Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror Writer
This was where the dead went.
Not up above, to the clouds and the bright, high skies. Their ancestors had believed that, long ago, but Kyen hated the idea—to be lost up there, blown hither and thither by the winds. Far better to return to the earth, to become part of it and be reborn, one day.Continue Reading
We passed the last dandelion by late morning, and by noon, the grass had faded. Nothing grew in the gray, aether-swept deadlands beyond the city’s eastern wall.
“I should bring Martha,” said Ma, her voice cracked with age. “She’d love it.”
My younger sister patted Ma’s shoulder. “I’m here, Ma.”
“Oh, not you, dear. I meant my daughter, Martha.”
The spectre of a girl appeared, matching our slow pace with her skipping walk. This was the Martha that Ma remembered, aged six, not a thirty-year-old woman with children of her own.Continue Reading
This was where the dead went.
Not up above, to the clouds and the bright, high skies. Their ancestors had believed that, long ago, but Kyen hated the idea—to be lost up there, blown hither and thither by the winds. Far better to return to the earth, to become part of it and be reborn, one day.Continue Reading
Muirenn stood atop the moonlit cliff, her raised hands bloody from the shell fragments she grasped. She pulled back her arms, and the cold, salt air of the ocean surged over her. Then she swept her arms forward, and the island air rushed out, warm and scented of clover.
Hear my plea. Speak to me!Continue Reading
Savander leads the First Blades, sorcerer-swordsmen who protect and serve the Empire’s Magicians–but his own gifts are incomplete, and the path of a Magician remains beyond him. When at last a deal presents itself, a way to become the Magician he always dreamed of being, the price may be too high for him to pay.
Narrated by The Bard.Continue Reading
Half magician and half religious figure, the Ashwright can bring hope and relief to a people ravaged by war and banditry…for a price.
Narrated by Wilson Fowlie.Continue Reading
Founded in 1989, On Spec is Canada’s longest-running and most successful speculative fiction magazine, and it has a more eclectic taste for fiction compared to some American publications.Continue Reading