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In Everlasting Wisdom

…Propaganda, aliens, and the unlikely friendship between a harmoniser who enforces compliance to the state, and a down-on-her-luck woman. Where to Buy Indiebound Amazon Buy Now…

At the Crossroads of Shadow and Bone

…As refugees flee the hunger of the Maw which chews people and cities on its relentless path, one girl meets a woman from the future… In Alma Alexander’s Children of a Different Sky….

The House, in Winter

…Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances The Dominion of the Fallen Reading Order (Complete) 0.2. “Of Books, and Earth, and Courtship” | 0.5. “In Morningstar’s Shadow” | 0.6. “Against the Encroaching Darkness” | 0.7. “The Death of Aiguillon” | 0.8 “Court of Birth, Court of Strength” | 0.9. “The House, in Winter” | Book 1. The House of Shattered Wings | 1.5. “Children of Thorns, Children of Water” | Book 2. The House of Binding Thorns | Book 3. The House o…

Memorials

…her house, as she expected. By now, she doesn’t question the aunts’ knowledge or how they came by it. She does what she’s told to, an obedient daughter beholden to her elders, never raising a fuss or complaining– the shining example of filial piety extolled in the tales her girlfriend Thuy so painstakingly reconstitutes in her spare hours. Shortlisted for a Locus Award, 2014. Companion piece to “The Weight of a Blessing” in Clarkesworld Magazine….

In the Age of Iron and Ashes

…They ran the girl down, in the grey light of dawn: a ring of copper-mailed horsemen, racing after her until her exhaustion finally felled her….

Golden Lilies

…a while that I realised my head had gone through the pine wood. I felt — light, empty, as if something had been torn out of me — more insubstantial than flesh and bones and muscles. Gradually, I made out stumbling words, coming from outside my grave: “I pray that you will come and be present; that you will grant to your posterity that they may be prosperous and blessed by good fortune. Reverently I present the fivefold sacrifice . . .”…

Blighted Heart

For years my city gave the hearts of maidens to the corn-man to awaken him, but on the day I came to him I was no longer untouched by man. The priests were careless; they had checked the previous morning, but did not check again. Their mistake, and mine, for I had made love to a warrior on the evening before, out of pique, out of a desire to defy them for the last time before they took my innocence away. I was not thinking of the consequences at…