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Treasures often wash up on the beach after a big storm, but Torin and Andry Danickson weren't expecting a perfectly-tanned sealskin caught on a piece of driftwood, and they certainly weren't expecting the naked girl who appeared, asking for the skin back.
Sealskin is a fantasy short story based on old folklore.
Maring, Del and Seri leave their village one night to watch nine white foxes play on the barrens. But these foxes are Folk, and Folk don't like being spied on.
Brenna was named for a shape-shifting bird goddess, so when her beloved expresses a longing to fly, turning her herbwoman skills to creating a pair of magic wings doesn't seem like such a stretch. But she never thought that setting Lir free would break her heart.
I. A young man sets out every morning to destroy the roses that threaten to snag the fleeces of his father's sheep.
II. A prince makes his way through the rose bushes to an ancient castle only to find he's not the first prince to arrive.
III. A princess slumbers in the shelter of monstrous briars fed for thousands of years on the blood of the princes who died on their thorns.
Once, Lir Skavinson could fly, and it lost him his beloved. Now he's just a simple fisherman again, but he remembers having wings. And Maveen is a "perilous child," destined to become a shaman. But she can't hear the spirits.
Two Tales of Frisland includes two short stories: "Remembering to Fly" and "Perilous Child."
Two young women from a fishing village follow a story about a man who could turn into a reindeer out onto the barrens. What they find will change the life of one of them forever.
When a fisherman dies at sea and washes up later, it's often only the pattern of the knit of his sweater that tells people which village to send the body to. But the people of Cobbleshore also believe that their knit contains magic--magic to save a person's soul from the dreaded Sea King. When Torin is swept overboard by a wave, he wishes he hadn't left his sweater behind.
There is a dragon in the woods near the village of Ravenswing. She is sleek and green and fire-breathing, and she's already eaten one of the village's geese. But Skavi and his little sister Triss know the dragon has an egg, and they don't want to see her die. So they come up with a plan to save the dragon and her egg--but will they get to them before the hunters do?
In Frisland, they say that the souls of drowned men may be trapped in the Sea King's realm, and the Sea King's daughters prowl the waves like sharks. But there is one way to escape the watery depths, for the soul if not for the body.
"Daughters of the Sea King" is a fantasy short story.
After three years of brooding, Lir has finally decided to leave familiar waters and head overland to the village of Ravenswing to beg forgiveness from the love of his life. Along the way he meets a traveling storyteller who just happens to be going the same way--to confess his love to the same woman. "Raven's Wing" is a fantasy short story with magic, love, and one small dragon.
Lir Skavinson has finally come home. He finds the place and the people not so different from when he left, but now there's a hermit on the tiny island of Great Skerry--a young man with more in common with Lir than he would have thought possible. "Great Skerry" is a fantasy short story about love, loss and seal people.
When Fionn is charged with the care of the worldly fey Kiernan, he's surprised to discover Kier is the man he's had visions of his entire life. All Kier knows of Fionn is that he's attractive. When they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the peace of the Nine Monarchies, the two young men must decide what to do: save the world, or fall in love?