Sneak Preview Of Mars Rising

Excerpt from Mars Rising available from Kasma Magazine

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Canticle of Marineris

Second Augury

Furies tear asunder the realm,

The lords of terra firma,

Gather to spawn their pose,

Against the Almighty’s ordained.

Break the binds and throw off the chains,

Adorned on Mars laughs and scoffs,

Then reproaches in anger,

And horrifies with wrath.

Convene a kingdom in the valley of Mars,

Proclaims the voice of God.

Son becomes Father and inherits the realm,

And the worlds in its possession.

He rules with a thistle scepter,

And crushes all into cinders.

Forewarned are you and your brothers,

Praise the curtain rising,

Lest you provoke a terrible fury,

And are destroyed along paths laid.

“The brighter the light of a civilization, the sooner it must burn away

so another can rise from its ashes.”

--Ancient Proverb

Prologue

The Sovereignty had endured for a millennium. Many believed it would survive for the next thousand years. The three planets, Terra, Mars and Venus, their colonized satellites and other outposts of humanity in our solar system composed the Sovereignty. Long ago, the Sovereignty had tightly bound together the human race under the auspices of a single state.

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