The Millionaire and the Sorcerer

By Daniella T. Sonrious

The Millionaire and the Sorcerer

He listened attentively when Grandpa talked. Curiosity is a terrible curse, he decided. And curious Zander was. He knew that they were considered outsiders on their street even when he was in Grade 2. He just knew it even though people were nice to him and to his mother.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Daniella T. Sonrious
• Release date: Jan 17, 2015
• ISBN: 9781507071052

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Title Page

Carl Wiseman was not yet used to his new lifestyle. The one thing that amazed him was that sitting in his housecoat at 11 a.m. playing World of Warcraft made him feel guilty. He’d been doing the same thing for years instead of looking for a job and never felt a twinge of guilt. It was even more entrenched than that. It gave him the great feeling that he had control of his own life. His father, his older brother, even his mother, could nag him all they wanted to. He just tuned them out in his role as an undead gnome priest with his pet panther.

Now that he didn’t need to look for a job or fight against the pressure to do anything that bored him, it bothered him. He tried to fight off the feeling that his game was not as enticing because he was now free to play it all day long every day. It really did seem to be more fun when he knew he should be doing something more productive.

More productive? What did that mean anyway? Was his brother productive, being an accountant for a hardware store? What meaning did that give to the wider world?

He leaned back from the oversized computer screen and looked at his avatar and his sidekick, the sleek