Iron Road

By Mike Brandish

Some places are great to rest. Others are good to explore. If you mix them up, you might end up finding more than you asked for.
The construction of the new railroad to the capital would be a task to put a man's name in history. The small brazilian village was inhabited by natives before it was colonized, natives who had great obscure powers, lost in time. However, some of the ancient knowledge is protected by a hidden tribe. Knowledge to prevent the destruction of mankind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Brandish
• Release date: Sep 27, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370858002

Mike Brandish

Since I was a child, I always had a knack for strategic and intellectual games, specially RPGs. I would spend hours and hours detailing wondrous worlds and awe inspiring creatures that would inhabit fantasy worlds of the future or the past. That lead me to a lot of reading, specially H. P. Lovecraft, Andre Vianco, Isaac Asimov and other great writers of the genres fantasy, terror and science fiction.

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Iron Road

Mike Brandish

There is a force that drives human lives, keeping us warm in our moments of weakness, certain that if we persist a little longer; if we stand the ordeal as good lambs, will be rewarded with what we desire. We are led to believe that we don't even know how good it will be, but having a true belief, we will reach eternal life. I never believed in such higher power, until I faced one. Certainly, my reaction was not of bliss but the purest and rational horror to the aberrative creature that showed itself to me. Had I a feebler mind, the mere sight would shatter my sanity, though I'm not certain it did not. I still feel its presence in the back of my mind, the disturbing shadow in the corner of the eye that flees when I try to focus it. Of course, if there is a soul, mine is marked by the abomination of my actions in those