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Kallandras is a Master Bard trained in the famous Senniel College. He is often sent by the Bardmaster into war zones – because he always survives. There is a reason for this; the training he received in the Bardic College was not the only training to define his life. Set during the...
An old story: Girl who must marry for duty falls in love with boy who cannot fulfill that duty. The boy goes away to war, and war takes him; he never returns. But this history is slightly different. The boy was given leave to return, in the casement of his...
The Black Ospreys were a war-time unit, created in the heart of the Dominion of Annagar at the behest of one of the Empire’s three Commanders. They did what the rest of the army couldn’t — or wouldn’t — do and their colors became the only colors feared by the Southerners. Framed by the end...
A novella of 13k words. Emily Dontal is the godborn daughter of The Mother — one of the only godborn children allowed to live in the Barony of Breton. One dark night, she prays to her mother for a child — a godborn child, a sister — to train and teach so that the Church might continue in her...
Novelet of 12k words. Avandar Gallais is a domicis, and he has served Jewel ATerafin since she was sixteen. Long before he was a servant, he was known as The Warlord. He built and ruled Empires – but there are reasons he chose a life of service. Those reasons are the core of this story, which...
Novella of 21k words. The Guild of Makers has long been the most powerful guild in the Empire. Gilafas ADelios, the man who rules it, is therefore one of the most powerful men in the land. But he has never been confident in his ability as an Artisan, and he is unprepared...
Short story of 6k words On the night that Christ was born, he received many visitors, and among those, unchronicled, the vast host of the legendary creatures who still roamed the world: the dragon, the unicorn, the phoenix, and the Queen of all Faerie, to name only a few. The immortals had...
A short story of 5k words. The last of the Genies has lived for longer than he can remember, hiding from humanity to preserve his life; he is capable of granting three wishes, yes – the third wish is always death to his kind. Drawn to human cities and human dreams because they...
A short story of 5k words. April Stevens works, day in and day out, in an office, part of the secretarial pool. There is nothing remarkable about her life; it is pristine, organized, ordered. She dislikes change, dislikes the unpredictable. But she is changing, and in ways that she can’t predict,...
A short story of 4.5k words A young Henry. A young Thomas of London. One, by politics, determination, and birth, the King, and one, a commoner, and outsider at Court. We know how their friendship played out, in the end: with the murder of Thomas Beket. But where would the friendship have ended...
A short story of 4k words When he first saw the starving foreign child, he was five years old; the next time he saw her, he was six — and she was a ghost. A ghost who came at the start of every Christmas, lingering for twelve days before she once again left him in peace....
It's been a while since I promised a print version of the six Essalieyan short stories. I'm really sorry it's taken this long; the entire process gave me a whole new appreciation for what publishers actually do. But: it's finally available!
Originally published in Mike Resnick’s By Any Other Fame. 3k words. An alternate history, near the dawn of Israel, just after word of an assassination has arrived. Golda Meier must write one necessary, difficult letter.
Originally published in Deals with the Devil, ed. Mike Resnick, Martin H. Greenberg and Loren D. Estheman. Short story of 6k words. Wealth, fame, power — these are the things with which devils tempt mortals to trade away their souls. It’s a strictly favor-for-favor bargain. But even devils grow bored, and Aazian is among...
A short story of 6.5k words, originally published in Alternate Outlaws, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg. When the heart of her writing and her work is denigrated, a tired, exhausted writer is drawn into a game that feels like freedom by a man who says civilization is based not on...
A short story of 5k words, originally published in Witch Fantastic, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg. A young office worker overlooks a standing grove of weeping willows. There, her co-workers eat lunch in the shade. She’s tried this; all she can hear while she’s there is the weeping...
Originally published in Enchanted Forests, ed. Katharine Kerr and Martin H. Greenberg. A short story of 9k words A young man is visiting his sister at her cottage — in the middle of a bitterly cold winter. Who does that? He doesn’t particularly like cottages, he’s not fond of nature when it’s not contained in...
A short story of 6k words. Originally published in Phantoms of the Night, edited by Richard Gilliam & Martin H. Greenberg. A lone man enters a church to confess: he has murdered his wife. Why?
A short story of 9.5k words. Set in the expansive universe of Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar, this is about a young woman who works in an inn. She’s yearned and waited much of her life for a companion to walk past the gates, choose her, and carry her into a heroic, useful life. This doesn’t...
A short story of 10k words, originally published in Tarot Fantastic, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Lawrence Schimel. Shelagh was a mother, living in a small home, on the edge of the rest of her life with a husband she adored. Now, she lives alone. Her husband remains convalescent in a care facility,...
A short story of 9.5k words, originally published in Elf Fantastic, edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff An elderly woman walking the old ways comes to the Faerie circles to die — so that the child she carries, the last of her kin, might live. With her life as the payment, the...
A short story of a 7k words, original published in Return of the Dinosaurs, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg. A fossil — a bone — arrives in Peter’s mail. He understands what this means: The father from whom he’s been estranged since childhood has died. He’s never understood why his father deserted...
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