Once upon a time, a girl was sent to live with a woman not her mother, and two others not her sisters—none of whom desired her to attend the fey lord’s ball.
(A dark fantasy novella of about 22,800 words, or about 80 minutes of reading for the average reader.)
Warning: Contains mature themes as found in the "Sleeping Beauty" folktale.... [click here for more]
All kindness is not wise.
Third’s clutch escaped their home universe years ago, before any of them were old enough to legally take a name and to stop having to risk themselves to keep others alive. She’s still too young for that, and the alternate version of herself that she lives with calls her “Kitten”.
First and Second, the other survivors in her clutch, live... [click here for more]
All harm is not malicious.
TamLin grabbed the opportunity to leave his native universe to escape his mother. Living in another universe as an illegal immigrant is the only way he can outmaneuver others’ efforts to puppeteer him.
He’s a sensate, able to detect and interpret eddies of psychic energy and space-time without the need of tools and technology. That’s a valuable... [click here for more]
Once upon a time, a merchant had three daughters, and none of them with the same mother—rather, he had two daughters and a granddaughter, and all three hated and feared him.
(A novelette of about 11,600 words, or about 40 minutes of reading time for the average reader.)
Warning: Contains mature themes on par with the "Donkeyskin" folktale.
followed... [click here for more]
All aid is not kind.
After Raleigh stumbled out of her native universe, she suppressed the memory files of her time as a soldier. She and two other refugees from other universes rent an apartment together, pooling resources and helping each other cope with living in a somewhen other than the ones they’d grown up in.
But their native universes haven’t forgotten them. Raleigh... [click here for more]