Storm Dancer
by Rayne Hall
Six short stories from the mystical Bronze Age world of
the dark epic fantasy novel Storm Dancer. The stories span the fantasy and
horror genres, varying in tone from light to dark, from quirky to disturbing.
Some have been previously published in magazines, ezines, collections and
anthologies, others appear here for the first time. British spellings.
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Publisher: Scimitar Press
Length: 469 Pages
Sub-Genres: Epic Fantasy
Excerpt
Suddenly the air sang
with danger. A rider vaulted off his grey horse. The sight of his moss-green
tunic and plaited belt hit her guts. This was one of the Consort's henchmen, a
thousand miles from the palace. Had he come to arrest her?
She took a step back,
poised for flight.
“A reading, please, seer.” His voice was deep like a
slow-flowing river, smooth on top but dangerous beneath.
She allowed herself to
meet his eyes, as if she had nothing to fear from his kind. Although his mouth
smiled, his eyes were bitter-dark like olives. An aura of vibrant intelligence
was enveloped in intense bitterness, and under his cheerful courtesy, pain
radiated from him like heat searing from a fire.
Her instincts screamed
at her to pull free from the dangerous power before it could burn her, but a
genuine wandering seer would not panic at the sight of a palace official, and
bolting would draw his suspicion.
She forced herself to
stay in her role. “Your hands,” she demanded, careful to hide her accent.
The hands were wrong:
Brown, with short dirty nails, calloused, rough and ridged with old scars, they
did not belong to a courtier, nor even to a guard.
At the moment of touch,
shock surged through her, sending tingles all over her body. Her stomach felt
as if a pestle was running along the inside of a stone mortar. Several futures
flashed by her vision, too fast to hold, then his past dragged her in. She
heard screams of terror and pain, and smelled the stench of burning flesh. This
man was burning in the fire of his own soul.
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Rayne Hall has published more than forty books under different
pen names with different publishers in different genres, mostly fantasy, horror
and non-fiction. Recent books include Storm
Dancer (dark epic fantasy novel), Six
Scary Tales Vol 1, 2 and 3 (mild horror stories), Six Historical Tales (short stories), Six Quirky Tales (humorous fantasy stories), Writing Fight Scenes, The World-Loss Diet and Writing Scary Scenes (instructions for authors).
She holds a college degree in publishing management and a masters
degree in creative writing. Currently, she edits the Ten Tales series of multi-author short story anthologies: Bites: Ten Tales of Vampires, Haunted: Ten
Tales of Ghosts, Scared: Ten Tales of Horror, Cutlass: Ten Tales of Pirates,
Beltane: Ten Tales of Witchcraft, Spells: Ten Tales of Magic, Undead: Ten Tales
of Zombies and more.
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Six
short stories from the mystical Bronze Age world of the dark epic fantasy novel
Storm Dancer. The
stories span the fantasy and horror genres, varying in tone from light to dark,
from quirky to disturbing. Some
have been previously published in magazines, ezines, collections and
anthologies, others appear here for the first time. British
spellings.
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