Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 11 The Megrims, is now posted.
In which Princox suffers a dangerous fancy, a bout of low spirits, and a dark memory.
What ails the boy? Lacks he a loyal heart to the collective cooperation rating system? Does he not wish to be democratic, right-thinking, utopian, futuristic?
To defy consensus is to deny science!
Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 10 The Standgale, is now posted.
In which Princox fishes a brisket-beater from the wet, and discovers him alive.
From the look of his beads, the cull is a red-letter man, straight from the hum box of an autem kirk. I thought such goose-cap knee-bending foolery was long ago outlawed?
Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 09 The Ravin, is now posted.
In which Princox is addressed by an eidolon, is dragooned, and comes suddenly into pelf.
Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 08 The Chartel, is now posted.
In which Princox displays his adroit understanding of the fairer sex, declines to comprehend or retain his paramour; declines an unspoken offer by his rival; and declines to remain honestly unemployed.
Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 07 The Threaping, is now posted.
In which Princox makes a passionate confession, but somehow entangles himself in an altercation. The girl voices a willfulness unexpected in one of tender years and gentler sex.
What strange word from Earth has rendered her so nonconformist? Will she not heed correct thought?
And how can Earth still send word? Earth died! So solemn predictions, certain as the return of lunar eclipses, in generations past foretold!
Correct thought cannot be questioned!
Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 06 The Humdudgeon, is now posted.
In which Princox is gives tongue to an unnecessary outcry, bewailing an affliction allegedly affecting all mankind, as the ravishing and ravenhaired damsel gives her diagnosis for this imaginary complaint.
Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 05 The Tryst, is now posted.
In which Princox is smitten, or shams he is, and ventures to maund and angle his way into the good graces of a demure and comely pullet.
Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 04 The Fescennine, is now posted.
In which Princox seeks out a nearby apiary, cantillates a jocular but scurrilous ditty to his doxy as he trudges, and is answered piquantly in verse.
Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 03 The Ferule, is now posted.
In which Princox discovers the true meaning of freedom, choice, necessity, and the need for corporal deterrence to urge conformity, particularly among the gentle sex of tender age.
Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 02 The Lavandiere, is now posted.
In which Princox confronts an antiquated mort washing grotty rags of stain, who baffles him with eerie palaver. An image of Syren, hooded and masked, but graceful of limb as a birch tree swaying, now leads him to the widdershins.
Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 01 The Rustics, is now posted.
In which Piter Princox, scalawag, but acting as a proctor of the Perfection of Man, seeking scofflaws, has departed the warrens for rustic zones. He is without his snaphance but toting his ferule. It is reveille, and the terminator sweeps from deiseil to widdershins. There are older words for these things, mostly forgotten.
Something more weighty has been forgotten as well.
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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 105 Found on the Last Continent, is now posted.
Episode 105 EPILOGUE: Found on the Last Continent
It is farewell.
What happens hereafter to Colonel Lost, his bride he hopes to wed, the family he hopes to father, the commonwealth he hopes to found, the aircraft company he hopes to build, the garden he hopes to plant, or the heaven he hopes to reach, is not recorded in any posthistorical record.
With the shutting of the Gate of Eternity, and all power of time travel abolished, no whisper will ever reach us of what fate intends. His future, like our own, will remain unknown until the day it comes to pass.
Which is as it is meant to be.
Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 104 The Ghosts of the Future, is now posted.
Episode 104 The Ghosts of the Future
The penultimate episode!
When the Gate of Eternity opens, it will mean either utter failure for Colonel Lost, or else a victory so complete, that no battle like this need ever be fought again.
But what joy is there in triumph, or what sorrow in defeat, in the war for the fate of all the world and infinite time together, if a man cannot win the hand of his beloved?
And can he win, or should he, when his rival for this hand is his dearest friend?
The paradox of time travel is as nothing compared to the paradox of love!
Next week is the epilogue, dear readers, and our last we shall ever know of Colonel Lost.
Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 103 The Curse of Endless Life, is now posted.
Episode 103 The Curse of Endless Life
The enemy makes a final, devastating attempt to undo all that has been accomplished. Colonel Lost, his best friend, and his true love, discover themselves trapped in a terrible time paradox, and a love triangle. One of them must sacrifice himself for the others, and for all mankind. Which is it to be?
This is the antepenultimate episode.
Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 102 The Tesseract of Time, is now posted.
Episode 102 The Tesseract of Time
Colonel Lost discovers the truth about Son of the Wind; learns the secret of the Tesseract; and is offered with the kingdoms of the world, and the powers of a god. At the last minute, the last second, the Watchers make a desperate final attempt to bring allies, living beings or otherwise, from a far eon into the present. A tall figure steps forth form the time portal.
The epic concludes next month!
