“Doctor Rudolfo Meets His Match” is in Innocence and Deceit, the second volume in the Ever After Fairy Tales anthology series. Enter the magical, unpredictable, wonderful world of fairy tales! Meet DeAnna Knippling! DeAnna’s favorite musician is Tom Waits, her favorite author is Lewis Carroll, and her favorite monsters are zombies. Her life goal is…
“Chance of Bunnies and Occasional Toad” is in Innocence and Deceit, the second volume in the Ever After Fairy Tales anthology series. Enter the magical, unpredictable, wonderful world of fairy tales! Meet Annie Reed Dean Wesley Smith says Annie is considered to be one of the best short story writers coming into fiction in the…
“True Love (Or the Many Brides of Prince Charming)” is in Innocence and Deceit, the second volume in the Ever After Fairy Tales anthology series. Enter the magical, unpredictable, wonderful world of fairy tales! Meet Todd Fahnestock and Giles Carwyn! Todd and Giles have been friends since high school. They co-wrote The Heartstone Trilogy, an…
“The Lizard Horses” is in Innocence and Deceit, the second volume in the Ever After Fairy Tales anthology series. Enter the magical, unpredictable, wonderful world of fairy tales! Meet Leah Cutter! When Leah was eight years old, she wrote in her journal, “When I grow up, I want to be a writer.” She now writes…
Jump into the water and enter the world of Faerie! On a rock by the shore sits a mermaid fair Dreaming of her lost lover as she combs her hair Kelpies, and selkies, and the great snakes of the sea All stop and listen as she sings of a love never to be For the…
In 17th-century Japan, Emiko has always been an outcast in her fishing village. When strange coins wash up on the shore near Emiko’s fishing village, she is the only one who resists the wave of greed overtaking everyone she has ever known. How long can she resist the pressure from her neighbors and from…
A lone figure walks a desolate beach. Heart cold and worn. Gun empty. Behind him the war of all wars destroys humankind. Before him lies the ocean. Cold. Harsh. Vast. Ageless. “The Black Marker at the End of Time” is in the Beneath the Waves collection. You can…
Funeral directors deal with everything at a funeral, but only a few must handle an influx of flower fairies. Or worse: the arrival of a flower fairy child, alone and unsupervised. Flower fairies are unpredictable…except when they get angry. And then they become terrifying. So, what will they do if they think one of…
Sivli, a dryad, senses a deep imbalance in Faerie. Earth energy wanes and the world of Faerie drifts dangerously off-kilter. With a plan in mind, Silvi decides she must be May Queen. To beat the sylphs in finding the first hawthorn blossoms of summer. She feels driven to save the day. This world bursts with…
Kaikala longed to leave her island and visit far-away lands. She wanted to see the exotic places described by warriors around the nightly campfires. But only warriors left the island. Girls could not be warriors. When a strange man washes up on the beach, she finally gets her wish for adventure. And she learns BE…
