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    Quentin the Troll and the Wedding of Doom
    Quentin the Troll and the Wedding of Doom
    Quentin the Troll and the Wedding of Doom
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    Quentin the Troll and the Wedding of Doom

    By Daniel Eness

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    When Quentin discovers four relatives dead on the eve of his son's wedding, the bride missing, and a horde of goblins closing in, those are the least of his problems:

    His wife has put him in charge of tracking down the cake.

    Quentin the Troll and the Wedding of Doom is a short fantasy of monstrous proportions.

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    He already had more than enough trouble on his massive hands. His oldest son’s wedding (to the ugliest girl on Three) was in five days, his wife was pregnant for the fourteenth time in twenty years and his fledgling shipping business was going down the latrine.

    Now, four of Quentin’s cousins lay at his feet, dead. Even by troll standards, it was shaping up to be a bad morning.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDaniel Eness
    Release dateFeb 6, 2012
    ISBN9781466041837
    Quentin the Troll and the Wedding of Doom
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    Daniel Eness

    Daniel Eness writes stories of strange adventure where the hero always wins, except those times when he dies spectacularly in an explosion. He lives in Iowa with his family of six, for whom he writes of the churning seascape of the soul, deep evil and the hope that has overcome them both. His work has appeared in Stupefying Stories, Ideomancer, Diagram and Brain Harvest Magazine, and, in 2012, Eortholic Press will release two novels, a novella and a collection of short adventures.

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      Quentin the Troll and the Wedding of Doom - Daniel Eness

      QUENTIN THE TROLL AND THE WEDDING OF DOOM

      Daniel Eness

      Published by Eortholic Press at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 Daniel Eness

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      Author's Note

      Quentin the Troll and the Wedding of Doom

      He already had more than enough trouble on his massive hands. His oldest son’s wedding (to the ugliest girl on Three) was in five days, his wife was pregnant for the fourteenth time in twenty years and his fledgling shipping business was going down the latrine.

      Now, four of Quentin’s cousins lay at his feet, dead. Even by troll standards, it was shaping up to be a bad morning.

      Two brothers, Fargus and Stupid, were face down. Another cousin lay face up, near the tent opening. That was Fat Len, Quentin’s second cousin on his mother’s side, and, semi-coincidentally, his father’s. The fourth, Vinlu An, was sprawled over the remnants of a wooden stool, a splattering of wild honey slowly dribbling from her fist. Each corpse bore a large, single wound to the torso.

      Quentin squatted low to the ground, stretched his arms in front of him and swept a pile of dust between his palms. In a swift, crude ceremony, he scattered the sand over the bodies. A cloud of the stuff filled the tent. With one last look at Fat Len, Quentin’s favorite, he quit the tent only moments before the deadest of the four began to quiver in the darkness.

      Quentin made his way through the labyrinth of the city-state, determined to, against his better

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