Seeking revenge against the boy spreading lies about her at school, Rachel's attempt to make a golem goes awry.Or does it?As disasters strike first her school and then her town, Rachel is forced to confront her own need for vengeance and the soul-revealing questions of what is right and what is wrong.But, with her best friend not speaking to her and her parents too distracted to listen, she's finding it difficult to untangle the mess on her own.Time is ticki...

When Charity's health starts to decline, she moves in with her sister Marvel. A long-time itinerant, Charity brings little with her but her memories and a few trinkets.Outside the house, the sea pulses in and out. Charity settles into the room Marvel has cleared for her. As best she can, she holds onto her recollections of the past and family.The days pulse in and out like the sea.While on the surface, Marvel's invitation seems generous and good, what lies beneath i...

Javi knows all about the gods, villagers, travelers, and the pious.He's heard the stories. But the stories are nothing more than desert hallucinations.They aren't real.Or are they?Released from prison to die, Javi encounters a stranger who starts a game that forces him to rethink everything he knows.Three questions are all Javi needs to survive.But after what he's suffered, he doesn't know if he wants to play. Holding his own life in his hand...

Bioengineering has come a long way.And Junior is the government's top choice to take astral projection to actual projection.If jumping through metaphysical hoops means he'll get his freedom, well, that would be great, wouldn't it? Not having been born yesterday, Junior isn't naïve enough to think that'll ever happen.Well.Never mind what lies he's being fed and what promises he's being offered, he's got something else in plan for himself. But to achieve it, h...

If Sha had her way, she'd be out fighting manticores or tormenting dragons. At the least, she'd be curing plagues and taming pestilences.But no, her first act as a wizard is to chase down a stupid banshee vision.It's not like she can ignore it. Because there's the slightest chance the kingdom is actually being threatened. And she can't have that.Besides, if she doesn't handle it some other stupid wizard will sweep in and snatch the glory from her hands.She d...

"This is the story of everything that happened after my friend Kit had a meltdown at school.”Best friends Mila and Kit spend their days doing fun things: they go to the skate park, play Truth or Dare, and pet the neighborhood cats. Mila’s favorite thing to do is draw her Shy Cat comics. But Kit’s is probably eating afternoon snacks. The first time Kit went to Mila’s house, he ate three bananas in a row without asking! Mila thinks rude is rude, but her mom says that...

Lied to about magic and angry about it, an untrained and strong-willed witch is sent to learn from a teacher whose methods go against all her impulsive and fiery instincts.

What is the responsibility, or the task of the arts as we face environmental crisis?Ecologies in Practice is an edited collection of dynamic and multi-formatted contributions that explore the ways in which cultural production informs perceptions, communications, and knowledge of environmental distress in a Canadian context, pointing to the significance of the arts in the creation and sharing of crucial counter narratives and alternative possibilities. ...

Legends and common knowledge don't always agree, but when it comes to wizards the facts are not so far from the stories.Both say that tunics are made from wild magic. Both say that a len who catches, tames, and puts on a tunic is a wizard. And both say that a wizard is named and known by his deeds. Take Duin the Fearless or Bjarne the Vengeful as examples.My name is Hol and I am a wizard of the kingdom of Dar.Though this is true, what name will come from my deeds is...

If rock-throwing, magic-filled Sha-li didn't keep her promises, she'd abandon the witch she's apprenticed to and go hunt down the curse-wielding dragon she swore to find. But her word means something to her and she's determined to stick out her education.Everything is going fine. Just irritatingly fine until she's forced into a magical agreement with a seed-planting len from the north end of nowhere.The problem is, the terms for the agreement are vague at best and stupidly ...

The Fortunetelling Wizard is back in The Fractured Mountain!Hol would hate it if his mother was right. She always said wizard magic was dangerous and he would be better off pursuing another path.But he is the first fortunetelling wizard in over 800 years, most well-known for his fortunetelling though ridiculed by many (mostly the other wizards) for his consideration of the elements, and he revels in his wizardry.Never in all his years as a wizard has Hol failed to g...

It is common knowledge that the ways of dragons are their own. Everyone knows this. But even so, when the citadel of Messhlun, the kingdom north of Dar, is overrun by dragons it isn't clear why or what exactly it is they want.What's even less clear is why the dragons won't negotiate with the local wizards.What's even less clear than that is why they've asked for Hol the Fortunetelling Wizard by name.But, since it is equally common knowledge that the ways of wizards ...