Eleven previously uncollected fictions. Includes reprints from the pages of Absolute Magnitude, Analog, Dark Regions Magazine, Dreams of Decadence, and Weird Tales, three original stories, plus the novelette "Songs."
DNF: 60%, up to Chapter 12Sometimes I read a book and it takes way too long to get into it, but I am so determined to finish it that I don't realize that every time I pick up my Kindle I do it as if it is a chore, a task that I need to complete in order to move to something more enjoyable. In the...
The fairie known as Lady Silver-who gave the creative spark to Shakespeare and Marlowe-is in London, tracking a deadly supernatural beast that is drawn to Marlowe. She must stop it before it destroys both their world and hers.
Anthology of stories."In the earliest days of humankind, everything in the world seemed magical. Gods and demons, spirits and sprites were considered to be responsible for everything from life and death, to the turning of the seasons, to the abundance or failure of crops.Today, much that was once...
William Shakespeare has become the preeminent playwright of Elizabethan England, but his success comes with a price--his son Hamnet has disappeared in the realm of the Elven King, and Will must face the powers of darkness to rescue him.
By the time I got into the house, he was nowhere in sight. his father was in the living room, watching a holo of what looked like news. He gave me a curious look, as I came in."I didn't injure Kit," I said, defensively. "It was Joseph Klaavil."His father smiled. "I know that. He told me." But the...
Simon shot back and a young man dropped from a sort of overhanging walk. We were in a vast space, rounded and about twenty feet above. I didn’t know the plan of this base, of course, but it felt like a sort of central room, with corridors like spokes branching out in every direction. It struck me...
She picked them up, carrying them in with her. In her mind, she could see Tom shuffling out of them, hurrying to her rescue. She'd seen him do this before, and knew that he always kicked off his boots before he shifted.He was lucky, she thought, that no one had stolen his boots yet, as likely as ...
Hoyt & Sofie Skapski SMASHWORDS EDITION PUBLISHED BY: Naked Reader, LLC A Touch of Night Copyright (c) 2010 by Sarah A. Hoyt & Sofie Skapski ISBN 978-1-61136-001-4 Cover art copyright (c) 2010 by Sarah A. Hoyt All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above...
Rafiel Trall said, leaning over the table and keeping his voice low, “a series of deaths in town. Well, at least they’re classified as deaths, not murders. Bodies have been found . . . bitten in two.”“Bitten?” Kyrie asked, while her thoughts raced. Only one kind of thing could bite a person in tw...
Doc Bartolomeu said. Now I was the one closest to him. Jean had stayed in the other room, monitoring the machines hooked up to Kit. Bruno and Zen were probably there still. I hadn’t paid attention. I’d followed the doctor back to his kitchen area, which I knew from before also served as a laborat...
Which is to say that all the broomer bars we’d been in so far were starting to run together in my mind. It wasn’t that difficult. Broomer bars are, if not all alike, all of a type. They tend to be in the lower economic areas of seacities, and sometimes of natural islands. For all I know there are...
The carriers had set up with quiet efficiency. In this, at least, Nigel was happy. He'd made the right choice. After all the horror stories he'd heard about rebellious carriers and incompetent guides, he relished Kitwana's well-bred efficiency and his laconic, almost Briti...
Jade said, lowering her head, “you see, Third Lady’s oracle was proven right in telling me where to find you.” She looked at her hands and at the dark, polished table. She held a teacup, though the tea didn’t taste anything like what they drank on the boats. Indian tea, they’d told her. It wasn’t...
She’d been expecting something bare, perhaps with bathroom facilities outside. She’d never seen much point in that sort of thing. As far as she was concerned, humans had spent thousands of years getting away from the icky and stinky parts of nature, and it would be an insult to their efforts for ...