Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Going Home
    Going Home
    Going Home
    Ebook42 pages41 minutes

    Going Home

    By Michael Stuer

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    The arch wizard, M'kallen Uer, has given his daughter, Tyanne, the tower their family called home after first arriving on the the world of Aldaria. While showing her small drake companion, Ageopuffranisar (Puff, for short), around their new abode, the pair soon discover a secret that had remained hidden the entire time Tyanne and her kin lived in the tower. But fascination quickly turns to terror when a figure from ancient times threatens to return to the world and bent on vengeance and domination. What is a young wizardess to do when her home is about to become a battlefield and her very existence is threatened?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Stuer
    Release dateJul 31, 2013
    ISBN9781301689798
    Going Home
    Author

    Michael Stuer

    I have been a writer ever since I was about 12 years old...although those stories had taken the form of Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica inspired scripts. in about 1992, inspiration struck again but, this time in the form of a short story involving the betrayal of an adventuring group by one of its members (who wound up having his own life snuffed out by the same devilish being whom he threw over his friends to). But that story has taken on a life of its own and evolved and changed into something I had never initially had envisioned. These days, I am busy writing the entire first season of a series I hope to see become a spectacular fantasy web series (more on that as things develop).

    Related to Going Home

    Related ebooks

    Fantasy For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      To Save Arrhinsal

      Sep 1, 2021

      TOLIN CRAWLED FORWARD, staying alert. All around, the dense, wiry thickets of the hedge were strangely silent. That usually meant danger, when the green tangle of thorns should be cheery with the songs of finches, the dusky clucking of hedge hens. On

      8 min read

    • Article

      In Search Of . . .

      Mar 1, 2019

      In Search Of . . .
      7 min read

    • Article

      In Search Of . . .

      Feb 1, 2019

      In Search Of . . .
      7 min read

    • Article

      Spirited Away

      Sep 3, 2022

      Spirited Away
      2 min read

    • Article

      To Save Arrhinsal

      Nov 1, 2021

      Tolin lives on Arrhinsal, an island that floats in the sky two miles above the land below. One day, while hunting in the maze of tunnels that run through the island’s thick hedges, he encounters a girl who, her sword raised, has turned to face a huge

      6 min read

    • Article

      Paper Princess

      Apr 1, 2023

      Paper Princess
      3 min read

    • Article

      Concerning The Future Of Souls

      Mar 19, 2024

      As a toddler she had caused a sensation in her family when she announced she wanted to live in a little hole like the ant. Not an ant, the ant. This might have been misheard. She was an easygoing child, not particularly thoughtful and stubbornly inar

      13 min read

    • Article

      Notes From The Isles

      Apr 14, 2023

      Yet again nemesis has smothered my hubris. Having boasted of my expertise in getting the car up our steep, icy track, I awoke to find myself snowed in, near the top of a glacier, totally cut off from all traffic. A nephew and his wife, who were comin

      4 min read

    • Article

      This Vicious Grace

      Jun 15, 2022

      ▶ RELEASED 28 JUNE 448 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook ▶ Author Emily Thiede ▶ Publisher Hodder & Stoughton Generally speaking, calling someone a window isn’t particularly complimentary. But for Alessa, becoming her island’s “Finestra” is both a ble

      1 min read

    • Article

      10 Literary Witches To Hex Trump

      Mar 24, 2017

      In case you hadn’t heard, witches across America—including Lana Del Rey—are uniting to take down Trump via a binding spell, which calls on the spirits to keep the President from doing harm (it already seems to be working). Covens, communities, and so

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Ties That Bind

      May 8, 2022

      The Ties That Bind
      2 min read

    • Article

      See How They Nun

      Mar 22, 2024

      What are we going to do about global heating, about mass extinction, about our rivers? What ability do we have to change things, now that power lies mostly in the hands of unaccountable corporations and shameless demagogues? Is there even any point i

      2 min read

    • Article

      HEALTH & WELL BEING

      Sep 23, 2022

      ‘I’m not really sure why I’m here, lying in a bin-bag on the side of a hill, but I’m strangely glad that I am,” writes Raynor Winn, part of the way through her latest walking odyssey with her husband, Moth. She won’t be the only one glad. With her pr

      2 min read

    • Article

      An Enchantment Of Lore

      Jan 5, 2022

      Sirens, Selkies and Ghost Ships Dee Dee Chainey & Willow Winsham Batsford 2021 Hb, 192pp, £12.99, ISBN 9781849946599 Wild Gods, World Trees and Werewolves Dee Dee Chainey & Willow Winsham Batsford 2021 Hb, 192pp, £12.99, ISBN 9781849946872 Dee Dee Ch

      4 min read

    • Article

      Hope Springs

      Feb 22, 2021

      The Thin Places in the title of Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s intense memoir-cum-nature book are “places where a veil is lifted away and light streams in”. They are pools of stillness in a “broken, burning and bleeding world”. They are remote havens where t

      2 min read

    • Article

      Ursula K. Le Guin

      Jun 15, 2018

      He was thinking of Lookfar, abandoned long ago, beached on the sands of Selidor. Little of her would be left by now, a plank or two down in the sand maybe, a bit of driftwood on the western sea. As he drifted near sleep he began to remember sailing t

      15 min read

    • Article

      Six Bestiary Poems

      Nov 1, 2020

      The world, is it finite? Pliny the Elderon what he saw and heard, 37 “books” toround that up, early C.E. as heproceeded to be infinite. His Naturalis. His Historia.First bestiary ever in Book 8. Land lifeand sea life and through-the-air and undergrou

      4 min read

    • Article

      Raiders From The Sea

      Sep 1, 2023

      CANNY LIFTED HER head from the swirls of gold and red and put down the brush, stretching her frozen fingers. The sun fell through the scriptorium window in warm panels, but the room was still cold, and she’d been at work on the manuscript in front of

      7 min read

    • Article

      Forfeit

      Jan 1, 2021

      Forfeit
      7 min read

    • Article

      Book Reviews

      Mar 31, 2022

      Kyrie McCauley HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 978-0-0628-8503-6 Tens of thousands of crows invading Auburn, Pennsylvania, is a problem for everyone in town except seventeen-year-old Leighton Barnes. For Leighton, it’s no stranger than her house, whic

      2 min read

    • Article

      Controlled Burn

      Sep 2, 2022

      Controlled Burn
      9 min read

    • Article

      Paradise Or Prison?

      Dec 5, 2021

      Sinister and very believable, this is a brilliantly original psychological thriller. The place and people in it are vividly imagined and the story had me in a vice-like grip right from the beginning. Ana is 18 and has lived in Iluka all her life. A p

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Ferris wheel

      Jan 16, 2022

      The Ferris wheel
      4 min read

    • Article

      Climbing Mount Cameroon

      Nov 18, 2019

      In 1895 Mary Kingsley became the first woman to climb Mount Cameroon. Her apparel was unlikely: long black trailing skirt, tight waist, high collar, a small fur cap, lace-up shoes and a parasol. In every respect she was unusual. With no formal school

      4 min read

    • Article

      Sister Acts

      Oct 23, 2023

      by Charlotte Wood (Allen & Unwin, $36.99) She goes first as a guest, just for five days, seeking respite from unresolved grief after her parents’ deaths. The place she has chosen is the home of a small order of nuns near the remote Australian town wh

      2 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Going Home

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Going Home - Michael Stuer

      Going Home

      Published by Michael Stuer at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 Michael Stuer

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      The leaves crunched and rustled noisily as Aanemoshi, a white mare with ash-gray dapples bore her rider along the leaf blanketed forest floor. The trees' former glory of rich emerald drapery was gone, leaving them naked and exposed. Patches of orange, brown, red, and yellow now littered the ground, creating a kind of natural, colorfully hued quilt. With each stirring of the wind, the pattern of Nature's blanket changed ever so slightly.

      Silently, the heavily cloaked rider guided her mount with only gentle nudges with her knees and light tugs on the reigns through the narrow spaces between the trees. A hawk's screech from high overhead brought the horse and rider to a halt as the latter lifted her eyes to the cloud-filled sky, revealing an elf of remarkable appearance and beauty. Ice blue eyes held the avian fixed in their gaze for a few moments as it soared higher into the chilly air. Though those light colored orbs were remarkable, they were not what truly separated this elf from the rest of the elves across Aldaria. As most of that fae race, she too possessed long, shining gold hair (though its current color was a lime green), a slender build, delicately pointed ears, and sun-bronzed skin. Unique to this elf, however, was her slightly round face, hinting that there was something other than elves in her ancestry.

      To the elves, Tyanne Uer was a bit of an oddity. She was only treated slightly different than others of her kind for almost no other reasons than curiosity and caution. Sometimes, she wondered just how they would react if they knew the truth: that she had only been an elf for a little over sixteen of her thirty-three years. At those moments when she was tempted to reveal what only she and a few others knew, Tyanne always opted to remain silent, knowing that no one else would understand. But complete acceptance by her fellow elves was outweighed by the respect she had earned, though even that was mostly because of the profession that had chosen her.

      Tyanne was a wizardess.

      Of course, there were also those who recognized her family name. Her father and his friends and their allies had been instrumental in organizing thousands of people of almost all of Aldaria's races into a defensive force whose sole purpose was to repel a malignant darkness that gained ground every day. Ultimately, it was the courageous sacrifice of one person that brought victory to the forces of Good and won the battle.

      The Great Battle.

      Tyanne shook her head in amazement. How could those three little words ever fully convey the magnitude of that conflict? Who could grasp the meaning of that struggle that had decided the fate of an unknowable number of worlds and almost countless

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1