Mexican Onyx Chess Set Novels & Stories

"You saying it's not stolen doesn't make it true. I could say the chess set is mine too," a woman said. Jessie ignored her. She picked up one of the jade pieces and spoke calmly. "If you have poor vision, then look harder. This isn't the Curtis family's collection." She held the chess piece up under the banquet hall's lights. At the bottom of the chess piece, there was a sun. "Isn't that the Sunfire Jade Chess Set?"

Inside it rested several old items that belonged to Dante among them sat a worn-out leather chess set. Lorenzo stared at it for a long moment. He remembered being twelve years old and losing repeatedly to Dante who criticized every mistake he made with terrifying precision and patience, teaching him lessons he had disguised as games. Slowly, Lorenzo lifted the chess set and placed it carefully on the table beside Andre’s chair. The movement was quiet enough not to wake him or so he thought because just as Lorenzo turned toward the door, Andre’s voice came softly through the dim room. “You still kept something that belonged to him.” He said.

asks the contractor. “Yes, yes... it was a piece from his dear chess set...”, according to one of my informants. “Which part specifically...?” is the contractor interested in knowing.

“Kyle, let’s keep playing chess.” Kyle pulled his arm away and looked toward Candice. “Miss Hale, do you know how to play?” Mia asked, glancing at Candice. Candice looked at the top-tier jade chess set on the coffee table. But rather than playing Go, they were clearly playing the far simpler Five-in-a-Row. And Kyle had actually lost earlier… It wasn’t that he didn’t know how to coax someone. He just didn’t know how to coax her anymore. She looked up at Kyle, lips curved into a faint, bitter smile. “Yes, I know how. Would you like to play, Miss Jones?”