Description
Pageantry, pomp, pretense, and peril-"The General's Turn," originally published in The Deadlands, drew readers into the dark world of a ceremony where Death herself might choose to join the audience... or step onto the stage.
Award-winning author Premee Mohamed presents three brand new stories set in this morally ambiguous world of war and magic. In "One Message Remains," Major Lyell Tzajos leads his team on a charity mission through the post-armistice world of East Seudast, exhuming the bones and souls of dead foes for repatriation. But the buried fighters may have one more fight left in them-and they have chosen their weapons well.
In "The Weight of What is Hollow," Taya is the latest apprentice of a long-honored tradition: building the bone-gallows for prisoners of war. But her very first commission will pit her skills against both her family and her oppressor.
Finally, in "Forsaking All Others," ex-soldier Rostyn must travel the little-known ways by night to avoid his pursuers, for desertion is punishable by death. As he flees to the hoped-for sanctuary of his grandmother's village, he is joined by a fellow deserter-and, it seems, the truth of a myth older than the land itself.
Author: Premee Mohamed
Publisher: Psychopomp
Published: 02/11/2025
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9798891160101
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
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