Why are we still here? Just to suffer?” is a question asked by many these days. And though we may ask it in jest at times, playing at yet another absurdity of modern life, its sentiment still rings true to all of us. When did things go so wrong? Can’t we just start over? Why even bother? Why? It is a question that would not be out of place in the world of Always the Horizon, the debut novella by Murdoch of Murdoch Murdoch. A gloomy world, wrapped in a miasma of darkness, ever-enveloping the twilight of European civilization. A world between life and death, fantasy and fiction, philosophy and deed, it houses the remnants of a once-great people. It is a world that wants to be saved, but is condemned to decline, no matter the hero’s strength. It is something that must be overcome. The original .pdf can be found here https://www.murdoch-murdoch.net/html/murdoch-murdoch-always-the-horizon.html