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| Chand Veda |
Short story. 5100 words.
| In the aftermath of a train wreck that causes them to spend a night together in the woods, newlyweds Vikram and Gita see each other in a new light. |
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| The Children Of His Old Age |
Short story. 4000 words.
| An old dragon and an old dragon slayer prepare themselves - and their sons - to face off against each other. |
| Children Of The Night |
Novella. 20,000 words.
| When Marsineh finds herself betrothed to Lord Kolchash, she agrees to a plan proposed by her half-sister Yezade, a plan that will allow her to escape and seek out her true love Dhur. |
| Circe, The Other Woman |
Poem. 26 lines.
| Clockatrice |
Short story. 5260 words.
Also available as spoken word podcast
| In the time of Queen Elizabeth the First Diana Sesby, a girl of 16 goes into the garden to meet her lover and is turned to stone. Centuries later a writer investigates the truth of this legend. |
| Cold Fire |
Short story. 1900 words.
From an idea by John Kaiine.
| The narrator relates his account of a ship that is asked to tow a strange looking iceberg to the Arctic regions. |
| Cold Spell |
Short story. 4200 words.
| A witch embarks on a long journey in order to find a hero who can protect a northern village from the ravages of Winter. |
| Comfort And Despair |
Short story. 4830 words.
| Jeanne is the perfect wife and lover to her husband Maurice Carmineau. But she also keeps two other spectral lovers. |
| Crying In The Rain |
Short story. 6500 words.
Nominated as no. 26 in the Best Short Story category in the 1988 Locus Poll.
| Fifteen year-old Greena and her mother make a visit to the Centre. Here, Greena dreams of beginning a new life away from the house covered in Sealtite, a life where she'll be protected from unhealthy air and radioactive rain. |
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| Cyrion In Bronze |
Short story. 4700 words.
| When Cyrion is tricked by Juved into looking into the bronze mirror of Zilumi, he finds himself facing an enemy created from his own psychic fibre. To free his enslaved soul, Cyrion must find a way to force Juved to look into the mirror himself. |
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| Cyrion In Stone |
Novel. 41,000 words.
| Disguised as Roilant, Cyrion travels to Flor, the estate of Roilant's betrothed Eliset, there to undo the threat that she has placed on her cousin's life. Cyrion discovers that all is not as it seems on the decaying estate, which is occupied by Eliset and another cousin, Mevay. He is eventually led to the caverns beneath Flor, and to the identity of the cousin who is really in control. |
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| Cyrion In Wax |
Short story. 7300 words.
| Hasmun the doll-maker casts a spell on a wax doll he has created in the image of Cyrion. After Cyrion has stolen the doll Hasmun recovers it and casts his spell anew, with unexpected results. |
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| The Daughter Of The Magician |
Novella. 27,000 words.
| Ezail, the daughter of Shemsin and the magician Lord Rathak, is lost and raised by flits. Eventually, she is tossed out into the world, where she comes to the holy city of Jhardamorjh, the site of the Exaltation. |
| A Day In The Skin (Or, The Century We Were Out Of Them) |
Short story. 7300 words.
| Scay and Haro meet while both of them are Out, and discuss the difference between being In, and being dead. |
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| Dead Yellow |
Vignette. 590 words.
| The narrator recounts how one day in 2036 everything started to turn brown. |
| Death Dances |
Short story. 4500 words.
| In the city of Idradrud, Britza, the Harlot of the Pink House, Kreet, the Thief with Golden Hands, Sume, the Priestess of the Flame, and Mhiglay, the Captain of the Three Twenties, all receive messages reminding them of their appointment with Death. |
| Death Loves Me |
Novelette. 8000 words.
| Lukon, a chariot racer, has a secret to tell about a woman in a black veil that only he has seen watching his races. Urtemis has a meeting with the harlot Phebo, to talk about her husband Karestes. |
| Delirium's Mistress |
An excerpt from Chapter 2 of Part One of Delirium's Mistress. 419 words.
| The Demoness |
Short story. 5500 words.
| The white woman with the long red hair comes down from her white tower to follow Alondar, a man in gold with a golden horse. He has come to in search of his vow-brother Golbrant, and may soon join Golbrant as one of the white woman's victims. |
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| Deux Amours D'Une Sorcière |
Short story. 6000 words.
| One morning, Jhane sees two men outside her window - Nicolin Solat and Bernard de Cigny. She is drawn to one, but her imagined attraction to the other leads to tragedy for all. |
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| The Devil's Rose |
Novelette. 9200 words.
| A snowdrift causes Mhikal Mhikalson's train to be delayed for several days in a little town. There he meets Mardya Lindensouth, a sixteen year-old girl with a fascination for a stained-glass window in a local church. |
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| Discovered Country |
Novelette. 12,800 words.
| Both Eunicea Cantel and her son Martian have lived their lives to the fullest. When Eunicea dies, she leaves a message for Martian. It contains the news of a newly discovered country, and an invitation to join her there. |
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| Doll Skulls |
Novelette. 7500 words.
Part of The Secret Books Of Paradys series.
| On the eve of the turn of the century in Paradis, the young mother buys her daughter a pair of dolls for a present. Soon, the girl seems to live in a dream world that the mother cannot share. |
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| Don't Get Lost |
Short story. 3000 words.
| Sally and her boyfriend take a shortcut on the way home, but find that it leads them somewhere they don't expect. |
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| Dooniveh, The Moon |
Novella. 22,000 words.
| In which Pereban, a priest, rides a great winged horse, a present of Prince Hazrond, high into the sky. There he comes to Dooniveh, where he meets Queen Idune and accompanies her to the sun world, where she weds King Kurim. |
| Down Below |
Short story. 1200 words.
| A proposed move to a basement flat leaves the narrator with expectations that ultimately go unfulfilled. |
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