Enlightenment

by Bruce Golden

Forced to leave his home, a boy learns magic from a mysterious traveling old man.

When a boy's family is killed, and his home destroyed by marauders, he begins a journey with a traveling old man.

As time and distance takes him further from his home, the boy strives to learn everything he can from the old man before he dies.

What will he do if the old man dies, despite his best efforts?

42 pages, Paperback

Published January 5, 2024

About the author

Novelist, journalist, satirist, Bruce Golden's short stories have been published more than 130 times across 20 countries and in 30 anthologies. Asimov's Science Fiction described his second book, "If Mickey Spillane had collaborated with both Frederik Pohl and Philip K. Dick, he might have produced Bruce Golden's Better Than Chocolate." The same reviewer said of his novel Evergreen, "If you can imagine Ursula Le Guin channeling H. Rider Haggard, you'll have the barest conception of this stirring book, which centers around a mysterious artifact and the people in its thrall. Reminiscent of the work of Robert Silverberg, this planetary romance will introduce lucky readers to a world both magical and spooky, yet ultimately as tangible as your own backyard.” His Dancing with the Velvet Lizard, with 33 stories, is one of the largest collections of speculative fiction ever published. His latest novel, Red Sky, Blue Moon, follows Vikings and Native American Sioux when they're transported to another world by aliens. http://goldentales.tripod.com