Wand Smoke: Tales from the Labyrinth: Demons

By MarQuese Liddle

A man may outrun his Demons, but never the desert. Cursed wanderer Runs-in-the-Sun flees his own Demon-possessed shadow, hunted by regret and weighed down with the lives of three Spirit-scarred sisters.

In the sun-scorched vastness of the Skr ling Steppe, where shadows cast long and treacherous, a cursed wanderer called Runs-in-the-Sun flees his shade now possessed by a Demon Spirit.

Once a dreamer who wished an oasis for his village, his ambition unleashed a cataclysm that reduced his home to dust and his body to a prickly, poisonous cactus. Pursued by his past and haunted by Demons, he races across the desert, his only solace the bitter fruit that grows from his own flesh-that is until he stumbles upon a slave cart carrying three Spirit-scarred sisters.

Will his relentless sprint outpace the Demons, or will his shadow at last catch up with him and the three sister he seeks to rescue?

Descend into Demons, a dark fantasy novella of sacrifice, courage, and redemption in the spirit of Jack Vance's Tales of the Dying Earth, told with the poetic gravity of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FBL9XD1G
• ISBN13: 9798286055944
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 8.0"