It came from Yaroslav Barsukov

Yaroslav Barsukov’s story “Tower of Mud and Straw I: The Duchy” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 25 September 2020. I saw the novella in a dream. I was my own hero, banished from the capital to a province which sheltered a magical race. An exile that turned out to be something more. Another thing was, I wanted to write a story about architects and artisans. I briefly toyed with the idea of an architect …