The Ant King: A California Fairy Tale

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Copyright (c) 2001 Benjamin Rosenbaum. Initially distributed in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 2001. Authorized under a Creative Commons License.

Book Excerpt

ist’s PC on the fifth floor and played them around evening time, avoiding the safety officers. He flew down to visit Vampire a great deal, and stayed away from Pringles and his office totally.

“I’m on level 5,” he stated, “and I can’t move beyond the Roach.”

“You’ve actually got the enchantment blade?” said Vampire, not turning upward.

“No, I lost that to the Troll.”

“You don’t need to go to the Troll,” said Vampire, who never played computer games however read the computer game newsgroups strictly. “You can cross the Dread Bridge.”