Handmaiden's Fury (13 page)
Authors: JM Guillen
Also by JM
Guillen
One woman’s madness may be the world's only hope.
It is the end of all things.
Grace believed
she was going to be a computer programmer someday and perhaps create programs
that educate children or save lives. She never thought she would have to flee
for her life from her roommate. She also never thought that her roommate would
be a ragged, undead monstrosity that had clawed out her own eyes.
Sometimes, life
takes odd turns.
The turn in
Grace’s life came the night of the Wormwood Star, when the dead awoke and twisted
aberrations began to walk the land. As technology and sanity began to corrode,
all of civilization collapsed.
Meanwhile Grace
and her new comrades struggle to survive and understand what has happened. But
Grace has an advantage, one she doesn't truly comprehend.
At the end of
the Rational world, she holds the only key to the future, written in madness
and blood.
Grace was sent a
curious gathering of old papers- a work convoluted with equations,
constellation alignments, and dire dates in history. The more she reads, the
more the nature of the work shreds the remnants her mind, until eventually
Grace cannot tell what is true and what is false. She has horrific waking
dreams and begins to doubt all she knows.
Which is
unfortunate, as the papers imply that she may, in fact, be the only person on
the planet who can change what has happened.
When the Rational world falls, Irrationality may be
the last hope humanity has.
A Myriad of Worlds...
This story is only one of the myriad paths into our bent
and Irrational worlds, one which has others forthcoming. This bizarre tale
follows the cataclysmic experience of Grace Juarez, a college student caught up
in the midst of the apocalypse. It is a story of a modern world, a world of
familiar technology, intellect, and indulgence on the brink of catastrophe.
This series is
itself part of
The Paean of Sundered Dreams
, a multi-genre,
universe-spanning array of tales with Lovecraftian themes. Some of the strands
of this work are science fiction, some fantasy, and some steampunk, but they
share the same horrific universe. They weft and weave together, leaving
breadcrumbs of clues for the next story.
Each tale
echoes a beating heart of darkness, cackling quietly in the shadows of
existence.
If you are the
kind of reader who cannot rest until every secret is found, for whom genre is
unimportant, and who will travel a wide and vast multiverse to learn things man
was not meant to know…
Welcome, wayward
wanderer.
This was written for you.
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Sundered Dreams
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The
Dossiers of Asset 108
:
Echoes
of the Untold Age
:
Judicar’s
Oath
:
Regarding
Oaths and the Whispering Flame
A
Canticle of Fire and Shadow
:
Legacy
of the Archons
:
Fall
of the Wormwood Star
:
The
Wormwood Event
A
Sojourn Into Twilight
:
About the Author
JM Guillen was a normal, mild mannered Midwesterner
until he achieved his lifelong dream of being a full-time writer in the summer
of 2011. When one of his stories, The Herald of Autumn, was nominated for a
Nebula Award, it was the final straw for his mundanity.
He immediately went mad with a miniscule,
insignificant amount of power.
Soon he was declaring himself to be “exempt from the
laws of men, regarding pants,” and conducting mad experiments regarding human
tolerance for rum. In between attempts at taking over Strafford, Missouri, he
also dabbles in weird fiction. Besides science fiction, fantasy, and horror, he
is best known for implementing schemes, plots, and ploys.
Today, the self-described supervillain spends his days
scribing The Paean of Sundered Dreams, a cycle of series that all blend and
interweave. This is his greatest scheme yet, as discovering the myriad
connections between these worlds tend to drive his readers mad.
This
is a work of wonderful fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this
book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely
coincidental.
Except
when not.
Handmaiden’s Fury
Copyright
of JM Guillen. - © 2012-2016. All rights reserved.
Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of
the contents in any form is limited.
An
Irrational Worlds book
Printed
in the United States of America