Short Fiction

World of Kinsmen

Futuristic Fantasy, Publisher: Samhain, Editor: Angela James

Silent Blade (06/02/2009) – novella

She lifted the lid off the pot, releasing a cloud of aromatic flavor into the kitchen, and scraped the herbs into the soup.  “What is it you want?”

“You.”

“Why?”

He frowned.  “I’m not sure.  But I’m plagued by dreams involving your breasts and honey.”

Her eyebrows crept up.  He caught a hint of blush on the tan smoothness of her cheeks and found it at once elating and erotic.

“It’s quite adolescent of me, I know,” he said.

“You break into the house of a complete stranger, force yourself into her kitchen, and suggest that she should surrender her breasts to you so you can satisfy your honey dripping fetish.  What woman could pass on that invitation?”

Other Works

Grace of Small Magics (03/03/2009) – short story, Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance

Magic stabbed her, cold and sharp, wrenching a startled gasp from her.  Her eyes watered from pain.

“Lilian!” Nassar barked.

“Go!” The chauffer mashed a square button on her dashboard.

The roof of the vehicle slid aside.  A dark sheath coated Nassar.

The pain pierced Grace’s ribs, slicing its way inside.

Nassar jerked her to him.  She collided with the hard wall of his chest, unable to breathe.

The dark sheath flared from him, filling the vehicle in long protrusions, shaping into a multitude of pale feathers.

“Hold on!” Nassar snarled.  Grace threw her arms around his neck and they shot straight up, into the sky.  Wind rushed at her.  The pain vanished.  She looked down and almost screamed – the car was far below.

“Don’t panic.”

The flesh of Nassar’s neck crawled under her fingers, growing thicker.   She turned to him and saw a sea of feathers and high above huge raptor jaws armed with crocodile teeth.   Her arms shook with the strain of her dead weight.

“It’s okay,” the monster reassured her in Nassar’s voice.

Her hold gave.  For a precious second, Grace clung to the feathers, but her fingers slipped.  She dropped like a stone.