Fryda's Freedom

By Britt McCormick

Fryda's Freedom is a fantasy short story. Giacomo only looks out for himself, ever since he was a child in his home city. Being in and out of prisons, he is no amateur at committing crimes. After going to prison for a robbery and murder, he leaves the place he's known for years and joins a trade ship to start a new life. He joins Captain Fausto and Quartermaster Paulo as a deckhand, hoping he could make some easy money to help get him started in a new city, but he never could have expected what would happen during their journey.

After being attacked by a monstrous deep-sea octopus, only Giacomo, Captain Fausto, and Quartermaster Paulo survive and find themselves in a new and unknown land. The three are saved by an unknown civilization of reptilian beings, the Andritan people. Paulo makes friends with an Andritan woman. She helps Paulo and Giacomo escape to their home city, only to find herself trapped in a world she didn't understand.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9798892211710

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Fryda's Freedom

Britt McCormick

Copyright © 2023 Britt McCormick

All rights reserved

First Edition

Fulton Books

Meadville, PA

Published by Fulton Books 2023

ISBN 979-8-88982-418-3 (paperback)

ISBN 979-8-89221-171-0 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Giacomo's dark tan skin melted with the shadowed tree trunk; he had his stomach pressed up against it. The sun had begun to set, sending the lush bright forest into a hazy darkening maze. Twenty feet to his right was Aldaberto, also pressed against a tree. Aldaberto had covered himself in oversized dark-brown long-sleeved and mud-covered pants to help him blend into the forest. Aldaberto gave Giacomo a look of concern and impatience before the light steps of horses and rickety wooden carriage spokes rolled behind them. Both men lightly rested their bodies tight to the tree. The hooves and wheels got louder and louder and mingled with the new sound of the driver whistling a comforting tune. Giacomo peered to the right of his tree, finally saw the head of one of the horses, and nodded to Aldaberto. Aldaberto shoved all of his body against the tree, and the trunk started to come out of the drenched dirt embankment it jutted from. Giacomo shoved his body against his tree, and it also upended easily. Smash! The horses bucked back a little from the tree pushed by Aldaberto, then quickly jumped forward from Giacomo's tree falling, which pulled the carriage driver into the dirt. Aldaberto and Giacomo had already gotten to the driver before he could stand, and both stabbed him in the neck before he could get to his feet.

A high-pitched scream came from the carriage. Giacomo shot his eyes up at a woman wearing dark-blue cloth pants, a green tunic, and bright-yellow wooden clogs as she held herself up with her left hand on the carriage. As quick as he saw her, he sunk his knife into her stomach. Giacomo caught her slumped body and slowly laid