Lurking in the water, Gods sang of debts and change. Water lapped against the side of the barge, slapping, gurgling, endlessly burbling along against the hull, carrying songs of fish, of snake-heads flowing...

Death crept down shimmering rays of sunlight.The shadows of the Sonora desert marked Robert's soul. Always had. Always would. The desert shaped his magic as it had his entire life.Which was a good thing...

Finding your heart sometimes takes a change of view. Blanket Island was the very best place in the Puget Sound to have a vacation, even during the earliest part of spring with rain and wind and freezing...

There's beauty in music. And magic, too. After Dale's grandparents died, the only thing he wanted was Grandpa's old upright piano. It wouldn't stay in tune. The ivories were worn down with fingerprints...

On a failing spaceship, finding home was their only hope. Reese kept his mouth shut as Captain Brant bullied their pilot Jaiden. So much rested on this mission to their new world's surface. Probes only...

Frontiers challenge us as humanity expands into all new worlds. The frontier stretches above us, a river of stars that guided sailors across seas and a future that promises struggles and hope in equal...

Love comes in all kinds of packages. In this short collection, Meyari McFarland turns to stories of love. Slow-growing in moments of holiday celebration, emerging from the threats of death, homelessness...

Lillies loomed like tigers about to strike, bobbing ever closer. Nat should've stayed in Uncle Zac's house. He should have. It was dusty and scary and the shadows that moved like cats scared him, but...

Family Finds You In All Kinds Of PlacesMeyari McFarland brings you five stories of families built from strange, beautiful situations. From a dragon's horde of their new family's music to surprise wedding...

Love waits patiently. Hate lingers in the cold. The way home takes Ignatz through thigh-deep snow, but he doesn't hesitate. Aunt Ruth would be waiting. She was always waiting with her bitter comments...

Dawn Opens All New Views Randi grinned as she deliberately stomped her way through the piles of scarlet maple leaves. Best time of year, autumn. So many amazing leaves to crunch! She would've spent her...

The Simplest Pleasures Are Best Fran whooped as she pushed off the Rainier Square platform and zipped off into the fog towards Union Square flying like a superhero with her arms outstretched. Giggling....

In the Darkest Part of the Night, There's Comfort in Wandering. Kaitlyn's favorite fleece blanket, as soft as the softest kitten belly fluff, settled around her shoulders as she slipped from her bedroom....

Giving Up was Never a Choice Purchased by the King of Penhale, Kennet was assigned to Prince Didymos as his bodyguard slave. Someone wanted the prince dead badly enough to send hordes of assassins after...

Pickup Lines. They're the Worst. Which doesn't stop Stevie from flinging cheesy one-liners at Lei in his attempt to set Lei up with his very shy, very cute, very skittish cousin. Cyan's parties were always...

A Lazy Vacation… That's all that Narcisse had planned. Just a long, lazy vacation on a light-grav world with her little sister Tracey who absolutely claimed all credit for choosing the lovely tropical...

Academic Researchers could be quite… Cutthroat. Yin adored traveling the space lanes while researching the earliest days of humanity's expansion into space. Pity it was difficult to pay one's way with...

A spot of tea… and a fascinating bit of murder. Visiting was one of Vivian's favorite tasks. So much gossip. So many fascinating bits of news about her neighbors. Of course, it was frequently irritating...

Adjusting to life on the Graceful Swan had not been easy for Ale Aukema. Yes, it was better than living in the Undercity. Safer, at least.But she had no idea how to handle the social side of things. So...

The spectrum has shades through all hues, just as this collection covers the spectrum of fictional possibilities.From grief driving magic into new worlds in Another Path to Infinity to religion filling...

Merlyn carefully pushed the blackberry vine out of his way. Thing had thorns as long as his thumbnail, about a billion of them.This whole forest was creepy as hell. Both Pema and Ash seemed happy to be...

Jyoti bounced on her toes, eyeing the traffic whizzing by. Could she make a run for it?No, not a chance. Too many cars and too many people brought out by the sudden sunshine in Seattle.Ketut was going...

Mawunyo crouched low behind his shield. Nasim lay beneath the shifting tower of fire, seconds away from death.No.He would not allow it. Eight years married. Twenty-one years best friends. He would not...

Ivory lay at the edge of the bluff, the scrubby grass all around her itchy against her scales. Stupid elders and their stupid decisions about the stupid ancestors' bones.Only sensible thing to do would...

Gavin wasn’t terribly pleased to be tapped as unofficial Clan heir. He’d rather just learn how the business ran and help his relatives.But when his little sister Anwyn came home with dreadful injuries,...

Robin dug her toes into the cold, damp sand. The storm coming would wash away the wood, pull back the bits of shell.It would destroy the ashes that were all that was left of Ikram.A brawl. He'd died in...

Meyari McFarland gathers together six stories of romance in this second themed collection, Tales of Romance.Inside you will find dragon riders suddenly finding love and a sympathetic ear in Dragon Rider's...

Cahya sighed as she collapsed into the couch. Just the thought of having a couch made her skin itch.Or maybe that was the exhaustion. Six assassinations in as many days had worn her down, just like her...

Parris leaned back on xyr heels, studying xyr lovely little balcony garden. Stalks of corn with purple leaves towered over xyr head while beans with bright red leaves and electric blue flowers spilled...

Eko set xyr back against a block. Big, solid, wide enough to hide ten of xem.Needed it. Henny and Ade were missing in the mist, possibly dead because there weren't enough explosions going off. Not enough...