Ethan Eternal Chapter 1 - River of Light

Welcome to Ethan Eternal, a novel by Cyrus Martin. As he explains in the forward, this is a dark story that not everyone will enjoy but might be your cup of tea. One Man Asylum is proud to bring you this story in both written and audio formats. Click the links below and start your journey with Ethan Eternal.

"It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. The entire world seemed to dissolve into a fine mist of luminescent haze and then condensed with the ease of an autumn breeze into a single white line of liquid fire. The sounds of electronic monitors and muttering geniuses blurred with this change until Ethan could only detect a faint pulse of an unknown origin."

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Ethan Eternal Chapter 2 - Two Empty Caskets

"Kevin Hill stood drenched in the icy morning rain as the cold soaked into every part of him. He would not accept company today… not even the meager offering of an umbrella’s protection. He could not. In fact, he could not even stand in the presence of God this day… or hear his Holy words read by a man used to larger congregations. Kevin could not even be at his own wife’s funeral."

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Ethan Eternal Chapter 3 - The Lone Ranger

This is just bullshit man!” a young and anxious police officer shouts to another that might pass as his biological twin. The second officer… Officer Peabody… simultaneously nods to his comrade and expectorates an enormous wad of something brown and suspiciously odorous.

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Ethan Eternal Chapter 4 - Fire and Ice

His son was dead, his wife was dead… and unless a miracle occurred in the next few seconds… he was going to follow. Worse than his own demise was the apparent truth that he was going to be responsible for the death of another person he knew and loved. There was no time left to contemplate or dwell. There was no time to think about anything. There only time enough to scream.

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Ethan Eternal Chapter 5 - The Heart of Darkness

Danny smiled as he glided on air. The swing sang its metallic lullaby… embracing him in arms of wind. He smiled as he watched the tree tops sway in the March breeze. This was his favorite place… and he came here every chance he could. This park was his place of solitude… even if he was not alone.

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Ethan Eternal Chapter 6 - Blue and Grey

Danny sat uncomfortably on a paper sheet as he waited for the doctor to return. He thought for a moment that he could hear his mother screaming down a distant hallway but continued silence raised some doubt. He was about to lay back down on the table when the hum of the florescent lights above unexpectedly vanished and pitch darkness consumed his vision. A roar echoed through the floor and walls. Terror took him. This was not supposed to happen.

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Ethan Eternal Chapter 7 - The Dog Colt

Thunder rolled its heavy drum and marched through the frozen night. Rain fell. A flash of silver light pierced an old broken window. Perry stood there looking out into the darkness and silently watched for a monster. Debra and Kevin had collapsed from exhaustion on an oriental rug from the 50’s topped with dust almost as old. The German shepherd preferred an empty corner. With his back against a solid wall… Colt kept one eye alert.

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Ethan Eternal Chapter 8 - The Night of Treasures

George did not have an umbrella. He refused to even consider the idea. Rain was a pleasure of the world… something bound by no man or God. It was a pure and perfect gift from the earth that so many had never truly embraced or understood. To George, it was to be cherished and savored. The rain at night gave no evidence of where it had come from. It merely was. There was no better time to know the glory of this sweet chill. Night afforded a privacy to indulge in such wonders. It was to be tasted slowly and prolonged… and so he stood at the center of an empty concrete parking lot… delighting in the cold.

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Ethan Eternal Chapter 9 - Once Upon A Time...

"Tell me about Montana.”
Kevin had been nestled comfortably in a heavy sleep so overdue that Debra’s words ripped at his ears as they painfully pulled him into consciousness. Disoriented, he could only stare and blink for a few moments as his wife’s sister stood over him. She was wide awake and from the intensity of her glare… she might have been for some time. At some point, she had awoken with a compulsion to know what had happened in that far away place… what had happened to Amanda and Danny..

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Ethan Eternal Chapter 10 - The Nest of Vipers

About 13 percent of all deaths are caused by cancer. When cells begin to mutate or divide without respect to ordinary limits or invade other tissues they become classified as malignant. A malignant tumor may spread rapidly and lead to severe health deterioration… eventually killing the victim. I use the word “victim” because this malignancy acts not like a disease… but like a mindless killer… consumed by an insatiable thirst for blood and hate. It is so powerless to this lust that it will eventually destroy itself while on this irrational quest for indulgence.

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