FICTION — THE MAGICLAND CHRONICLES

The Dragons of Sierra

Will a new menace alter the conflict between magicians and augmented humans?

Charles Bastille
MagicLand — The Novel
5 min readAug 28, 2022

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It is a time of conflict. A never-ending war between magicians and augmented humans known as The Gath. Now, a new menace threatens both races.

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A menace from the sky, created by the refugees living in the Cylindrical Moon. This is the prologue to a novella (still in progress) that will be part of the MagicLand Chronicles, a set of stories set in the timeline of my debut novel, MagicLand.

Dear Freeland:

I am writing to you in the desperate hope that this ancient pencil on paper somehow survives my journey if something happens to me. I will seal this note in a glass bottle and hope for the best! You already know how I got it to you if it is in your hands.

As you know, I befriended a Gath a year or so ago, and he agrees with you that the beasts we have observed lingering over the mountains do not come from the domain of the animal kingdom as we know it.

He claims they are from the cylindrical moon, of all places, that vast megastructure in the sky where legions of another race are said to be hiding and creating beings far different than any known to earth. I have never…

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MagicLand — The Novel
MagicLand — The Novel

Published in MagicLand — The Novel

Author site for my debut novel, MagicLand, from New York’s Morgan James Publishing

Charles Bastille
Charles Bastille

Written by Charles Bastille

Author of MagicLand & Psalm of Vampires. Join me on my Substack at https://www.ruminato.com/. All stories © 2020-24 by Charles Bastille

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