Jesphyr woke to an alarm. Not the clanging, abrasive alarm of emergency; but a soft, cheery, unrelenting and patient trill that she...

The hill people were not always Melders. After strife on the coast forced the people to disperse inland, some chose the hills. Preferring...

The courtyard was a fuzzy dappled version of itself. The boughs of the trees crisscrossing the space blocked most of the sunlight, and Jesph

“Jes? Are you awake?” Jes wanted to summon a snort for Hash, but that was too much emotion right now. She sat on the bed, in much the...

Long ago, before the Melders and the Quarrymen were one people, two brothers were working up in the mines (The Melders came from the hill...

When you stand on a precipice, upon the very edge of something and nothing, It's hard to drag your eyes from the scenery. You stand,...

The Festival of Solem was taking over the streets of Bashyr, as it would in every settlement and planet across the system. Golden banners...

It began to rain lightly as evening settled, which Sehkma said was a good omen. Hash put out the banner announcing the telling hour, and...

With the siege of our home, and the scourging of the Mason kingdom, I fear that knowledge of our history might be lost. And you, my...

Jes crossed the street toward a brightly colored complex, with a long, heavy awning that depicting people gathered around a boiling...

Jes ducked between groups of people, winding her way deeper into the market throng even as it dwindled away with the daylight. The market...

I close my eyes and dream, and in that fog-walled room I meet a man, sitting at a table and drinking his coffee. He talks to me, as we...

“Beside the trickling water of the sacred fountains, wrapped in the soft, cool light of the moon, Did Cicera and Artem meet. It was a...