stolen their meagre bounty. But not this day. Unsure how
long it might take him even to rise, the half-orc lay there in
resigned hunger and waited.
Several hours passed before the orcs gathered their
gear and departed. Wank sighed and finally sat up.
“It’s time to leave,” he muttered. Though he knew
the caverns would never leave him.
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Gregory J. Glanz returns to TDS to continue the story of Wank
from the original short story “Shroud of Darkness” (Issue 3). When
not writing, he is an IT and network consultant in the Midwest. For
the past 4 years he has been involved in writing a series of awardwinning
independent documentaries on rural, generational Irish pubs.
He is a homebrewer whose goal is to be able to dunk a basketball
when he turns 60. His short story, A War of the Mind, was
published in Blood and Bourbon.
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