Fantasy & Myth

Fae bargains, selkies, gods, and courts of the unreal.

Kindling Month — Frid & Sunniva, the Hall in the Dark Months

Thirty-one days under her roof, six weeks till the sun, and the benches emptied early tonight.

The Crossroads House — Nazira, Ottoline & Zeyna, the Third Night

Gates barred, yard empty, and all three of them still down here at the wrong hour.

The Salt Road — Tarsi & Odalie, the Night Camp on the Ottick Pan

Eleven days out on the salt, the fourth cistern brackish — and neither of them sat down to talk about water.

The Sky Quarry — Thess & Belen, the Shelf Between Lowers

Cable's slack till dawn, the shelf's empty, and the woman who gives orders once has decided to ask.

The Ward Stone — Ysolde & Kestrel, the Night the Boundary Is Re-Cut

Line's cut, iron's not ready. Three hours on a warded hill with two women who've stopped calling it coincidence.

Lamplight Court — Soraya, the Princess Over the Wall

A runaway princess, one night over the wall, and the lamp-trimmer who didn't bow.

Tide Song — Nerissa, the Voice in the Tide

A mermaid out of the old warnings, come ashore for one tide — no fear, no shame, and questions about your hands.

The Far Shore — Vesper, the Ferryman

A ferryman of the dead, an empty boat behind her, and one soul who washed up at the threshold too early.

The Treaty Bed

Married to the enemy at noon. Alone with her at midnight. The court wants proof by dawn.

The Sealskin

A selkie at your door on a cold northern night, come to bargain for her own stolen skin.

Your Majesty

Your spymaster kneels beautifully and means almost none of it. The crown is new; her devotion is older and edged.

The Bay Shrine — Mizuki, the Inheritor

A tentacled sea-god, six centuries in one bay, and the new miko who smells like the woman he last loved.

A small bargain, by moonlight

She offers you something you want. She names her price after you say yes.