The Map Room

Steven Popkes

The Indecorous Rescue of Clarinda Merwin

Or, Reader, I Laid My Eggs in Him

Brenda W. Clough

A Regency maiden, a caddish suitor, and an innovative rescue!

Doctor Couney's Island

Steven Popkes

Coney Island is just stage craft. But people live behind the stage.

Devil's Bargain

Judith Tarr

To win a war, a king will take any ally he can find--even the Father of Lies.

I Sing of a Maiden

Judith Tarr

Part of a writer's job and privilege is to travel in time--sometimes even literally.

Persepolis

Judith Tarr

A haunted place, a prophet in search of revelation, a spirit of fire

Sitting Shiva

Judith Tarr

This was supposed to be a different story. The war, the soldier, the boy she left behind her—the usual. In the way stories have, it mutated. The old story is still embedded in the new one, but there turned out to be a whole lot more that needed to be said about Sarge and her war.

by Brenda Clough

Fantasy fiction is escapism, so we are told.

by Pati Nagle

This story first appeared in The Blue and The Gray Undercover, an anthology of Civil War spy stories edited by the wonderful Ed Gorman. 

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