Originally published at ankewehner.de. You can comment here or there.

Genre: Fantasy
Summary: A serf figures our that she has been working magic for her master.
Notes: Based on the prompt "magic embroidery" by Lynn E. O'Connacht
Words: 1179
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Originally published at ankewehner.de. You can comment here or there.


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Originally published at ankewehner.de. You can comment here or there.

"Leaping Lizards", "The Best Revenge", and "What Really Matters" are three science fiction short stories published as separate ebooks. They take place in the same universe, and mostly follow Kinahran, a young cat-centaur growing up on a clan-ship of her people.

I've read and ( Read more... )

Originally published at ankewehner.de. You can comment here or there.

Finished is a science fiction adventure short story (~4800 words) published as ebook at Smashwords

Official blurb:

A life of larceny in a half-wrong body isn't what Aldin hoped for, but right now it's all he's got and he's making the best of it. When an unwelcome surprise sends ( Read more... )

A while ago I posted short reviews of stories M.C.A. Hogarth collected under the headline “The Pelted SF”. Today’s the turn for another setting and culture she invented.

The Jokka are an alien species with three sexes, going through two puberties during each of which an individual’s sex may change, at random. The stories take place in a pre- ( Read more... )

The stairs went far down, leaving the sounds of the city behind high above. Ardí carried an oil lamp and led his appointed novice to a small room on a landing, where he set the oil lamp on a small table. He pulled back a curtain and led her onwards. The next chamber was a short corridor, with another heavy curtain at the end of its left side. Its ( Read more... )