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    An Honorable Man upon the Mountain (Short Story)
    An Honorable Man upon the Mountain (Short Story)
    An Honorable Man upon the Mountain (Short Story)
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    An Honorable Man upon the Mountain (Short Story)

    By Stephen Measure

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    Tolan must rescue his sisters from the shades who slaughtered his family, but he cannot save them without first finding an honorable man upon the mountain.

    A story from The Unshut World. Part of The Ridge of Earth Collection. (~10000 words)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Measure
    Release dateFeb 21, 2014
    ISBN9781940778129
    An Honorable Man upon the Mountain (Short Story)
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    Stephen Measure

    Stephen Measure is an author of social and political satire, both humorous and dark.

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      An Honorable Man upon the Mountain (Short Story) - Stephen Measure

      An

      Honorable Man

      upon the

      Mountain

      The Ridge of Earth Collection

      STEPHEN MEASURE

      Silver Layer Publications

      Copyright © 2014 by Stephen Measure

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, organizations, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or organizations is entirely coincidental.

      Silver Layer Publications

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      Last Updated June 3, 2017 (front and back matter)

      The shades slaughtered his father before Tolan even realized they had burst into the room, one knife buried in his father’s throat, another in his side. His mother and sisters screamed, but the shades had already leapt to his older brother, burying twisted blades into him as he tried to stand. Tolan’s chair was kicked away from the table by a shade who towered over him, the shade’s black robe seeming darker than night itself. Taller than the others, the shade held a knife pointed at Tolan’s heart and smiled at him with thin colorless lips.

      His oldest sister screamed as a shade yanked her to her feet by her hair. Another shade cut a slit in the middle of her dress and thrust it open, exposing her belly. Tolan needed to rise and protect her, but the tall shade’s blade was so close. A single thrust and all would be over. And so, terrified of the shade’s blade and the shade’s hateful smile, Tolan forgot to not see what he had been taught to not see—and he saw it: the potential for life swirling deep within his sister’s womb. His sister was passed roughly to a fourth shade that stood by the door. Grabbing her arm, the shade held his blade tight against her throat as Tolan’s second sister was hauled to her feet and her stomach examined in the same way. The potential for life swirled within her as well. Then the shades pulled Tolan’s mother to her feet, ripping her away from his father’s side, where she had been wailing. They cut her dress and exposed her stomach as they had done to her daughters. But there was no life swirling deep within, and Tolan knew what was going to happen.

      His mother made the best meat pies and she always gave him extra. They didn’t always have meat and when they had meat they didn’t always have meat pies but when they had meat and when they had meat pies, hers were the best and she always gave him extra because he was the youngest. His brother was the oldest, then another brother who died from the

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