Michelle Sagara

Biography

I write novels as Michelle Sagara:

THE BOOKS OF THE SUNDERED
Into the Darklands
Children of the Blood
Lady of Mercy
Chains of Darkness, Chains of Light

(These were published originally as Sagara books, but were reprinted under the name “Michelle Sagara West”

CHRONICLES OF ELANTRA:
Cast in Shadow
Cast in Courtlight
Cast in Secret
Cast in Fury
Cast in Silence
Cast in Chaos
Cast in Ruin (September 20, 2011)
Cast in Peril*

THE QUEEN OF THE DEAD:
Silence (May, 2012)
Touch*
Grave*

* Forthcoming

Where to find Michelle Sagara online

Books

When a Child Cries
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 6,630. Language: English. Published: June 23, 2020 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
A short story of 6k words. Originally published in Phantoms of the Night, edited by Richard Gilliam & Martin H. Greenberg. A lone man enters a church to confess: he has murdered his wife. Why?
Ghostwood
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 9,270. Language: English. Published: June 8, 2020 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
Originally published in Enchanted Forests, ed. Katharine Kerr and Martin H. Greenberg. A short story of 9k words A young man is visiting his sister at her cottage—in the middle of a bitterly cold winter. Who does that? But he’s here, in a winter forest, with his sister … and shambling corpses that seem to follow him wherever he goes. What happened here? Why are they after him?
The Hidden Grove
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,440. Language: English. Published: May 25, 2020 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
A short story of 5k words, originally published in Witch Fantastic, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg. A young office worker overlooks a standing grove of weeping willows. She can hear the weeping of children she can’t see, can’t touch, can’t reach. No one else can hear them. Who are they? Why are they crying?
What She Won't Remember
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 7,750. Language: English. Published: May 10, 2020 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Alternative history
A short story of 6.5k words, originally published in Alternate Outlaws, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg. When the heart of her writing and her work is denigrated, a tired, exhausted writer is drawn into a game that feels like freedom by a man who says civilization is based not on civility, but fear. The fearless can do anything. Anything at all.
Winter
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 6,320. Language: English. Published: April 27, 2020 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
Originally published in Deals with the Devil, ed. Mike Resnick, Martin H. Greenberg and Loren D. Estheman. Short story of 6k words. Even devils grow bored, and Aazian is among the oldest. He is hunting unusual souls, and finds one. What will he do when a mortal asks of him something he's never been asked?
Four Attempts at a Letter
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 4,000. Language: English. Published: April 13, 2020 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Alternative history, Fiction » Fantasy » Historical
Originally published in Mike Resnick’s By Any Other Fame. 3k words. An alternate history, near the dawn of Israel, just after word of an assassination has arrived. Golda Meier must write one necessary, difficult letter.
Hunger
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,350. Language: English. Published: September 9, 2011 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
(5.00 from 1 review)
A short story of 4k words When he first saw the starving foreign child, he was five years old; the next time he saw her, he was six—and she was a ghost. A ghost who came at the start of every Christmas, lingering for twelve days before she once again left him in peace. Why did she choose to haunt him? And what, in the end, must he do to give the the peace they both deserve?
For the Love of God
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,450. Language: English. Published: September 9, 2011 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Fantasy » Historical
A short story of 4.5k words A young Henry. A young Thomas of London. One, by politics, determination, and birth, the King, and one, a commoner, and outsider at Court. We know how their friendship played out, in the end: with the murder of Thomas Beket. But where would the friendship have ended had the murder not occurred, had there been no death in the cathedral?
Shadow of a Change
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 6,230. Language: English. Published: September 9, 2011 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
A short story of 5k words. April Stevens works, day in and day out, in an office, part of the secretarial pool. There is nothing remarkable about her life; it is pristine, organized, ordered. She dislikes change, dislikes the unpredictable. But she is changing, and in ways that she can’t predict, doesn’t understand, and can no longer hide...
Gifted
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,670. Language: English. Published: August 18, 2011 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
(5.00 from 1 review)
A short story of 5k words. The third wish is always death to a Genie, and now only one Genie remains. He has hidden his power and denied the use of his wishes for millennia, because he wants to live. But one night, after millennia of care, he thoughtlessly grants the wish of an old woman...
Birthnight
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 7,480. Language: English. Published: August 18, 2011 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Anthologies » General
(5.00 from 1 review)
Short story of 6k words On the night Christ was born, he received many visitors, and among those, unchronicled, the vast host of legendary creatures who still roamed the world: the dragon, the unicorn, the phoenix, and the Queen of all Faerie, to name only a few. Called by a strange, unknown constellation, they are drawn to the child whose birth would herald the start of a new age

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alternate history    christmas    contemporary    deal with devil    dinosaur    dragon    family    fantasy    forest    genies    ghost    ghost story    golda meier    grief    mystery    phoenix    thomas beket    transformation    unicorn    wishes    witch