The Desolator: A short story

Simon Haynes

May 2018 · Bowman Press

About this eBook

A barbarian, a halfling and a wizard walk into a bar ... 

Join Hurm, Runt and Father Mephistophiles as they struggle to save the hamlet of Yendour from a marauding dragon. High fantasy parody from the author of the Hal Spacejock series.

This humorous fantasy short story contains dark humor, comedy off-screen violence, and no sex.

The characters also feature in my new trilogy, starting with A Portion of Dragon and Chips.

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Ratings and reviews

I have read, re-read, and re-re-read all of the Tòlkein LOTR & Hobbit, as well as The Silmarillion, (then others as Christopher published them as best he could, adhering to his father's wishes). I I read all seven of Lewis' Narnia Series, and many others like Shannara, and Xanth. My point isn't a pedantic rave or some harsh critique. Often you see hints reminiscent of the classics like the above! And this story wasn't! I found this story refreshing and I am starting the series tonight!

this one was cute! i really like Simon haynes. thank you.

Awesome 👍

About the author

Simon Haynes lives in Western Australia, where he divides his time between herding deadly spiders, dodging drop bears, and making up wildly inaccurate sentences like this one.

By day he's an author. By night he's also an author.

He loves wry, dry humour, and his hobbies include daringly inserting the letter U into words where -- in some parts of the world at least -- this simply isn't the done thing.

As for his genre-spanning novels, they include epic fantasy (with robots), scifi comedy (also with robots), middle grade humour (featuring robots AND the wanton use of the letter U), as well as a series of historical mystery novels set in 1870's London. (No, of course there aren't robots in those. He's not completely out of his mind.)

When he's not writing Simon is usually renovating his house, sim-racing online, using twitter (@spacejock), gardening, tweaking his book covers, pondering the meaning of the universe and reading, and if you think it's easy doing all that at the same time you should see what he can do with a mug of coffee, a banana and a large bag of salt.

When he's not making outlandish claims he likes to count how many novels he's written, and how many genres he's written them in. (Lots and too many.)

Finally, if you want to hear Simon reading one of his award-winning stories, you'll find an enticement to join his newsletter here: spacejock.com.au/ML.html