Historically, this had been to the benefit of Boston, insofar as the river served as a moat to protect the settlers from the wilderness that lay beyond the outskirts of old Newtowne. But in modern times, the river’s boundary was a limiting factor, and surely Boston would have otherwise absorbed C...
BUT THE ANSWER YOU SEEK IS NOT AMONG THEM. From the Tragedy of Silenus, text corrected and translated by Ariadne “Are you going to tell me where we’re going?” I asked Mike as we watched the sunrise from a truck stop somewhere along Interstate 58. We’d driven straight through the evening in a non-...
The Immortal Chronicles: Hard-Boiled Immortal is one of an ongoing series of short stories written by Adam, the immortal narrator of Immortal and Hellenic Immortal. Look for more from Adam in future Chronicle stories, and get ready for the third book—Immortal at the Edge of the World—c...
My earliest memory is something along the lines of fire good, ice bad, so I think I predate written history, but I don’t know by how much. I like to brag that I’ve been there from the beginning, and while this may very well be true, I generally just say it to pick up girls.”--Adam the ImmortalSur...
They aren’t for me and never were. Evidently a certain somebody has been making herself useful in the kitchen. The only problem is, I’m pretty sure I can’t trust her. Not after all that’s happened. I guess it’s possible she’s also a captive of some kind but if she is, I’d wager she’s got much...
The Immortal Chronicles: Immortal At Sea (volume 1) Adam's adventures on the high seas have taken him from the Mediterranean to the Barbary Coast, and if there's one thing he learned, it's that maybe the sea is trying to tell him to stay on dry land. The Immortal Chron...
the corporal said, with a trace of irritation. This wasn’t the best attitude to have when being questioned by a general, but he looked like he wasn’t working on a lot of sleep. General Morris didn’t seem too put off by it. “We have your statement,” Morris said. “And you’re...
It was difficult to explain what it was like to be on the other side of what she called the veil. To begin with, the very definition—while descriptive—wasn’t accurate. Going there wasn’t like pulling aside a curtain (or cutting it with a sword) and stepping through so much as it was traveling i...
The Immortal Chronicles: Immortal At Sea (volume 1) Adam's adventures on the high seas have taken him from the Mediterranean to the Barbary Coast, and if there's one thing he learned, it's that maybe the sea is trying to tell him to stay on dry land. The Immortal Chronic...
The Immortal Chronicles: Immortal At Sea (volume 1) Adam's adventures on the high seas have taken him from the Mediterranean to the Barbary Coast, and if there's one thing he learned, it's that maybe the sea is trying to tell him to stay on dry land. The Immortal Chronic...
It was fortunate that Hsu and I had spent all those months beforehand talking to people in monasteries along the Road and trying to understand how to get close to Abraham bin Yasser, because we ended up absorbing a great deal about how trade went through the Indies. It wasn’t at all long before w...