The sun beats against his neck. The white arena sand dazzles his eyes. The massed boos and catcalls shake his bones and evil sorcery stirs against him. He is a beast, a thing, given a puny sword and a shield, here to fight for the pleasure of Moloch of Flames, a First Born, and his Nephilim sons, giants each one.
He is Lod, and he is the beast of Elohim, a killer and an outcast. Alone among his enemies, he is surely doomed to die before the chanting crowd of thousands.
Lod wages a brutal war against the sons of angels, the Nephilim. Each tale is of novella length, told by Vaughn Heppner, Writers of the Future winner.