Short Stories: Adventure

Stories tagged as "Adventure".

Fire Magic

Marko is far too old for romance and adventure. As captain of the king’s guards, all he wants is to do his duty and keep his head down. So it really is a shame that his hotheaded young friend has fallen in love with a princess and that the princess’s chaperone is so infuriating. Because adventure and romance are coming for Marko, whether he likes it or not.

First published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue 23, June 2006.

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The Land of Reeds

Amenemhet has been murdered. Yet when his ghost awakens, he discovers that the way to the afterlife, the Land of Reeds, is closed. And, worse, the man who murdered him is determined to steal Amenemhet’s widow and his children.

His only hope is the ghost of a young girl who still seems to retain her personality. But the dead wind is blowing, and Amenemhet is forgetting himself and his life.

First published in Realms of Fantasy, February 2006.

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The Thirteenth Time

You know how sometimes there are things that happen that you never want to think about again? Not because they’re terrible or horrifying, and not because they were such a perfect moment that everything else seems like it’s seen through a thin cold rain, but because that’s the moment you made a choice, and you know — you know — you made the wrong one.

First published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 442, October 2025.

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