The Last Watcher

By Lee Pletzers

The tower was impossibly large and impossibly black. It rose high in the green sky. 

Aaron has watched over the tower his entire adult life. He is now an old man, and climbing the steps to his throne, his water seat, is not as easy as it once was. He has chest pains and is sometimes short of breath. His life was coming to an end.

The creatures in the tower know this. They have waited patiently. Their chance at freedom is coming. 
The tower is cracking. The Old Ones are stirring. 

Another watcher must be found. 

Dean loves bodybuilding and fencing. On the day when Sparrows go mad, he enters a unisex bathroom and exits into a barren, dust-riddled world, with a green sky and nothing for miles around--except a staircase. 

The old Watcher meets the new Watcher. 
Not all Watchers are destined to duty when fate steps in.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Writersltd
• Release date: Oct 8, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386367185

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The Last Watcher

Lee Pletzers

First published in Japan in September 2017 by Triskaideka Books under the pen name, Richard Lee, via Amazon Direct publishing.

This e-edition published October 2021 by Writersltd

©2021 Lee Pletzers

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Part One

Dust filled the sky turning daylight into miasma and obscuring the clouds and green sky.

The old man clambered up the long flight of steps and walked directly to a stone throne built in the shape of a large Sparrow. A soft, threadbare cushion gave the only comfort on the hard rock of the throne. He laid his crooked staff at the foot of the throne, brushed the dust off his long robe and took his seat.

On the throne, he sat at the second tallest peak in the land. Below him, the ground was a sickening red-brown. Nothing grew there. The flat land rolled out before him unchanged in the ninety years he had taken breath and the tallest building rose into the sky not far off in the distance.

It was a Tower.

A prison built in the times of old.  

And it held the Old Ones.

According