YA Short Stories
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Short, sneaky reads... 

 

 

The Love that Dolls Talk

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Sherwood Smith

 

 "Why is this doll by the front door?"

Mom and Dad at the Home Front

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Sherwood Smith

 

So...you're normal parents, and your kids show up with a magic wand... 

Faith

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Sherwood Smith

"My dog can talk."

 

 

 

"My dog can talk."

Hoard

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Steven Piziks

You never know what might show up in a library.

(This is the very first short story I ever sold. It went to Marion Zimmer Bradley for Sword and Sorceress IX, and when I got the news she wanted to buy it, I sat down. There was no chair behind me.)

Trollboy

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Steven Piziks

Trolls see more than mere truth.


Ghosts from an Enchanter Fleeing

graveyard_by_hero_of_the_grave[1].jpgGhosts from an Echanter Fleeing

Steven Piziks

Being a teenager is tough. Being a teenager necromancer is tougher.


Bedlam

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Steven Piziks

Magic exacts a price from everyone.


The Beginning of Tears

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Steven Piziks

Think carefully when you open a genie's bottle.


Patterns In the Chain

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Steven Piziks

Even ogres knit to pass the time.


Innkeeper's Solution
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by Steven Piziks

In this world, everyone gets a familiar.  Truly everyone.

 

Read More...

The Rose, the Rich Man, and Mother Berchte
rose.jpgThe Rose, the Rich Man, and Mother Berchte

by Steven Piziks

Santa Claus brings what you want.  Mother Berchte brings what you deserve.
A Quiet Knight's Reading

Knights and dragons aren't the only ones who want treasure.

by Steven Piziks

Round Dragon, Angry Tiger
Yin YangThe tiger and the dragon are ancient enemies in Japan.
 
by Steven Piziks
Thin Man
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 Modern children fear the monster under the bed or the creature in the closet. But Victorian climbing boys spend their days crawling through claustrophobic chimneys to scrub them clean and make their beds in piles of ashes. What would they fear?

by Steven Piziks

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