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the Wrong Kidnapping, a short fic of Tír na Cali for Patreon

Aug11

The collar clicking around Trey’s neck was supposed to be the culmination of months – years – of planning, the final realization of all his hopes and dreams.

It made the feeling all that much more sour. This collar wasn’t pretty, like the ones in the contraband romance novels. It wasn’t light and airy, it wasn’t comfortable, like the ones Trey had played with, in underground clubs and quiet swing parties. It didn’t come with nice words and a quiet understanding of his place in the world, a sense of comfortable inevitability, a sense of honored submission.
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Never Call the L**rechaun – A Patreon Story

Jul21

After living their entire lives in Smokey Knoll, where a harpy fledgeling selling cookies door-to-door was a normal part of the day and dragons sometimes crash-landed in your backyard, if there was one thing I never expected to hear my children say it was “there’s no such thing as…”

And yet there was my oldest, Jin, staring out the front window in the living room, clearly and concisely declaring that exact thing.

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Goat-Mad, a Story of Reiassan – A Patreon Story

Jun14

Author’s note:

June 2016’s Patreon theme is Reiassan, the fantasy-and-steampunk setting for my web-serial Edally Academy and for many other stories, listed here.  A short description of the world can be found here on the Edally site. 

The story below is set on the continent of Reiassan, in the nation of Calenta, at a time at least a century before Edally Academy is set. 

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“Can we have a goat now?”

When Latezya was nine years old, she spent every spare moment of her school break cleaning out the outbuilding behind her family’s home.  Before her parents had bought the house, the old building had been a stable.  Now that it was theirs, it served mostly as a junk room and home to the wild weasels that ran rampant through the city. Continue reading →