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Chapter Fifty: Warrior

Happy Solstice from the Stone Age

What He Wrote

Chapter Forty-Nine: Apprentice

Metaphors are not microaggressions

Faded From the Winter

Chapter Forty-Eight: Sacrifice

Where You Gonna Go

Chapter Forty-Seven: Invalid

From the Greatest Generation to the Ungrateful Generation

Your Protector

Chapter Forty-Six: Fallen

Strife

Out of the Black

Chapter Forty-Five: Foes

The Werewolf: Misunderstood monster

The Enemy

Chapter Forty-Four: Plot

Fall

Chapter Forty-Three: Shepherds

Hartfell Spa

Years Gone By

Chapter Forty-Two: Fate

Block Quotes and Pull Quotes

I'm So Afraid

Chapter Forty-One: Marsh

Untasted

Night After Night

A World Without Columbus?

Chapter Forty: Hunt

The Clog

Hadrian's Wall Path: Part Four

The Jeweller's Hands

Chapter Thirty-Nine: Bride

Summer's End

Cicada Quartet

Silver Dagger

Chapter Thirty-Eight: Wheel

Wasted Grace

What responsibility do writers have to past people and cultures?

Tum Bin Shyam

Chapter Thirty-Seven: Wish

That’s just, like, your opinion, man

Bugeye Jim

Chapter Thirty-Six: Warm

Wolf at the Door

Hadrian's Wall Path: Detour

The Captain and the Hourglass

Chapter Thirty-Five: Storm

The Sacred Disease

How To Disappear Completely

Chapter Thirty-Four: Ruthless

A Writing Book to Skip

Chapter Thirty-Three: Reavers

The Mermaid

Delicate men spring from delicate countries

The Quiet Man

Chapter Thirty-Two: Rathagos

Remains

Chapter Thirty-One: Vazarka

Hadrian's Wall Path: Part Three

Chapter Thirty: Gutless

This is not art.

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Sacrilege

Rex

Anacharsis, Barbarian Philosopher

Remembering a Beginning

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Blood

Hadrian's Wall Path: Part Two

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Flesh

Antío, Apóllon

Why Publication Credits Shouldn't Matter To Agents

Chapter Twenty-Six: Priestess

The Great Amazon Breast Question

Raven

Chapter Twenty-Five: Arrow

Taurica, last refuge of the Cimmerians

Chapter Twenty-Four: Scalp

Chapter Twenty-Three: Battle

Hadrian's Wall Path: Part One

Chapter Twenty-Two: Ticks

Character Names

Chapter Twenty-One: Karevan

Stirling Castle and Its Guardians

Chapter Twenty: Eye

We can never go back

Chapter Nineteen: Court

Machrie Moor Stone Circles

Chapter Eighteen: Midsummer

My Top Books on Writing, Part 2

Chapter Seventeen: Hamazon

When songs were like prayers

Isle of Arran, back in the day...

Favorite Writing Tool?

Chapter Sixteen: Vigil

The Present

Carnasserie Castle

The Wasteland, the Wounded King, and the Grail Quest

Chapter Fifteen: Vision

Vanity

Iceland

Cut Bait

Chapter Fourteen: Traps

Pragmatism

Poulnabrone Dolmen

Write the Book You've Always Wanted to Read

Tristan

Chapter Thirteen: Trial

Rosscoff

Leuke, Island of Heroes

Chapter Twelve: Wilds

Rosslare Harbor

Chapter Eleven: Maneaters

Borysthenes, Underworld River

Chapter Ten: Swords

The Ancient Geography of Ukraine

Chapter Nine: Horse

My Top Five Books on Craft

Chapter Eight: Lessons

Between Magic and Science

Chapter Seven: Girl

Literary Humility

Chapter Six: Marches

The Durability of Stories

Chapter Five: Bonfire

Parrhesia

Ovid Among the Barbarians

On Birds and Trees and Fire

Snowden's Jig

Chapter Four: Feast

Did Bronze Age Men Have a Beef With Mares?

Chapter Three: Initiation

Mad Honey

Chapter Two: Arrival

Ossetian Shamans

Chapter One: Gift

The Hills of Glenorchy

Herodotus

Old Thiess, A Livonian Werewolf

Epigraph

Title Page

Map

Of Wind and Wolves

Contents

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