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OF SWORDS AND SPELLS
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Here are some excerpts. Read and see!
Nameless Magery, Del Rey, July
1998, ISBN 0-345-42430-1
From the first chapter, "In Which I Don't Eat A Rat"
It was winter. I was half-starved and so wet my
armpits were starting to mildew. My father's finger bone hanging on
a thin metal chain was the only thing left of my life--all seventeen years
of it, but that was forever to me then--and it seemed my future was going
to end shortly in a dismal pile of my own bones. . .
[read some more of the first chapter]
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Of Swords And Spells, Del Rey,
December 1998, ISBN 345-42432-8
From the first chapter, "The Salute (Malka, Indicating
Intent)"
The big dark room echoed with the silvery sound of moving feet and blunted
weapons striking against each other. Light came in the high windows and got
lost in the moving shadows below. All around the circle containing my teacher
and me, the students moved back and forth in pairs, dancing with no music,
trying to hurt each other. In the center, we stood still, facing one another,
teacher and student, surly gorilla man looming over cantankerous monkey
girl. [read on]
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My short story: "The Afterlife," was published in the Fall 1996 issue of Aboriginal Science Fiction, and is a trifle different. To get a taste, click here.
E-mail: dmturner@dmturner.org
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