Riverside Stories
A series of short stories set along the River Ushelay, in the fantasy kingdom of Golwerra. Incidentally, this is the same world in which my new e-book, The Price of Blood: Book One of the Golwerra Stores, (subtle right...? real subtle...?) is set. The ebook is available on Amazon by following the above link (just saying).
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Firenight
The lake almost freezes. Never quite. Even in the heart of winter. But when the weather is fierce enough, in the snow-bundled heights of winter, the...
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The Beauty of Our Women (Part 1 of 2)
She gazes out the window. Something a little bit less than a silhouette. From the ground there is only the shape of her, silver against lace, the...
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The Beauty of Our Women (Part 2 of 2)
The lords and ladies arrive. There are two days before Firenight, before the feasting and dancing and music. And they just seem to stream in, along...
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Choices, Past and Present
She could count her as kin. More or less. A third or fourth cousin, a few times removed and by marriage. A tenuous link, a thread. She wondered if...
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Lives, Lived and Unlived (Part 1 of 4)
Jeddos heard the rumours that she’d been and come back. “Why didn’t you say anything to me before?” His friend, Erngrod, told him – perhaps a little...
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Lives, Lived and Unlived (Part 2 of 4)
It began with a boy. It began with young Quin Bardsboy racing through the fields and yelling out to everyone: “They’re coming! The northern lords are...
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Lives, Lived and Unlived (Part 3 of 4)
“Well, maybe you do,” his mother said, on the day a new lord marched into Hurrendel ahead of a small honour guard, and surrounded by servants and...
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Lives, Lived and Unlived (Part 4 of 4)
Time moved on. Jeddos learnt in his bones that it was stubborn like that. He was told by his father that his mother was sick. That the sickness...
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Derrcott
They arrived at the village of Derrcott with the sun setting at their backs. “It’s as good as any place to sleep the night,” Kinsom said. Jadda...
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The Edge of the Forest
The forest is a clever adversary, a worthy lover, a lifelong friend, a duplicitous companion. You have to watch your every step, you watch every...
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Old Sephracott
“It was here where we camped, that last night.” In the ruins of what had once been a village, supposedly flooded some centuries ago, abandoned...
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Harvest Moon
We do and we don’t exist. I suppose that’s the way you can describe it. We look out on four horizons at once, and the sun sets in all of them, or the...
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Dark Flames
Jadda would never be able to say for sure when and where the moment came. She only knew that she didn’t see or feel it at the time. She only knew...
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Bright Rain
It stopped raining. Slowly. So slowly that it was hard to say at what point the last drop fell. It was hours. It was until nearly dawn. And all that...
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Old Bones
I exist and I don’t exist. I suppose it has been that way for years. Time. Seasons. Years. It all twists and turns in knots in this place, never...
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Older Memories
This would be the place then. Jadda squinted against the heavy hand of the sun. Up on the hillock there were a couple of great stones, man-high...
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A Pact of Sorts
“You’re a murderer!” she yelled at him. “I told you. He isn’t dead.” “It’s the next best thing.” “He did the same to me.” “Without knowing. This is...
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Cassiolta - 1
I used to imagine that I was in love with him. A strange target for a young girl to choose. We who are supposed to set our sights on handsome princes...
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Cassiolta - 2
It was Cassiolta. She broke it all. I was wild with the jealousy only a child of not-quite-nine can know. I thought she was a conniving witch, a...
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Where the Rivers Meet - 1
They negotiate treaties here. They sat it is because the magic of the interweaving rivers sees all, it knows when the truth is missing, the bubbling...
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Where the Rivers Meet - 2
Days later, the lords were making their own departures. They had a treaty in their pockets – half of it each, cut jagged down the middle so that the...
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All that Matters
Kin could have been Kinsom. Jadda found it disturbing. Every time she looked at him, she would at first see the young man who’d come to her on...
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Ashelmarring
This was the city. She’d heard it talked about. She’d known people who’d been here, even people who had come from here, but she’d never set foot...
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Dreok
Jadda could see it. Once Kin said the word out loud. This was a grown man, having thickened and muscled, with long hair that had darkened in the...
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