated army, his position is crumbling, his hopes bleak. Further weakening his hold, the powerful Duchy of Burgundy, long a rival of Charles' house, has made alliance with the English. Supported by the foreign invaders, the Burgundians press closer and closer from the east. Attacked from...

WHISPERS...ECHOES...REMEMBRANCES... The past lives just a heartbeat away from the present, a shadow cast forward. One way or another, it tends to stick around; in fading photos, lingering songs, or yellowing papers and notebooks shoved in drawers or boxed up in closets. Here, all dusted off and assembled in one place, are the tales I wrote while involved with the gaming company Game Systems, Inc. Each appearing originally in the journal "Whisper of the Wood" from the later 1980's through the earlier 1990's. Tales of breathless adventure, epic fantasies both light and dark, and grim,...

Starting as a teenager in the 1980's, award-winning playwright and novelist Dennis Edelen began keeping a journal of poetry, mirroring his experiences and thoughts coming of age in the late Twentieth and early Twenty-First centuries. This collection of the most significant pieces, spanning the years 1981 to 2011, presents a unique mosaic of an everyday life documented in an unusual and creative way. Drawing from influences as wide-ranging as classical literature and the First World War, modern music and the Romantic tradition, THREE DECADES/ONE LIFE is an intimate self-portrait framed in...