This 7,100 word stand-alone tale of adventure, romance, and action was originally included in New York Times bestselling author Mike Stackpole's Chain Story Project. Each of the stories in the series begins with a scene set in The Wanderers' Club in London, where patrons take turns telling stories of their adventures and derring-do. Though the plots and characters of the various tales differ and each adventure is self-contained and independent, every story-teller starts out by referencing the story before his in some fashion before telling his own tale.

Mike Stackpole's character, Rogers, is used with permission.

About the Author:

Best known as the world's top-ranked player of classic role-playing games for the last fifteen years of the last century, Donald J. Bingle is an oft-published author in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, thriller, steampunk, romance, and comedy genres, with eight books (including the Dick Thornby Thriller series--Net Impact, Wet Work, and Flash Drive--, Forced Conversion, GREENSWORD, and Frame Drive, plus (with Jean Rabe) The Love-Haight Case Files, Vols. 1 and 2) and more than seventy tales, primarily in DAW themed anthologies and tie-in anthologies.

Many of Don's stories are electronically available, individually or in genre collections, including "Tales of Gamers and Gaming," "Tales of Humorous Horror," "Tales Out of Time," "Grim, Fair e-Tales," "Tales of an Altered Past Powered by Romance, Horror, and Steam," "Not-so-Heroic Fantasy," and "Shadow Realities," as well as various collections in print, ebook, and/or audio, including Father's Day, Crimson Life/Crimson Death, Morse Code Mysteries and Missives, and Morse Code Memories and Musings. Donald J. Bingle is a member of the Horror Writers Association, International Thriller Writers, the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, and Origins Game Fair Library. For more about on his writing, go to donaldjbingle.com or follow him on social media @donaldjbingle.