Dr. Shaun Duke, Professional Nerd

Editor. Writer. Professor. Host.

SoD Chapter Four: Of Traditions Doubled

Laura remembered falling, but she couldn’t pinpoint when she had struck the water. It had all happened so fast, and yet so slow at the same time. Where she was at one moment seemed ages from where she was before and in that time she found herself even more confused, for instead of striking the […]

SoD Chapter Three: Of Ocean’s Fury and the Hunt

James slammed into the railing of the Luu’tre, his face stricken with terror after seeing Laura plummet over the edge. He barely held to the wooden edge as the ship rocked like a teeter-totter, partially settled in the giant reef below.“Laura!” he screamed over and over, his voice becoming a hoarse cry of despair.Captain Norp […]

SoD Chapter Two: Of the Lives of Loe

The Luu’tre had struck ground. Sort of. She had hit something hard and unmoving, that much was clear, but when James and the others came out into the tempest they found the ship held at bay by something rocky, porous, and the color of the sun at sunset over thin mustache clouds.Laura knew then what […]

SoD Chapter One: Of Dire Passages

(I am going to start reposting these in the correct order along with new chapters as they become available.  And so the journey begins! Chapter One of The Spellweaver of Dern!  Thanks for reading!) The Luu’tre lilted to her side, spraying water up onto the deck and drenching anyone who wasn’t already soaked from the […]