Welcome to Bloody Twine Presents #3! BT Presents #3 features The Blood March, a novelette published within Bloody Twine #3.
In this first and original James the Riftwalker story, James is a mercenary who explores dangerous areas where breaches from other universes have opened. These breaches release nightmares from the darkest depths of the void, but they also release treasures of untold value, treasures imbued with amazing magical properties, treasures worth risking death to obtain. In The Blood March, the original first story of James the Riftwalker, James traverses the breach arena, The Blood March, in search of these magical artifacts, braving the untold horrors that lie within.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Blood March
James and the giant breach.
Whenever a breach opened, it would scatter items from other universes along a conical path, and these “artifacts,” no matter how mundane-looking, were always endowed with dimensional energy, making them worth their weight in gold. That’s why the State wanted them, but James wasn’t interested in what the State wanted, nor had he ever been…
Average Read Time: 48m 42s
Imagine walking into an abandoned storage room filled with old newspapers and magazines, all articles stacked in bundles neatly tied with twine, but then you discover other bundles, bundles not so neatly tied, ragged bundles of yellowed and partially-charred paper tied in bloodstained twine.
You see, some stories are meant to educate, and some stories are meant to entertain, but some stories…some stories are simply looking for a victim.
Enjoy.
