Copyright © 2017 by L. L. Ash
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Disclaimer
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Chapter 1
My name is Sam. Samantha Bulliard pronounced (boo-ee-ard) Yeah a lot of people have a hard time with my name. It was always a rough one when I moved up grades and had new teachers. It was like it blew their minds or something.
But now that I’m graduated that didn’t matter anymore. I had time to pursue my interests for the rest of the fall and winter before Dad expected me to get a job or go to college. Oh, yeah. College. I wasn’t looking forward to it. Like it’s not enough to have 13 years of school from kindergarden to highschool. Let’s add another 4-8 more on top of that.
Anyway, long story short, I wasn’t planning on going to college. I hoped to get a good job as a secretary or something and just work my way up. But for now, I was enjoying my summer and fall before I had to gain more adult responsibility and Dad was all for the break.
So I spent more time than normal at my Quarterstaff games. See, Quarterstaff is an English game that used to be played until WWI hit. Players declined to almost non-existent by the time the depression and WWII came around. But there were some people nearby that were still practicing a modern version and I was one of them. The only little hitch was that it was a game for men. No women were allowed to play in this region’s group so I had to be secretive about my sex. I showed up to the games in my padded white fencing suit and mesh helmet already on my head.