"A Hole in the World," the latest installment of the serialized novel, The Kaslo Chronicles, is now available for a free read at Lightspeed Magazine's site.

Magic now rules the universe and hardboiled confidential operative Erm Kaslo, henchman to the proto-wizard Diomedo Obron, returns from a mission to the underworld to find that a flood of strange creatures have carried off the survivors of civilization’s collapse who had taken shelter at Obron’s castle.

You can read the preceding chapters in Lightspeed's archives.