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Reflections

2025 was an eventful and lesson-filled inaugural year for Finch Fries.

Light’s Shadow, my debut novel and first in the Raiders of Light series, released in early December 2024. I had written it feverishly while “newbing” through newborn care. A time when sleepless nights and the blessing of paternity leave prompted me to—at long last—...

Note: Whispers of the Elenmír is a partial manuscript and the main spiritual precursor to the Raiders of Light series and Light's Shadow. Edited, of course. We hope you enjoy it.

Chapter 1 | An Old Friend and a Promise

The man called Cal Linz blinked his tired eyes and set aside the old book he had been reading. His search for guidance had finally ended. He had stood at this crossroads far too long, and having a decision forced on him by now obvious truths had humbled him. Unsatisfied, those...

Originally Written: Sep 23, 2007

Edited: Sep 21, 2025

Morning’s gentle breath nudged the damp, sleeping grass awake and stirred faint ripples in a small duck pond. Oblivious to the wind, a black Bentley pulled up in front of the old café on Jefferson Street. For a moment it lingered in stillness, then the driver’s side door opened, and a grey-haired man emerged. Closing the door, his back fixed in a rigid upright position, he stiffly moved toward the little cabin-like building before him. Each...