My story “The Crow Bridge” is out now in Luna Station Quarterly. It’s about memory, the power of storytelling, crows, fear of the unknown (and, for other characters, a desire to reach out and embrace the unknown), and maintaining a thread of hope for a different future.
This is my first published secondary world fantasy. I read a lot of secondary world fantasy, maybe more than any other SFF sub-genre by volume, but somehow my publications to date have been contemporary fantasy, slipstream, or (in one case) sci-fi, so I’m glad to have got something out there in a secondary world. Vaille and Embrit, the main characters, were some of my favourite characters to write so far, too. I started writing this story in 2019 so I’ve spent a fair amount of time with them and wanting to know their story was one of the things that kept bringing me back to it.
The story is structured with what might generally be referred to as a frame story, in which an old woman is telling a group of children a story from her own youth, but the frame is interwoven with the main story as the listeners (and one listener in particular) interject and ask questions.
Hope you all enjoy!