King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

“Wossit?” Gog stared entranced.
“The Builders made it,” I said. “It’s a thousand years old.”
Row and Red Kent came over to see.
 “I’m told they call it a watch,” I said. “And you can see why.”
In truth, I’d been watching it a lot myself. It had a face on it behind crystal, with twelve hours marked and sixty minutes, and two black arms that moved, one slow, one slower still, to point out the time. Entranced, I had opened it up at the back with the point of my knife and gazed into the guts of the thing. The hatch popped back on a minute hinge as if the Builders had known I would want to see inside. Wheels within wheels, tiny, toothed, and turning. How they made such things so small and so precise I cannot guess but to me it is a wonder past any man-made sun or glow-light.

Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

“The ones who built this road . . . if they’d make me a castle—” Thunder in the east cut across my words.

“If the Road-men built castles, we’d never get in anywhere,” Makin said. “Be happy they’re gone.”

Musical Interlude the Twenty-Ninth

Hot and burning in your nostrils
Pouring down your gaping mouth
Your molten bodies, blanket of cinders
Caught in the throes

The Apocalypse in the Sunday Funnies

Free Apocalyptic Books (nineteen)

Same drill. These are free but for an undetermined length of time. Get them now in other words.


1) Tin by Parker Zane

2) The Chop Shop by Christopher Heffernan

3) City of Nevaeh by Johannes J Visser

4) Damnation Day 1 - Hell's Angel by Val Cornishhttp

5) Damnation Day 2 - Games People Play by Val Cornish

6) Damnation Day III - Here be Dragons by Val Cornish

7) Desperate Times by Nicholas Antinozzi, Sue McInnis and Steve Peterson

 

8) Malediction by Paul Westwood

9) Thirty Years Gone by Louis Bertrand Shalako