Salamanders of the Silk Road

by Christopher Smith

Overview

Prester John is a legend. He's a relic of medieval folklore, a character from a series of garbled tales that span eras and continents like an epic game of telephone. He inhabits a world stuffed full of Cyclopes and malevolent rivers, rocs and gryphons and sciapods and salamanders. Now, he's an unemployed surreal estate agent headed down to a mildew-infested beach house off the coast of Florida, where he can brood over his past and seek a way out of his endless existence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781941360095
Publisher:	Lanternfish Press
Publication date:	10/04/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	338
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Christopher Smith was born on the blood-red clay of North Alabama and raised on the concrete sprawl of South Jersey. He has a master's degree in English from Auburn University, where he met his future wife, Kate, at the college newspaper. Smith lives in Clarksville, TN, where he works as an editor at The Tennessean. This is his first novel.

Table of Contents

1. Son of All Men, c. 200 A.D. 2. Friday Afternoon: The Sentience of Waves 3. A Scar for Gjona-Ja, c. 210 A.D. 4. Friday Evening: Sunset 5. The Squealing Boar, c. 210 A.D. 6. Friday Night: The Funeral of Beatrice John 7. Red Plumes of Hot Silk, c. 215 A.D. 8. Saturday Morning: Hell 9. The Boar Hunt, c. 280 A.D. 10. Saturday Afternoon: What It Takes to Remove Slate Mildew from the Inside of a Door Jamb 11. Throwing the Horse Whip, c. 500 A.D. 12. Saturday Afternoon, Drifting into Evening: Correspondence 13. That Which Is Not Manas, c. 520-527 A.D. 14. Saturday Night: Dinner with the Gogs 15. The Color of Screams, 527-528 A.D. 16. Sunday Morning: The Cup of Salvation 17. The Balsam Palace, 527-613 A.D. 18. Sunday Morning, Part II, But Mostly Sunday Afternoon: The Rise and Fall of Sam Bruckheim 19. Sarcalogos Rex, 615-1136 A.D. 20. Sunday Evening: Misfire 21. The Bishops' Crusade, 1138 A.D. 22. Monday Morning: Notes 23. Tapestry of the World, 1143 A.D. 24. Monday Afternoon: The Crab Festival 25. Entering Oblivion, 1144 A.D. 26. Monday Evening: Shadow Play 27. A Time for Being, 1144-1934 A.D. 28. Monday Night: A Scar for Prester John