The Jack of Souls, by Stephen Merlino (40:00)
Today’s From the Firehose produces a survivor! Huzzah!
Today’s From the Firehose produces a survivor! Huzzah!
Today we are reminded that beta readers are not a replacement for a good editor.
Today we see that when repeated word patterns are persistent, immersion is impossible once you’ve noticed them.
Today we see that dread does not come from a firehose. It trickles at us with surgical precision, dripped in tiny installments from an eye dropper.
They’re lazy. They’re unskilled. And now the fate of the Kingdom is in their hands. Tam, Kern, and Merrik are all failing at life: a homeless thief, a disgraced baker’s…