by Guy Riessen
Sarah started at the sudden change in her friend. “Oh my god, Mary. Are you OK? What is it?” Sarah took a step back from the table, her body unconsciously shifting into a combat stance as she looked around the room for anything that might cause Mary to react that way.
Mary looked left then right along the line of artifacts—the 3D copied dagger, sheaves of parchment, a small statuette, the iwisa, and the rod from the Sobek temple. She swallowed hard, and looked hard at Sarah over the top of her glasses. Her gaze was cold, steely.
“Sarah. Except for the stone Iwisa and the printed dagger, none of these here artifacts are real.”
“What!?”
Mary trailed her hand down the line, touching each in turn. As she did, each object shimmered momentarily then changed into old bits of sheet metal, sticks, newspaper and lumps of clay. Mary’s true-sight allowed her to see through magically created deceptions, and when she touched illusions it breaks the spell for everyone.
“Illusions,” she said, “If there were ever any artifacts other than the iwisa ... they’re gone.”
They both turned their heads and stared at the spot where the gate had been. The red and green lights of the radiation kit, flickered on the damp earthen walls, as it stitched the Veil tear closed.
THE END
THANKS FOR READING Piercing the Veil. If you enjoyed it, it would be totally badass, man, if you could help other people find the book by leaving a review on Amazon.
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Retribution: A Short Novel of Psychological Horror
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Death in the Sunset: A Modern Cthulhu Mythos Short Story
The Hunger: A Western Steampunk Horror Short Story
Fruiting Bodies: A Horror Short Story
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
GUY RIESSEN IS AN AMERICAN author of contemporary dark fiction spanning the horror, science fiction and crime genres. Born in South Dakota, he grew up in the Southern California beach town of Huntington Beach. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, graduated with a degree in English from UC Berkeley, and has been living in the wild lands north of San Francisco ever since. After nearly two decades of creating artwork for the visual effects, he returned to his first passion: writing dark speculative fiction.
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