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Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 20 The Creance, is now posted.

Episode 20: The Creance

In which Princox sees what is beyond the world, kills a tyrant, and brings the tale of these great events to an end. 

Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 19 The Quelling, is now posted.

Episode 19: The Quelling

In which Princox, out of twig as a kettle, finds the Captain to be a gull bubble. Princox rooks him, poking a barking iron into his flabby bumfiddle, even with the captain’s beadles, bailiffs and becks all about. That is one dimber sharper! 

This is our penultimate episode. Keep your eager eyes in this space for news next week of what rip-roaring tale of outer space adventure awaits us in times to come!

Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 18 The Query, is now posted.

Episode 18: The Query

In which aged Iatro reveals the sad truth behind the empty promises of the Futurians of his day and age, and also, meseemeth, dear reader, your own. 

Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 17 The Shriving, is now posted.

Episode 17: The Shriving

In which Princox partakes of a mystery, the lore of Saint Isidore is made manifest, and old paradoxes are resolved. 

Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 16 The Snaphance, is now posted.

Episode 16: The Snaphance

In which Princox arms himself. Things are not always as first they seem.  

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Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 15 The Predicant, is now posted.

Episode 15: The Predicant

In which Princox hears a mystery and resolves a mystery.   

Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 14 The Ballaragg, is now posted.

Episode 14: The Ballaragg

Those who gaze upon the heavens’ lights are strangely changed.

In which Princox is scolded and denounced as a proditor, but perhaps he has a hidden mistigris. 

Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 13 The Apparitor, is now posted.

Episode 13: The Apparitor

In which Princox palavers with kernes, and plies his sleights on them.

Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 12 The Grimoire, is now posted.

Episode 12: The Grimoire

In which Princox stands in the rain, and debates whether to leave his cataian life behind, but a strange light comes into his eyes when he contemplates the jazerant and wings of the Iatros’ levitation gear lying in the grass before him.   

Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 11 The Megrims, is now posted.

Episode 11: The Megrims

In which Princox suffers a dangerous fancy, a bout of low spirits, and a dark memory. 

What ails the boy? Lacks he a loyal heart to the collective cooperation rating system? Does he not wish to be democratic, right-thinking, utopian, futuristic? 

To defy consensus is to deny science! 

Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 10 The Standgale, is now posted.

Episode 10: The Standgale

In which Princox fishes a brisket-beater from the wet, and discovers him alive.

From the look of his beads, the cull is a red-letter man, straight from the hum box of an autem kirk. I thought such goose-cap knee-bending foolery was long ago outlawed?  

Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 09 The Ravin, is now posted.

Episode 09: The Ravin

In which Princox is addressed by an eidolon, is dragooned, and comes suddenly into pelf.

Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 08 The Chartel, is now posted.

Episode 08: The Chartel

In which Princox displays his adroit understanding of the fairer sex, declines to comprehend or retain his paramour; declines an unspoken offer by his rival; and declines to remain honestly unemployed.

Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 07 The Threaping, is now posted.

Episode 07: The Threaping

In which Princox makes a passionate confession, but somehow entangles himself in an altercation. The girl voices a willfulness unexpected in one of tender years and gentler sex. 

What strange word from Earth has rendered her so nonconformist? Will she not heed correct thought?

And how can Earth still send word? Earth died! So solemn predictions, certain as the return of lunar eclipses, in generations past foretold!

Correct thought cannot be questioned!

Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 06 The Humdudgeon, is now posted.

Episode 06: The Humdudgeon

In which Princox is gives tongue to an unnecessary outcry, bewailing an affliction allegedly affecting all mankind, as the ravishing and ravenhaired damsel gives her diagnosis for this imaginary complaint.