AN AMBYS 2024 FAVORITE (POETRY) These my offerings, tiny and fragile, they must take root in stubborn soil. Fertilize them. Give them shape. Twisted they may grow, but their trunks must be strong. They must reach through the night. They must be of their ground... Note: this is as much an art portfolio as it is an anth...
My husband found some of my old poetry in a box in the back room when we were decluttering our house. He asked me if I wanted to save it. As it turned out, I did. I wrote these in September and October of 2003, shortly after I'd discovered I was pregnant with our second child. It is now my autumn. I am not young; I b...
The Dreamer awakes, the shadow goes by; the tale I have told you, that tale is a lie... Portals to magical worlds, goddesses that walk among us, corvids that speak the meaning of life, and more await the one who peruses this volume of collected tales. Reader, remember this: the tales are pure fictions. Fantasies. Ex...
In Neihon, the Yokai are leaving. Slowly, one by one, they cross the waves toward the rising sun, walking, flying, and swimming toward a new land that only they can see. Yet some remain. They remain out of love, or out of obligation. The Minamoto clan has defeated the Taira clan, driving its warriors into the sea. Th...
Through "The Gilden Door," a young girl grows up rapidly as she discovers she must save a land from ruin. Through the door into "Arkesh," two teens stumble and fall into a kingdom's civil war. Enter the dimensional portals to two magical worlds in this back-to-back collection of novelettes.
What happens when the healer of an oppressive, tiny village helps her younger brother learn magic, giving him a chance at living a decent life? Nothing good.