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At the end of the Second World War, Captain Arthur King leads a covert strike deep inside Nazi territory—a mission that unravels in ways no training could prepare him for. Injured and evacuated to England, King wakes in a military hospital with his sight gone… yet something else stirring behind the darkness.

As doctors search for answers, King...

April 1945.

As the Third Reich crumbles, a covert Allied team is sent deep into the Thuringian mountains on a mission that doesn’t officially exist. Their orders: infiltrate a medieval castle seized by the SS and recover a relic hidden within its ancient vaults — an artefact whispered to defy reason.

Captain Arthur King, a soldier turned...

At the end of the Second World War, Captain Arthur King leads a covert strike deep inside Nazi territory—a mission that unravels in ways no training could prepare him for. Injured and evacuated to England, King wakes in a military hospital with his sight gone… yet something else stirring behind the darkness.

As doctors search for answers, King...

King in the Dark Part 2: Swan’s Song

Washington, D.C., summer 1945. The war in Europe is won, but for Captain Arthur Raphael King, the real battle has only just begun.

Blinded by an explosion in a Thuringian castle, King now sees what others cannot — spectral auras, echoes of the past, and the slow uncoiling of secrets buried beneath the capital’s...

In 1639, behind the walls of a secluded manor, twenty-one women give birth beneath the gaze of a vampire duke and by the best science the age can devise. Eleven of the children are human.

The rest are chimera—awake, when the ancient ones must sleep.

This is the story of the one who survives, the boy they name Jack, dead for seven minutes and...

Chronicles of Erock Series Summary

The "Chronicles of Erock" series by C J Charles weaves an epic fantasy saga in a richly detailed world of ancient prophecies, mystical creatures, and intense rivalries. Centred on the fortified city of Erock and the broader Lands of Men, the series comprises two books: Dragons' Shadows (prequel) and Dragons...

Dragons Unleashed

Erock, an antediluvian city founded by a legendary immortal, becomes the home of twins; one’s destiny is to be Erock’s King, and the other is to oppose all his brother does

An ambitious political Priesthood reveres a sacred sword called the Kereb, attributed to the all-powerful Creator. A Prophetess foretells that the giants,...

An anthology of “flash fiction” stories. Taken from an ongoing project. First published online incrementally over 2023-24. Presented in chronological order. Each story in this anthology begins with a dream I had while asleep, taken from my daily dream journal.

In March 2023, I started writing and posting short stories of around 600 words in...

“Short Days, Shorter Stories” is an ongoing anthology of “flash fiction” stories collected from my ongoing project, arranged in chronological order, and collated into a volume for publication.

This is Volume 2.

Each story begins with a dream I had while asleep, taken from my daily dream journal.
Some of these stories closely follow the inspiring...

Dragons Unleashed

Erock, an antediluvian city founded by a legendary immortal, becomes the home of twins; one’s destiny is to be Erock’s King, and the other is to oppose all his brother does

An ambitious political Priesthood reveres a sacred sword called the Kereb, attributed to the all-powerful Creator. A Prophetess foretells that the giants,...