Author: Jess Mahler
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The Bargain (S4, Cover)
Continuing the story of The Bargain, Jahlene and Mattin are taking on the fae court and their mutual enemy, Count Oeloff.
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Planting Life in a Dying City: Kyawtchais (S4, E4)
Content notes: internalized ableism That day set the pattern for the coming days. During the day they were back to work on the walls. On some days, the gruff-one and tall Lefeng stayed home, so the work went quicker. Kyawtchais thought ey could feel the family weaving itself together even as the walls rose around…
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Snippet Week Day 6: Ulfsark
This is one I played with several years ago and put away because I couldn’t figure out how to make the story work. I think with the new growth-centered structures I’m exploring, it will go a lot better. It was inspired by an essay I stumbled across, proposing that the berserk and ulfsark of Norse…
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Snippet Week Day 5: The Grasslands
New story — a post-portal epic fantasy. Ten years ago Chana had found herself and her infant daughter in a strange world surrounded by strange people. She managed to build a life, a home, and a family in this strange place. Now they are being destroyed. The Grasslands is a working title. The Grasslands Episode…
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Snippet Week Day 4: Bound by His Oath Sequel
Bound by His Oath was and remains one of my popular stories and several folks have asked about a sequel. Good news: It’s coming. Just a matter of when. I don’t have a snippet for this one, but here’s the gist: Sir John is coping with life under the lady-witch. (The fact that his calling…
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Snippet Week Day 3: A Smear of Blood
A Smear of Blood is a high fantasy story a petty thief who must /become/ much more to stop the destruction of the goddes. His feet and hands were shredded, but he barely noticed as he slammed into the alter. Unthinkingly, reflexively, he murmered a half-forgotten childhood prayer as he levered himself up. Angry muttering…
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Snippet Week Day 2: Next Came Respect
Next Came Respect is the sequel to First Came Trust. Like First, it’ll be a short story, a single season with less than 10 episodes. Next Came Respect Snippet Dalma didn’t care what these people called it. They had made eir sibling a slave and made Lilah’s slavery the price for Dalma and Sherzod’s safety.…
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Snippet Week Day 1: Meadowsweet Season 2
Hey folks. I’ve afk this week and decided this was the perfect time for a little detour/sightseeing trip. With Epsilon wrapped up, there’s room in the schedule for a new story. In fact, depending on how things shake out over the next 15 months there will be room for up to six new stories. This…
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Last Lady of Lună (S2, Season Finale)
Season Content Notes: violence, sex (fade to black), knife play (implied), blood play Nastasia Marcus and Leyla had just finished explaining why we couldn’t trust anyone. Why even Luna Clan might be a threat to me. I needed to spend more time talking with them. We had plans to make — how we’d handle a…
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Planting Life in a Dying City: Kyawtchais (S4, E3)
In the evening, Kyawtchais joined the family at their hearth for dinner. As they ate, the small-one, once-weaver asked tall-Lefeng to tell a tale of the mountains, of how the tall-one killed the great cat whose skin made the small-one’s new cloak. Kyawtchais’ fingers started dancing at that. Ey had noticed the cloak, made of…
