Father Edmund Steele
A character sketch of the Reverend Mr. Steele, who appeared in The Prospero Cipher and will have a considerable part in Watchmen for the Morning. Edmund Makepeace Steele (his mother was very fond of Vanity Fair, the novel, not the magazine) was born in Tuleea, Alabama in 1918. A small town in a rural county [...]
Prospero Cipher: Prologue
Prologue
September 1966
GODWALKS MOUNTAIN
The highway wound along the flanks of a deep gorge, glints of a small creek visible at the bottom, through the dense growth of rhododendron and mountain laurel. Broken sandstone bluffs hung over the road on the other side. The weight of the midday sun had softened the tar in the roadway, making [...]
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