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That's all of The Crooked Key! I hope you enjoyed it. Sadly, though I wanted about 100 subscribers in order to continue the story, I only got about 30, which...
The Crooked Key, Chapter 18: The Key Turns
Chapter 18: The Key Turns Nowan de Valc’s mollusk helmet had fallen off its perch. Eilo picked it up. “Skaithness?” he asked. “We won!” she said. He could...
The Crooked Key, Chapter 17: Tricks and Trinkets
Chapter 17: Tricks and TrinketsThey ran for it, of course. When the banisher looked back, he saw Nowan de Valc being lowered on a broad wooden platform, the...
The Crooked Key, Chapter 16: Wind and Wave
Chapter 16: Wind and Wave They swarmed up onto the beach and the dock, killing and ripping before the workers on the docks even understood what they faced....
The Crooked Key, Chapter 15: Rational Politics
Chapter 15: Rational Politics Subscribe now Eilo slept late, as he normally woke with the sun, and it took an extra hour for the sun to reach Rynne’s...
The Crooked Key, Chapter 14: How to Conjure Demons
Chapter 14: How to Conjure Demons Subscribe now People watched the strange woman go. Aklurian’s eyes narrowed. Fearing what might happen if the hexguards...
The Crooked Key, Chapter 13: Overheard at the Banquet
Chapter 13: Overheard at the Banquet Subscribe now Despite the famous saying, it is in fact entirely possible to argue with results. Unfortunately for...
The Crooked Key, Chapter 12: The Completely Forgotten Island
Chapter 12: The Completely Forgotten Island Subscribe now “So,” Eilo asked after they had both caught their breath, “how long do you think it will take them...
The Crooked Key, Chapter 11: Remembering a Poem
Subscribe now Chapter 11: Remembering a PoemThe banisher bit back a scream, as the hexguards might still be close. “I’ll look for them!” Skaithness said in...
The Crooked Key, Chapter 10: Not Literally
We're now about halfway through The Crooked Key, and as I said, I'll write more of these stories if I can just get up to 100 followers. Right now we're not...
The Crooked Key, Chapter 9: The Green Spike
Chapter 9: The Green Spike Subscribe now The slaughter down below was horrific. When the venomous tentacles had killed everything in a great arc around the...
The Crooked Key, Chapter 8: To Hang an Elephant
Chapter 8: To Hang an Elephant Subscribe now Despite the occasional assassination, outbreak of banditry, or, of course, monster attack, the Emmer Duchies had...
The Crooked Key, Chapter 7: Certain Hard-to-follow Legal Precedents
Chapter 7: Certain Hard-to-follow Legal Precedents Subscribe now The banisher left that night, consumed by his two failures in Upper Bant—the deaths of Medru...
The Crooked Key, Chapter 6: Honest Work
Chapter 6: Honest WorkFirst, welcome to everyone who arrived from Choice of Games! It's great to have you here! Remember to subscribe for updates every...
The Crooked Key, Chapter 5: The Library of the Cat
“If I bleed to death down here,” the duke said, “I will return to haunt you.”“No you won’t,” the banisher said. “You lack that particular quality of rage...
The Crooked Key, Chapter 4: The Mollusk Knight
Chapter 4: The Mollusk KnightThough he was on an adventure intended to connect him with his savage and warlike ancestors in the eyes of the common people,...
The Crooked Key, Chapter 3: Circling the Swamp
Chapter 3: Circling the SwampEilo got up out of the freezing water before it soaked through his coat. Since the armored woman did not appear to be an...
The Crooked Key, Chapter 2: Foxes and Dogs
Chapter 2: Foxes and DogsThe banisher spent twenty minutes trying to find Lord Gloce. Finally, the blacksmith was able to give Eilo directions: the old man...
The Crooked Key, Chapter 1: A Man Stands in the Corner
Chapter 1: A Man Stands in the CornerThere is an order to the world; only, no one knows what it is. Like many before me, I will try to explain the years of...
Welcome to The Crooked Key
The Crooked Key is a complete 67,000-word fantasy novel that will appear right here, in serialized form! I'll post a new chapter twice a week, on Mondays and...