Margins
2022
First Published
4.57
Average Rating
247
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What do you do after surviving a suicide mission? Do your best to get home in one piece, naturally. Things aren't going to be that easy for the Bad Badgers. There are miles to go, and they’re on foot with their prize in tow and an army of undead at their heels. Not exactly an easy stroll toward the line on the map that marks safety. Safety is a rare commodity for all sides in the Vale. Unnamed ancient horrors and secrets best left buried lie ahead…and perhaps closer than the dirty dozen imagined. Our ragtag bunch of dwarves soon learn that there's more than just the enemy at their backs to worry about. The test that shakes them is far deeper and much more personal. As the Bad Badgers’ honor and mettle are tested by the trials and travails of war, how far is too far? And can they ever come back if they cross the line?

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Authors

Aaron D. Schneider
Aaron D. Schneider
Author · 15 books

Aaron was born to parents who taught him two very important things: truth matters and imagination is not a crime. Our protagonist has spent the rest of his life trying to live out those two maxims, much to the chagrin of every unfortunate around him (progenitors included). As such, by age six or seven, he was writing stories about a dark, reptilian avenger who brought final, painful justice to the guilty- with unsettling illustrations to boot. His beloved and benighted parents realized that budding sociopathy would simply not do, and so they began introducing him to tales of great and good heroes. First the account of a certain carpenter, then a hairy-footed burglar, then a savior lion, and after that point our protagonist was plunging face first and arms out into a world of heroism both real and imagined. While far from a hero himself, he has endeavored to try and capture that same bowed but unbroken spirit that dwells in a dark and ugly world, because that as far as he can tell is what makes it all worth while. Along this rambling, dreaming way he managed to find a woman he could bamboozle into loving him, and then even have children with, Lord have mercy on them all. Now Aaron has managed to cram no few exciting jobs and hair-raising experiences into his life so far, and God help him, he hopes for many more. It is these that drive his captured glimpses of something epic. If you have the time you should pull up a chair, grab a beer, light a pipe, or whatever your pre-literary consumption ritual may be and give them a look. It's been said they are truly monstrous, but as any true hero knows, monsters often guard treasure.

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