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A Quiet Knight's Reading
by Steven Piziks
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When you can't keep up with all the knights trying to steal your treasure, you just have to get creative. [Author Note: This story is a prequel to "Hoard," the very first short story I ever sold. I always wondered how you get a dragon to change professions. Now I know.] 1998
Words: 2267 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Chain, Link, Fence
by Steven Piziks
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The fact that the author teaches sex education has nothing to do with the writing of this story. Nope. Nothing at all. 1997
Words: 1292 - Reading Time: 3-5 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Innkeeper's Solution
by Steven Piziks
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In this world, everyone gets a familiar. Everyone. 1997
Words: 5646 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Thin Man
by Steven Piziks
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Children fear the monster under the bed or the creature in the closet. But Victorian climbing boys, the poorest of the poor, have neither beds nor closets. What sort of monster would they fear? [Author Note: "Thin Man" was inspired by a pair of poems by William Blake, both titled "The Chimney Sweeper." The bits of information the editors mentioned about climbing boys struck me as both horrifying and fascinating. I read more on the subject and, after some research, came to realize these boys had ... more info>> 1997
Words: 7218 - Reading Time: 20-28 min.
Category: Fantasy
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The Rose, the Rich Man, and Mother Berchte
by Steven Piziks
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Santa Claus? Please. 1997
Words: 4410 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Round Dragon, Angry Tiger
by Steven Piziks
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Dragons and tigers are traditional enemies in medieval Japan. So what happens when the one becomes a student of the other? 2000
Words: 6485 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Patterns in the Chain
by Steven Piziks
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Even ogres have grandmothers who knit. They just knit something else. 2000
Words: 2177 - Reading Time: 6-8 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Fatherhood
by Steven Piziks
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Forcing a sylph to pay child support is always a tricky business. 1996
Words: 6058 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
Category: Fantasy
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