Esther Wallace

First Chapter of The Eternal Struggle (The Black Phantom Chronicles #2) Silence… The silence of impending death filled the air. No light broke the thick blackness. Not even a chisel of starlight on a moonless night seeped into his tiny, entombed—could it even be thought—coffin. Air gradually exhausted itself in the abysmal space, and Arnacin’s uncontrolled shivering, his gasping breaths, the very heat of his body, betrayed him. He sat crumpled against what used to be the entrance, sealed shut out of spite. Already, as he forced sleep away, the pain of airlessness allowed no more movement than the last futile twitch of his fingers in the place a doorway had once existed. Crack! A flash of light brought the windowless cabin back. Something in the back of his mind told Arnacin the storm bashing against all four walls was reality. His trembling body, however, insisted that the sound was wishful thinking, a last hope granted before he died in darkness. For hours on end, it was impos

Scenes from the Alternate Prologue to The Savage War Cover of the Savage War (If you've never read it, you can preview the actual prologue on Amazon here: https://cstu.io/2f43d7 ) Cheers burst from the plain vessel as Arnacin of Enchantress Island hooked his sister’s arm and swung her in a circle of delight. His ship floated! With long oars, he, his sister, their father, and his best friend had shunted the vessel out into the deep, where they now let it drift beneath the overcast sky. “All you need is a mast and a shelter, Arnacin,” the fourteen-year-old’s father exclaimed, “and you and Raymond are off to sea.” “Just another year, the way we’re going,” his best friend, Raymond, surmised, clapping Arnacin on the back. Being nearly twenty, Raymond stood a whole head taller than his little “adopted” brother, something Arnacin swore would change within that year. “Arnacin,” his father suddenly called in alarm. Whirling, Arnacin spotted the solid curtain of rain

A Turkey in a yard from a 'how to' video on Youtube Thanksgiving Decorations Or the lack of them With October over, stores are putting up Thanksgiving dec... or I mean Christmas decorations. There may be a few inflatable turkeys or a turkey figurine here or there, but for the most part, Thanksgiving is not an easy holiday for those who like to decorate their house to match the day. So how about you? Do you find this a problem? Why or why not?

Merlin Review/Story Plot Unlike the classic image of Merlin as an old, wise wizard, Julian Murphy’s and Johnny Capps’s Merlin rewrites the image. The series starts as a twenty-year-old Merlin travels to Camelot, sent by his mother to her friend, Camelot’s physician, Gaius. Her intention is for the physician to become the father-figure for her fatherless, magical son. It seems easy. Merlin even smiles with excitement as he sees Camelot for the first time, a shining white castle on the horizon. Mood and music quickly alter, however, as the wizard arrives inside the city just in time to witness King Uther’s execution of a person charged with performing magic. As the ax falls, the king commences to remind those gathered that all magic is pure evil and punishable by death. Despite the imminent danger, Merlin finds Gaius and remains in Camelot. And like the naïve boy he is, he shrugs aside his peril, carelessly using his own untrained magic, even in a bout with the young, seem

Wrinkle in Time Movie Review For those who have no idea what the story is about, Meg Murry's father tessered off planet Earth four years ago. Then three ladies appear (Mrs. Whatsit, Who, and Which), charging Meg, along with her brother and a friend from school, the task of leaving Earth themselves to find the Murry's long lost father. Eventually, their travels lead them to the planet of evil itself, Camazotz, where they are tested beyond all they ever imagined. In a society filled with the wrong ideas about self-worth, it is nice that this film does some things right. Meg starts out in the film as a girl constantly wishing to be other than she is. She is someone who feels ugly, misplaced, and completely alone. As far as she is concerned, she has too many faults and hardly any strengths at all. As she travels outside the world, she slowly comes to realize that she was made with purpose. As Mrs. Which so eloquently says, "Do you realize how many events, choices, tha

Why the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Hawkeye deserves more attention When most people talk about the latest Marvel films, very rarely is Hawkeye listed as a favorite or even mentioned at all. Iron man, Thor, the Hulk, and Captain America are the highlights, with extras such as the most recent Black Panther added to them. A large group of “supporters for woman rights” will also discuss Black Widow and why they think she is misused and should receive her own stand-alone film. Whatever the case, the greatest Marvel hero among them remains in the background, in people’s imagination and quite literally. One thing must be remembered or it won’t matter: regardless of religion or beliefs, everyone knows that when trouble comes, it is not the best fighter or the flashiest that makes a hero. Marvel itself states that when they make Captain America a sick kid from a very large city—quite frankly a small nobody. Here’s where they forget that knowledge: Captain America must go through radical