The Thing from the Dread Swamp
While travelling through the Dread Swamp¸ Thurvok¸ the sellsword¸ and his friends¸ Meldom¸ thief¸ cutpurse and occasional assassin¸ Meldom's sweetheart Lysha and the sorceress Sharenna come across an overturned wagon and the terrified merchant Polyxo who babbles that a monster has taken his daughter Cerissa. Because they are heroes ‐ and because Polyxo has offered them a sizeable reward ‐ the quartet of adventurers offers to rescue Cerissa from the thing that lives in the Dread Swamp. This is a short story of 5300 words or 19 print pages in the Thurvok sword and sorcery series¸ but may be read as a standalone. Includes an introduction and afterword.