I’ve been having a great conversation with one of my readers, Aardvark8, who offered some sharp and thoughtful feedback on Mazeheart. As a result, I’ve made a few updates to the story—most notably, it now opens with a short prologue from the maze’s point of view.
This addition makes the maze’s sentience explicit from the beginning, grounding the story’s magic and giving the maze its due as a character in its own right. It’s a big improvement over the original version, which left that connection more ambiguous.
“I am not hedge. I am not wall. I am passage, trial, mouth. I open for the worthy. I bite the careless. I crave the ones who hesitate.”
If you’ve already read it, this version adds new depth. If you haven’t, now’s the perfect time to get lost.
Eric