Dragon's Return


My short story "Not All That Tempts" appears in a short story compilation called the Dragon's Return that has just been PDF-published by Malhavoc Press, pending physical 'book publication' in a few months. My editor, Sue Cook, was a fabulous help in pulling the story together, and making sure it arrived where it actually wanted to go.




Here is a snippet of my story (just one of many, including a contribution from such luminaries as Kristine Kathryn Rusch!) that appears in The Dragon's Return:


NOT ALL THAT TEMPTS
Bruce R. Cordell

A spark of brutal memory bridged the gap between the figurine and the giant’s finger, anticipating his approaching grasp. Na-Devaon flinched with something like pain. His oversized hand inadvertently knocked the figure off the display shelf, then his eight-foot frame crumpled, and he followed the fallen figure down to the hard floor. . . .

Grief blasted past his barriers, sending Na-Devaon’s mind tumbling past the Four Principles—fire, air, earth, and water—and on into the ultimate ether: the akashic sea, in which all thoughts, words, and actions are recorded for all time. He tumbled past habitual moorings, accelerating into regions foreign to any that now lived. Never had he willingly ventured so far back into the akashic memory, so far beyond the sight of times and places with which he was at least passing familiar.


 


Posted: Thu - January 27, 2005 at 12:36 PM          

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