Jagantha was already aware of the tenuous nature of the peace between his parents' tribes, but with the arrival of the plainsmen, things become even more strained. An evening that begins with politics becomes a very dangerous night as gods and monsters enter the game.
Usher is born with a purpose - even if he's not entirely sure what that purpose is. Newly-made with almost infinite powers, he awaits the humans' arrival, dreading something he can't quite remember. As his memory clears (and lust intensifies), he struggles with the question he has faced so many times before: will the gifts he so desperately wishes to give them in fact destroy them?
The Temple Bells by Hazel Marcus Ong (fantasy/faery tale)
Chung-shen wants more than anything to hear the mythic monks' bells, heard only by those who truly listen. His life grows magical in search of them, with the silver-skinned Jiang Yue from the sea; but will that be enough, if he never hears the bells? A faery tale/fable written with melodic prose.
The Rope by Joanna Gardner (fantasy)
Sylvie wakes with the evening mist, just as the morning fog puts her to sleep; always alone, each day collecting the rope that binds the Green. But one day, she sees someone else: someone she almost knows. And Hugh, seeing her, begins to remember, too, and wonder as each day he lays the rope to bind the Green...
Killing Beauty by Megan Kitching (science fiction)
The flyans are beautiful things: each unique, brightly colored, deadly. The task is to be rid of them - preserve them, if possible, through genetic manipulation, taxidermy, or at the least, photography; but to be rid of them, somehow. Their numbers grow fewer, but they grow no less beautiful in this story of the end of a species.
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