Hart & Boot & Other Stories collects thirteen stories of love, death and monsters, including new story "Komodo," a tale of lizards, sex magic and dangerous men. The title story, "Hart & Boot," was chosen by Michael Chabon for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories: 2005.Contents:Hart & Boot...
The bad girl of the magical underworld is back and badder than everSomeone wants Marla Mason dead. Usually that’s not news. As chief sorcerer of Felport, someone always wants her dead. But this time she’s the target of a renegade assassin who specializes in killing his victims over days, months, ...
There were scores of people in the room, most already seated, a few standing and mingling in little groups, the women in scarves and veils, the men in loose pants with broad sashes, except for those in monk’s robes in various hues, doubtless denoting their religious and martial affiliations. Rodr...
Marzi let them into her apartment, and Lindsay went straight to the kitchen. “We’re drinking your wine, Marzipan,” she called. Marzi flopped onto her couch and tried to relax, tried to pretend the world hadn’t gone insane by degrees over the past days. “Make mine a double, barkeep.” Jonathan stoo...
Zaltys said, and loosed an arrow.The shaft of the arrow stuck in the soft jungle ground a foot away from the boar. The feathered fletching of the arrow, taken from a colorful jungle bird, stuck up jauntily.The spirit boar groaned in a weary, put-upon way, and stepped closer to the base of the tre...
During the ride he’d tried to wrap his head around what he’d seen, and he’d passed beyond disbelief into a kind of profound numbness. Bridget was dead. She’d jumped from the bridge. That chapter of his life was now completely closed. He trudged from the bus stop down by the high school on Park Bo...