Short Story

A defrocked Jesuit resolved eleven hybrids on the Church's word. The lodger at his kitchen table is the twelfth, the priest, or the assassin. A standalone theological-noir short story in The Covenant Files.

A Council Hunter alone at an Idaho safehouse opens a wooden box hand-delivered by a half-possessed stranger, and the last rite the dying network can still perform comes due before sunrise. A World on Fire short story.

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

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.