Short Stories

A branded soldier's last confession, and the country priest who has to decide what to do with the truth. A Verada Requiem side story.

An ash-marked apprentice takes up the slow knife for her first solo killing — until the condemned man says the one thing only she can hear.

A Covenant Files short: Father Crane resolved eleven hybrids on Church word. His lodger may be the twelfth — or the assassin.

A Council Hunter at an Idaho safehouse opens a wooden box from a half-possessed stranger — and the last hunt starts again.

A free Last Light short story to read this weekend — and Last Light in the Dark lands Monday, June 15. Pre-order's open.

Sixty years after the bombardment, salvage captain Ria Velko cuts into a dead colony — and finds something the Ministry never meant found.

Four years after Tondo, Father Paladina finally writes the case file: the wrong rite, the quiet mother, and the mentor left behind.

The night before conscription, a Karthian hedge witch reads the coals for mothers of boys marched to war — and sees mouths under the world.

A Forest Service ranger's Tuesday morning stop at a small Rocky Mountain town goes wrong. A side tale from the Raven's Peak era of the World on Fire trilogy.