A sample of the first chapter of James Vigor's science fiction novel, The Reality Exchange.

This is a handout I wrote for the players of my Dungeons & Dragons campaign. It is a historical account of a paladin from an age long past, who became a folk hero celebrated in songs. A truly ancient leather-bound book. It is large but not remarkably thick. The pages are rough and have somewhat stiffened with age. Much of the ink has faded and whole sections are missing, but a surprising amount remains legible. It appears the title was once embroidered on the cover, but the t

There was a spider on the ceiling. The boy didn’t know when it got there, huddled in the corner between two walls of his living room. He just looked up one day and there it was. It wasn’t a big spider. All balled up like this, it must have been smaller than his fingertip, he guessed. He didn’t dare get close enough to check. He didn’t like spiders, creepy little things that they are, and he certainly didn’t like them being so close. He would always glance at them as they ling