Stories tagged as "Magic".
“I saw her first the day I found Dad on the kitchen floor. The new girl. The wild girl.
“At first I thought Dad had been drinking again. There were beer cans scattered across the floor. But the cans were still full, and I couldn’t smell alcohol.”
First published in Realms of Fantasy, February 2005.
Haunted by a guilt he can’t admit even to himself and driven by jealousy, Pythaes drives his expedition every northward. But his obsession may lose him everything he ever wanted and doom everyone.
First published in Bone Roads: Nine Stories of Magic and Wonder, 2012.
In Uncle Vernon’s garden, the river of stars might sweep you away. Satyrs weave tales on looms made of moonbeams. Worlds fall and die in every single teardrop. And Uncle Vernon tells stories that can’t possibly be true. But hidden in those stories is the single lie that will break Benji’s heart.
First published in Realms of Fantasy, February 2006.
In the rainforest, there is love and magic, jealousy and romance, hope and fear. Now the road is coming, and everything will change, forever.
First published in Ideomancer Unbound, December 2002.
Jamie Barton’s life is in ruin. He is unemployed and his wife has just left him after fifteen years. In despair, he returns to the abandoned industrial estate where he used to work. But when he meets an unusual woman there, everything will change, and not just for him.
First published in Strange Horizons, 6 June 2005.
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.
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.
In the trenches of Ypres, a young Lieutenant finds himself in a hell of mud, rain, and thunderous shelling. But each night, his men are disappearing into No Man’s Land, and he must find out why.
First published in The Third Alternative, Issue 41, Spring 2005.
From the moment they met, Ralph has always believed what his wife once told him, that she was the queen of the fairies. But now she has left him.
Together with his daughter, Bonnie, Ralph takes a trip to discover who his wife really was and where she came from. Neither of them are prepared for what they find.
First published in Realms of Fantasy, December 2005.
Cameron Everett hasn’t seen his high-school girlfriend for twelve years when they meet in the queue of a cafe. But both of them have followed very different paths since, and this meeting isn’t an accident. If he can’t convince her that his is the right way, Cameron may not walk away from this.
First Published in Realms of Fantasy, June 2011.
Srilal doesn’t know why his wife has left him. He doesn’t know what he’s done wrong. The five gifts that appear on his doorstep are a message, but can he understand it before the war in the north calls him, and it is too late?
First published in Strange Horizons, 9 June 2003.
Once upon a time, a prince was turned into a frog. And that was where it all went wrong, because tradition or no tradition, princesses just weren’t going around kissing frogs anymore.
First published in The December Lights Project, December 2010.