This 7,100 word stand-alone tale of adventure, romance, and action was originally included in New York Times bestselling author Mike Stackpole's Chain Story Project. Each of the stories in the series begins with a scene set in The Wanderers' Club in London, where patrons take turns telling stories of their adventures and derring-do. Though the plots and characters of the various tales differ and each adventure is self-contained and independent, every story-teller starts out by referencing the story before his in some fashion before telling his own tale.

Mike Stackpole's character, Rogers, is used with permission.

About the Author:

Best known as the world's top-ranked player of classic role-playing games for the last fifteen years of the last century, Donald J. Bingle is an oft-published author in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, thriller, steampunk, romance, and comedy genres, with eight books (including the Dick Thornby Thriller series—Net Impact, Wet Work, and Flash Drive—Forced Conversion, GREENSWORD, and Frame Drive, plus (with Jean Rabe) The Love-Haight Case Files, Vols. 1 and 2) and more than seventy tales, primarily in DAW themed anthologies and tie-in anthologies.

Many of Don's stories are electronically available, individually or in genre collections, including "Tales of Gamers and Gaming," "Tales of Humorous Horror," "Tales Out of Time," "Grim, Fair e-Tales," "Tales of an Altered Past Powered by Romance, Horror, and Steam," "Not-so-Heroic Fantasy," and "Shadow Realities," as well as various collections in print, ebook, and/or audio, including Father's Day, Crimson Life/Crimson Death, Morse Code Mysteries and Missives, and Morse Code Memories and Musings. Donald J. Bingle has been a member of the Horror Writers Association, International Thriller Writers, the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, and Origins Game Fair Library. For more about on his writing, go to donaldjbingle.com or follow him on social media @donaldjbingle.