"The Belt and the Necklace"
The ugly duckling teenage daughter of a fashion icon finds herself ostracized in a beauty-obsessed world. Desperate for love, Barbara makes a heart-wrenching bargain with water-dwelling spirits. But the deal comes at a dreadful cost and Barbara must find the strength to forge a new destiny.
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The Longest Road in the Universe: A Collection of Fantastical Tales
Three broken people; a monk bearing a terrible scar, a warrior facing a terrible sorrow, and a woman hiding a terrible past face a relentless army so difficult to defeat it might as well be invincible. Genetically-altered citizens of a volcanic desert planet rush to preserve their cultural heritage as a terraforming project consigns them to death. A population of slaves engineered to love its owners comes to grips with their disappearance, while a grief-stricken pilot follows the trail of his missing master to the center of the galaxy. Supermassive singularities at the end of the universe contemplate the harmony before and the quiet ahead; mourning, eulogizing, and creating something altogether new. Discover these and other stories in The Longest Road in the Universe: A Collection of Fantastical Tales.
The Ruin of Beltany Ring: A Collection of Pagan Poems and Tales
This collection of poems and tales, spanning eight years of publication in Pagan and speculative fiction magazines and journals, includes award-nominated pieces that illuminate Pagan life and relationships with the sacred. Here there are Wiccan attorneys facing terrible dilemmas, Heathen priests bringing the good word of Woden to aliens, destructive fairies grieving for Detroit, and more.
"Will you not come? Will you not leap like a stag onto the crossroads and turn to the left, the way of removing, and turn again until your fetters are broken? Will you not flee into the forest then, and be free?"
Grandmother Mælkevejen's Belly
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Let me tell you a story about the galactic core, the people who live there, and the terrible thing that was done to their children. Let me tell you about drummers and dancers, activists and scientists, who suffer together but cannot agree about the manner of their healing. Can they resolve their differences? Can they mend what was broken? Find out in Grandmother Mælkevejen's Belly.