Short Story

A branded soldier's last confession, and the country priest who has to decide what to do with the truth. A 4,000-word side story from the world of Verada Requiem.

Six weeks before Harper Reeves discovers the cattle formations in Whisper Ridge, a seventy-two-year-old widowed rancher becomes the first human to make quiet, unreported contact with something bleeding through a reality fracture. A side tale from the world of The Unseen.

A World of Shadows short story. Four years before the basement at Saint Joseph's, Father Niccolo Paladina stood in a shanty in Tondo with the wrong rite in his hands. He has never written the case file. He writes it now.

A side tale from The Ashen Kingdoms. The night before conscription, an old hedge witch reads the embers for the mothers of boys being marched off to war — and sees the 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.