Philologos; or, A Murder in Bistrita    by James D. Macdonald
Price: $0.99 USD. 7060 words. Published on April 25, 2011. .
A short story, first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy 9. With overtones of paranoia and undertones of unresolved sexual tension, it’s also an origin story for one of the major characters in our novel Land of Mist and Snow.