A Break In The Balance

Frank Rhoades is at the end of his rope. With no prospects, no family or friends to speak of, and nowhere to live soon, he trips through life in an alcoholic haze.

Until one morning, he has the most vivid, horrifying hallucination. A seven-foot-plus Black Elf in his apartment, complete with muscles and attitude. Through a mix of persuasion and abuse, the hallucination drags him along into a full-blown nightmare: a meeting with the Creator's agent, and a demi-god dragon in human form, and his...