April 2023 Short Story Poll (Patreon)

Only two choices this month- my brain is FRIED from finishing The Last Echo of the Lord of Bells. Which, btw, is sitting in the hands of my beta readers as we speak, and initial responses have been positive!

The options this time are two non-Aetheriad works. Both are the kind of short stories inspired directly by another author's book I was reading at the time- Howl's Moving Castle, by Dianna Wynne Jones, for First and Last;  and Kraken, by China Mieville, for Theomachies Plural.

• First and Last (Non-Aetheriad): The first and last acts of wizards are powerful things, in the flying gemstone city of Nimbus. And on the day the evil wizard Saxus Gold-Eye is due to return, the student wizard who last defeated him seems determined to waste her first act of the day. (Inspired by Dianna Wynne Jones.)
• Theomachies Plural (Non-Aetheriad): There have been a lot of good reasons through history to rebel against the heavens. This foul-mouthed succubus from upstate New York, however, is joining the revolution because she can't afford her damned (literally) student loans. (Inspired by China Mieville. Very foul language.)