Fantasy

Surviving Tomorrow: A Charity Anthology features stories by Orson Scott Card, Robert Silverberg, and many other authors. Includes my story The Ultimate Wager.

A childless queen confined to the palace.

A king overly enamored of male companionship.

The kingdom desperately needs an heir.

Who will father one?

From tundra to desert, from prairies to rainforests, the trade routes of Ganelerdos converge at Sparrenfor, Larpektis, Enelarmos, and Torg-ra-Honnet—the Merchant Cities.

Fair exchange offers prosperity to the creative and industrious, both human and elemental... and unearned riches to the ambitious and greedy.

Another day at the office for Ursula. Until bad boy Ranger, her first boyfriend, called. He hadn’t talked to her in years.

Because he was dead.

He told an unbelievable story. About making things right. And a buried fortune at a place they both knew well.

A hoax. Obviously. Though who else ever called her bodacious?

Was that why she checked satellite images of the place, and shopped for a shovel and a metal detector?

And if she dug up a buried fortune, what then?

Hans returned from the Great War, haunted. Not only by the horrors of the trenches, but haunted by visions of a more terrifying war to come. Would the parties and parades of Carnival 1919 offer him love and hope? Or doom him and his country to the devastation he foresaw?

No lakes, no forests, no pygmy triceratops and stegosaurs roaming the countryside. No, honest, niña, I wouldn’t lie to you. Back at the turn of the century, Big Bend was the dustiest corner of Texas. How did it change? Well...

Characters from American, Mexican, and Native folklore meet in this whimsical short story.

Captain Khavanov's orders: occupy an old fortress on the road to Sibiu, to secure the Red Army's supply line. In the fortress lived a frail old man. What about him drew the interest of a commissar from division headquarters? And why did Khavanov's men disappear one by one?

The future is bigger than we can imagine. Six speculative fictions by the author of The Reincarnation Run and the Portia Oakeshott, Dinosaur Veterinarian series.