The Caravan Pearls
Shadows and Signals 12 min read

The Caravan Pearls

Silence followed as Jim carefully scanned every article, and Mavis touched each line. The way they knew, for Jim, this knowledge came differently to Mavis. For him, the words stood out boldly. He couldn’t miss it. ‘That’s the one,’ he pointed.…
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Rock-a-Bye in Godspace
Shadows and Signals 16 min read

Rock-a-Bye in Godspace

People were already leery of the Arrow Drive; if we had any more mishaps, we’d forfeit our safety rating altogether and be barred not only from the lucrative corporate runs but also from such bread-and-butter jobs as our present engagement: the off-peak special to Gabor II.…
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In Vino Veritas
Shadows and Signals 16 min read

In Vino Veritas

All I can think about is the impure blood roiling uneasily in my veins. Under normal circumstances, the faintest trace of human ancestry would be enough to keep me forever excluded from this place – and the last elf in my family line was four generations back.…
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In the Saying, Make This True
Children of Imagined Worlds 27 min read

In the Saying, Make This True

Mama tells a different version, when she’s had a cup or two of swamp-rice wine. We’re cursed, all right, she insists, but we’re cursed from the inside out. It was the first Dread Lord that put a hex on his own people, when he figured out he was going to lose.…
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