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    Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Sorceress
    Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Sorceress
    Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Sorceress
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    Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Sorceress

    By Wesley Allison

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    Eaglethorpe Buxton, famed adventurer and story-teller is back, this time to put on a play about a sorceress. When the sorceress, subject of his play arrives with fire in her eyes, Eaglethorpe must pretend to be his good friend Ellwood. Will he pull off this charade and survive? And what happens when the real Ellwood shows up? One can never tell, especially when Eaglethorpe tells the story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWesley Allison
    Release dateOct 7, 2009
    ISBN9781452306476
    Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Sorceress
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    Wesley Allison

    At the age of nine, Wesley Allison discovered a love of reading in an old box of Tom Swift Jr. books. He graduated to John Carter and Tarzan and retains a fondness the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs to this day. From there, it was Heinlein and Bradbury, C.S. Lewis and C.S. Forester, many, many others, and finally Richard Adam’s Shardik and Watership Down. He started writing his own stories as he worked his way through college. Today Wes is the author of more than thirty science-fiction and fantasy books, including the popular His Robot Girlfriend. He has taught English and American History for the past 29 years in Southern Nevada where he lives with his lovely wife Victoria, and his two grown children Rebecca and John.For more information about the author and upcoming books, visit http://wesleyallison.com.Books by Wesley Allison:Princess of AmatharHis Robot GirlfriendHis Robot WifeHis Robot Wife: Patience is a VirtueHis Robot Girlfriend: CharityHis Robot Wife: A Great Deal of PatienceHis Robot Wife: Patience Under FireEaglethorpe Buxton and the Elven PrincessEaglethorpe Buxton and the SorceressThe Many Adventures of Eaglethorpe BuxtonEaglethorpe Buxton and... Something about Frost GiantsThe Sorceress and the Dragon 0: BrechalonThe Sorceress and the Dragon Book 1: The Voyage of the MinotaurThe Sorceress and the Dragon Book 2: The Dark and Forbidding LandThe Sorceress and the Dragon Book 3: The Drache GirlThe Sorceress and the Dragon Book 4: The Young SorceressThe Sorceress and the Dragon Book 5: The Two DragonsThe Sorceress and the Dragon Book 6: The Sorceress and her LoversThe Sorceress and the Dragon Book 7: The Price of MagicThe Sorceress and the Dragon Book 8: A Plague of WizardsThe Sorceress and the Dragon Book 9: The Dragon's ChoiceThe Sorceress and the Dragon Book 10: For King and CountryKanana: The Jungle GirlTesla’s StepdaughtersWomen of PowerBlood TradeNova DancerThe Destroyer ReturnsAstrid Maxxim and her Amazing HoverbikeAstrid Maxxim and her Undersea DomeAstrid Maxxim and the Antarctic ExpeditionAstrid Maxxim and her Hypersonic Space PlaneAstrid Maxxim and the Electric Racecar ChallengeAstrid Maxxim and the Mystery of Dolphin IslandAstrid Maxxim and her High-Rise Air Purifier

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      Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Sorceress - Wesley Allison

      Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Sorceress

      By Wesley Allison

      Copyright © 2009 by Wesley M. Allison

      All rights reserved.

      This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters to actual people, living or dead is purely coincidental.

      The Ideal Magic was originally copyright © 1996 by Wesley Allison, and was performed that year by the Brown Junior High School Thespians.

      Permission is hereby given to any school theater organizations to perform this play without payment.

      Cover art: © 2009 Dmitry Naumov | Dreamstime.com

      Additional cover art by: Sade

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      Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Sorceress

      By Wesley Allison

      For William Shakespeare

      The greatest writer of all time

      And any conspiracy theorists who think that he is not responsible for his own works should be dragged out into the street and be beaten like dogs.

      Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Sorceress

      (As Told by Eaglethorpe Buxton)

      (And including in its entirety, The Ideal Magic, a play in one act by Eaglethorpe Buxton)

      By Wesley Allison

      Chapter One: Wherein I encounter the sorceress for the first time.

      Antriador is quite a beautiful city. Sitting on the coast of South Lyrria, which is to say the southern coast of that land that used to be the Kingdom of Lyrria but is now a collection of highly competitive city-states, beside azure ocean waves, surrounded by olive trees and vineyards, it is one of the most delightful spots in the world. More important to me was its reputation as a center of the arts, for I am famed adventurer and story-teller Eaglethorpe Buxton. After having held-up all winter at an Inn in Brest, which is to say the country up north, writing a play-- a most wonderful play, if I do say so myself, I had come south to Lyrria to produce it. Antriador boasts some sixty playhouses, so I was able to find one that was appropriate, which is to say tasteful enough and yet inexpensive enough for me to lease.

      Opening night was wonderful. The playhouse was packed, the upper levels with nobles and wealthy merchants along with their richly dressed wives or their scantily clad mistresses, or sometimes both, and the lower house thronging with commoners who paid two pennies for standing room. My play was a success. Of course, there was never any doubt about that. The actors all did their jobs well. The audience laughed in the right places, sighed in the right places, and wept for joy in the right place for it was after all, a comedy. The Ideal Magic was going to secure the fame of Eaglethorpe Buxton, which is to say myself, and make me rich at the same time.

      When the stage lights had gone out, and the audience had left the theater, and the stage hands were putting away the sets, I walked down the street to the Singing Siren for a pint. It was very late and most of the patrons had retired, which is to say gone home if they were locals or gone to their rooms on the second or third floor if they had taken rooms, but the Siren stays open all night. That is not to say that it is a noted hot spot. The Fairy Font, or the Reclining Dog, or even the Wicked Wench are much livelier in the late hours. But the Siren does stay open all night. This particular night, there were one or two people lurking in the shadows-- doxies and cutpurses who had finished their evening’s employment mostly. I didn’t know the barkeep, which is not surprising, considering the turnover at such establishments. I ordered a tankard of ale and took a seat in the center of the room.

      Suddenly the door burst open and a woman strode into the tavern. She was striking. Tall. Blonde. Flashing blue eyes. They were flashing-- literally flashing, which is really not normal at all. Of course if her eyes hadn’t been flashing, I wouldn’t have noticed them. There was all that bare skin to distract me. She wore a leather outfit that was more of a harness that an article of clothing. The lower portion was a sort of loose leather skirt made of strips of material which, though hanging down almost to her ankles, exposed most of her legs when she moved. The upper portion was little more than pair of suspenders and two small leather cups.

      Which of you low-lives is Eaglethorpe Buxton? she snarled.

      I stood up and stepped toward her, at this point still more aware of all the bare skin than either the flashing eyes or the glowing wand in her hand.

      What would you have with him, my lovely lady? I asked.

      I am Myolaena Maetar, and I’m going to skin him alive! she hissed through clenched teeth.

      I, um, oh. Well, he was here a minute ago, said I. You just missed him.

      You are not him? She pointed the wand at me, its violet halo hanging just below my nose.

      Allow me to introduce myself, said I. I am Ellwood Cyrene, hero and adventurer.

      I had been forced by the situation to

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