Funny I know, to think that a newspaper office had a newsstand in it, but we did share the building with other offices, and the stand carried more tha... just the Star, including a good selection of magazines and paperback books."Morning Spider, what brings you to my stand on a Monday morning?" Kenny the news man asked. It occurred to me that I had no idea what Kenny's last name was, or even if he liked to be called Kenny. Everyone called him that though. He had to be in his fifties though, so I. As it rose it absorbed the light in the cavern. As the available light was being absorbed Draclyon emitted a deep ruby red light that was intensified, the likes of which I had never seen before. The cries of anguish from Merlin due to his misdeeds increased in intensity. The torment was a suitable warning to this entire plane of reality. This man or apparition still should be honored and given his respect due. I called to the Mother Goddess and to all the Gods to mend Merlin's mind and essence.. He had not even a handful of friends, everyone knew everyone, but that was about it. Recently he had been feeling more and more depressed, his thoughts sometimes turning to suicide. Home life was...well it wasn't a home anymore... “Good morning Mr. Knight”, said his homeroom teacher, Mr. Toer. “Morning”, Jess replied back. He took his seat and started on the homework he didn't finish last night. Math was a particularly hard subject for Jess. He was just one bad grade away from failing the. Since his youth – and now he was seventy if a day – he had been known as a cocksman. It was said that he had bedded every chambermaid, scullery maid, and serving wench in his castle. If a shepherdess or milkmaid anywhere in his dominions happened to catch his eye, she could count on receiving a visit from him within two nights. And a pretty girl of the village might at any moment find herself summoned to the castle, kept there for days, weeks, or months, and sent back, sometimes pregnant,.