The Tonsil Storm by Jan Conradie

5 August is the 1110th anniversary of the Battle of Wodensfield: My TimeTravel videos in Saxon UK (YouTube) reached Episode 60 (Recap,Season2); I will post the actual battle (Episode 75, Series 3) on 5 August to commemmorate; These are speed-reading videos containing brief text with photos or...

Greetings! My OTHER story, about which the debate exploded here in October 2019 regarding Saxon swords and armour, is being published now on Youtube instead, all 100 episodes of it accompanied by my own original music. Here is a summary of the first 35 episodes: Wodensfield (copyrighted) is a...

And that is how Torm has ended up here, at the entrance of the holiest of holy places, with the glimmering royal blue CTA in the room in front of him. This machine has been built around what could best be described as the Icarissa’s tonsil, an apparently useless and enigmatic organ in the throat...

Krog himself, still with Torm at his side, covered the backs of the control unit crew as they fled down, down into the body of the Icarissa. The body of the Icarissa was only partially inhabitable. Centuries earlier man had already discovered these space-travelling giants and realised that...

One unexpected energy pulse and there they were: Two screaming Insect warriors appeared in the control room of the Icarissa, that grand old ship of deep space. So this was the cause of Torm’s premonition of imminent trouble. These were magnificent specimens. Their Insect bodies were armoured...

Krijger and his colleagues stand ready with their hands on their swords. The hairs on Krijger’s powerful back rise. There is a palpable tension in the hall, but then the strange moment passes over. The Bishop continues with a rather insulting sigh of dissatisfaction. He opens the casket held by...

The priest washes Sorm’s hands in perfumed water and instructs the helper to do the same with the bare feet. Then he hangs a long gold-colored shirt over Sorm’s body. Next he hangs a royal blue mantle around Sorm’s shoulders and fastens it with a shiny new leather girdle with a golden buckle...

Khula, son of the Earl of Sean, is the only other nobleman in the room. As a child he was hidden away in an old castle for a few years because he is dark-skinned. Rumors spread quickly about the Earl, his sickly blonde wife and the dark-skinned baby. He lived as a loner until he got to know...

Sorm lies awake for most of this final night. Only now and then does he doze off for a little while. It feels like he is living someone else’s life, as if he doesn’t belong here right now. However, he has worked through the events of this approaching day in his mind so many times that he knows...