Archives: June2009

• Chapter One

  The boy surveyed his work. Three years of his thirteen crafting, bending, filing, sawing and polishing and the results lay before him like a sleeping dragon. Almost every corner of his father’s library was filled with pipes, pistons, bellows and wires – grapevines and tendrils in a forgotten greenhouse. It was New Year’s Eve, 1916 – 1917 would see the first successful Transmission. Acidic smoke belched from a side-vent as the boy turned handles and frantically pumped footpedals. Some type [...]