Maze; Revenants; Chiaroscuro in Chalk: Three Fantasies

By John Walters

Three dark fantasies. A traveler in the Himalayas trapped in a castle labyrinth must play a guessing game with death the penalty of failure. The undead arise from a surfing beach in California. A chalk drawing on a European sidewalk becomes a doorway into hell.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Walters
• Release date: Mar 30, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310032943

John Walters

John Walters recently returned to the United States after thirty-five years abroad. He lives in Seattle, Washington. He attended the 1973 Clarion West science fiction writing workshop and is a member of Science Fiction Writers of America. He writes mainstream fiction, science fiction and fantasy, and memoirs of his wanderings around the world.

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Maze

Revenants

Chiaroscuro in Chalk:

Three Fantasies

By

John Walters

Published by Astaria Books at Smashwords

Copyright 2014 by John Walters

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Maze

It was like being impaled upon a punctuation mark, so tiny was the kingdom he had stumbled upon; but whether exclamation or question he could not say. He would have gone around it, had he known of it, but it was not mentioned in any trekking guidebook that he had ever read. He had been hiking from Sikkim to Assam, and no sooner had he crossed the border than he was taken into custody by guards in brightly embroidered uniforms and boots of yak skin.

After half a day’s incarceration in