Kirjahaku

Events echo across worlds.A potential devastating plague on one version of Earth? A serial killer influencing other killers, from Earth to Earth? An Earth where magic co-exists with science?Anything can--and will--reflect back to Prime, Earth Prime.The Bureau of Interworld Stabilization ensures that Prime remains just that: stable.Free of unnecessary, unwanted disruption-or as much as BIS. By paying attention, identifying the small things, and intervening.It takes a unique person to succeed as a BIS Field Agent, trained to travel to the alternate worlds beyond the Gates. It takes brains. Adaptability. And courage.And a very special person to operate those Gates, to anchor the energies of the universe.Don't forget about the support staff. Trained to identify the critical flap of a butterfly's wing.All linked by the genetic quirk to see the Gates, travel the Gates, and work the Gates.Meet the Agents of BIS.

Meet Dinah Lee Wright, sorceress for hire, in this collection of five short stories.She can't help but get into trouble over her head, even as she traverses the fantastical landscape of the American Weird West.Evil sorcesses? Check.Evil ice demons? Check.Adorable Pekingese puppies? Check.But all she's searching for is a place to call home.Will you search with her?

Continue the adventures of Dinah Lee Wright, sorceress for hire, in this collection of five new short stories.Dinah can't help but get into trouble over her head, even as she traverses the fantastical landscape of the American Weird West.Thunderbirds soaring through monsoon skies.Child-stealing monsters.Demons from another world.Doesn't matter she's a powerful sorceress in her own right. Traveling through an American Southwest that isn't quite ours, filled with terrible and magnificent creatures, with people evil and saintly.Dinah's still searching for a home. For a chosen family.Will you search with her?

This collection includes seven short sweet romance stories. Meet-cutes galore A Snowman Made of Sand Can young rocket engineer Eliza find love, adrift and alone in California?Love in the Time of COVID 19 Even in the midst of the lockdown and Heavy Metal Happy Hour, love can be found.A Sip to Her HeartRetired ER doc Lillian finds out that life, and love, isn't always scheduled.The Cats of His Heart Joe had room in his heart for just one cat, his beloved Lucy. Is there room for another--and maybe a special woman too?Knitting Into Love Yarn-store owner Lydia just wants to get her knitting pattern written up--then love enters the Cozy Me Cozy Ewe.Cowboy Boots and Tacos Can Kate learn to embrace Christmas and her found family, and maybe make room for love?Cabernet Kisses Sometimes, when everything is going really wrong...things can go right. Especially when you have a nice glass of Cabernet.

This collection includes six short stories in the Jolene Tomberlin urban fantasy series.The Gratitude of the OceanThe Little Animals, the Vermin, of VeniceThe Love of the SeaThe Sacrifice of the Modern WorldThe Salt Side of BrassandThe Seduction of the Sea

This collection includes seven short stories in the Jolene Tomberlin urban fantasy series.A Life Worth SavingSalt in the StormThe Serpent in the ShallowsDrink Deeply, My Love, Drink DeeplyThe Darkness at DepthBurnin' Out the BadandThe Body of Evidence, set in Jolene's world.

This collection includes eight short science fiction stories.Everything Except HumansI'm the Maintenance ManThe Death of Workshop BettyOf Parrots and PigeonsThe Death of InnocentsThe First Day in Her New LifeThe Medic of the Crow City Mining Coopand The Mermaid of Ellis Prime

This collection includes six fantasy (historical, contemporary, urban) short stories featuring female protagonists.Magic of Song and Lightning; Victory Girl; Down to the Heart; The Life of Stuffed Toys; The Songs of Their Lives; and; The Monkey's JournalTravel from 1930s Appalachia to modern day California in this collection of fantasy short stories. What if the book women, those intrepid librarians delivering materials to their charges on horseback, brought more than mundane knowledge to their patrons? Tomboy Ruthie realizes what she truly desires when she meets a Gancanagh, or love talker.Darla is writing a new ending to murder ballads, those tales of deceit, betrayal, and death.Who hasn't lost pets over the years? The pain of losing them is the price for the joy they give us. Different people have different ways of remembering their beloved cats and dogs and other creatures. And some are magic.A triathlon fairytale? Swim, bike, and run your heart out.​​​​​​​Books and cats and wishes and guilt -- a writer's Monkey Paw.

Like The Monkey's Journal, this collection is primary fantasy, but the stories are perhaps a bit more eclectic.The Kaleidoscope Jaguars of the Jungles of Mexicatl and The Wretched Sunlight of Shasta follow a self-described low-level sorceress to different worlds. I've included a bonus snippet of travel preparations prior to The Kaleidoscope Jaguars.Crate Training is a a piece of werewolf flash fiction that I entered into a contest. It didn't win the reader's choice that week, but the website editors did choose to include it in their yearly collection. It's cute and, well, biting.The Body Mage's Foot, an alternate world fantasy, is just plain weird. Borders on light body horror. If you're squeamish, skip this one. Or you'll never look at meatballs the same way again.Blood Tracks explores one young woman's experience with genome-changing nanobytes. I really like Bettina-I hope I'll be "seeing" and writing more of her story.The Girl Who Created a Mechanico Menagerie is based on one of my favorite fairy tales, The Boy Who Drew Cats, and is an alternate world fantasy as well.

Stories include Knitting Hope, Knitting Out The Sorrow, and The Story of a Skein. Knitting patterns include Janie's Diamonds Hat, Janie's Chevron Hat, and the Micaceous Cowl.When you think about it, just the act of manipulating two needles and some string and making a hat, or a scarf, or mittens, is magic in itself.Us knitters know that.Three short stories and three knitting patterns round out this collection.The patterns (two hats and a cowl) are suitable for beginning knitters comfortable knitting in the round.If you like these patterns, please check out my knitting website, sunsetcat.com.

Over the past year, I've published a collection of short stories (or, as in the case of KnitWitch, a combination of stories and knitting patterns) each month.The genres have ranged from romance (A Snowman Made of Sand) to fantasy (the two weird west Dinah collections, the two urban fantasy Jolene collections, The Kaleidoscope Jaguars of the Jungles of Mexicatl, The Monkey's Journal), from science fiction (Gates of Wonder, The Mermaid of Ellis Prime) to mystery/crime (One Plus One Equals More).That's a lot of different types of stories I've collected some of my favorite stories across the board and included them in this sampler collection.Stories included: A Snowman Made of SandThe Medic of the Crow City Mining Co-opThe Fox SorcererGratitude of the OceanThe Final Test of Maria Ramirez