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Fantasy
The Perfumer in Purgatory
Is Purgatory a place of purification or one of temporary punishment where souls in need of improvement are made ready for Heaven? Or is it one last chance for the worst of us to show some remorse? Eit...
Fantasy
The Lost Soul
Flash fiction about a storm, a wind-blown soul, and a hardscrabble man with a burlap sack.
Fantasy
A Stillness of Trumpets
Some people swore the house was haunted, that the Madonna had appeared there on the day the angels drew forth their fiery swords and the devils hit back, hard
Fantasy, Mythic
The Weight of Mountains
When we are tasked by fate with the impossible, and regardless of those who have gone before us and failed — we have the duty and the chance.
Fantasy, Diverse, Heroic Fantasy
Esclados the Red
Shame is a prison of the soul, and sometimes the fight to free yourself is a sharper one than even sword and shield can defend against.
Contemporary Fantasy, Magical Realism, Fantasy
Answered Prayers
Author of nearly 100 stories, appearing in magazines from Analog and Galaxy to Space and Time, Scott Edelman is a master story-teller and editor. Answered Prayers takes us to a magical place.
Fantasy
The Last Petal
Beauty and the Beast is not always a love story, nor is the true beast always the one against whom the villagers turn their wrath. In partnership lies survival.
Fantasy
Alchemy of Glass Excerpt - Chapter 8
Alchemy of Glass by Barbara Barnett, Coming April 21 from Pyr Books. Here we present Chapter 8, which really gets the reader into this crucial part of the narrative.
Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
Dreamforger
Once a master craftsman of nightmares, Nordri labors under a curse of empathy. The curse has tangled around his soul and linked him to those suffering from the dreamforger's art.
Urban Fantasy, Romantic, Magical Realism
The Ghost of a Smile
If there are spirit guides for the living, let them be as John J Miller envisions them, given form by the written word and empowered by a belief that grows out of love.
Fantasy, Heroic Fantasy
A Question of Truth
Jane Lindskold’s popular Firekeeper saga continues in the pages of DreamForge as Firekeeper and Blind Seer are sent on a mysterious mission by a jaguar named Truth.
Fantasy, Romantic
Smith's Point
Smith's Point is a fantasy novelette of fun, wit, and life-long love. (We could have called it "How I Met Your Grandmother and Other Perilous Magical Adventures.")