Daniel Couts
I’ve got the best seat in the house, a hidden little corner table where a lucky patron can sit in secret silence, sip a hot cup of tea, and watch the world pass by.
My show ended a few bells ago, but the crowd stuck around, talking and laughing together.
Anthony Reynolds
Smoke.
A keening cry cut through the morning air. Quinn glimpsed Valor above the canopy, through the branches of the immense firs.
Ian St Martin
A grinding crash threw Ysard from her bunk. She scrambled to her feet, buckling on her weapons and sprinting out onto the deck.
Ariel Lawrence
This was her plan all along. My luck’s run out. She is going to end me.
“Fortune—”
The words barely leave my lips before I hear the pull of a trigger.
Anthony Reynolds
The priests’ chanting reached a fevered pitch. Smoke coiled around the sacred blade, like so many serpents, writhing and twisting.
Matt Dunn
One of the wooden ears had snapped off. “I think I can strap it back together.”
“This is utterly majestic.” Tarnold almost laughed.
Dana Luery Shaw