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Honey, Plums, and Cinnamon

Iyalah lost an eye in exchange for her Talent: the ability to smell love. When her mother falls ill, she and her shape-shifting companion seek out the paranoid despot who rules their city. For while he has money aplenty, he has no means to determine which of those close to him love him in truth and which of those seek to betray him. Iyalah does. But no palace is complete without its secrets... Originally published in Galaxy's Edge, Issue 9, July/August 2014

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Honey, Plums, and Cinnamon

The Unchanging Nature of Stones

Tahrie's family has an odd heritage: they fall in love with rocks, or trees, or storms. While they are able to call on these elements of nature for aid, they pay a heavy price: eventually becoming the element they love. It is a gift that has saved the village from the rising sea. But when Tahrie hears the call of one who would be her lover, she resists. Heeding the call would save her village yet again, but following in her family's footsteps also means losing herself forever. --- Originally published in Galaxy's Edge, Issue 5

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The Unchanging Nature of Stones

Love in Reality

David Verdin is the CEO of a company that sells as-seen-on-TV products. He wishes he were sitting on a pile of money, but he hasn't had a good idea in years, and he hasn't been exactly responsible with his earnings. So when his friend offers him the starring role on a reality television show--the Man of Your Dreams--David leaps at the chance. Claire Le Mayes works in a comic book shop, though she has greater aspirations. She longs to start a charity that gives out comic books to underprivileged children--if only she could find the funding. When auditions for The Man of Your Dreams come to her town, she tries out in the hopes of earning some publicity for her idea. Together, Claire and David conspire to fake a romance on television, and then to fake a nasty breakup in order to reap the tabloid profits. But when real feelings become involved, and David's ex-fiancee shows up, David and Claire both learn what it means to love in reality. --- LOVE IN REALITY is a romantic comedy screenplay.

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Love in Reality

Songweaver's Awakening

In Hajinn, singing isn't just forbidden: it's well known that it drives people mad. When Rajheem, a boy who loves music above all else, is plucked from his lowly existence to become the personal minstrel to Raja Helen, Third Seat of Hajinn, he is overwhelmingly grateful. As a foreigner, she holds none of the Hajinni superstitions toward music. What Rajheem initially considers a stroke of luck begins to seem like part of a frightening plan. There are Fair Folk in Helen's palace, creatures who walk the line between the world of the living and the world of the dead. They steal children away from their homes in the night, never to be seen again. As the people of Hajinn grow increasingly uneasy with their ruler’s inability to rid them of this infestation, a rumor begins that the Fair Folk were sent from the country to the east. At the same time, Rajheem realizes his singing talents go far beyond the power to create music. He can freeze people in their tracks, invoke fear in the hearts of his enemies, and even bend the fabric of reality itself. This gift embroils Rajheem in Helen's plot to usurp rule of Hajinn. As Rajheem struggles to control his newfound abilities and discover the reason his people abhor music, Helen orchestrates her plans to veer Hajinn toward war with a country it has been at peace with for hundreds of years.

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Songweaver's Awakening

The Butchers, The Menders

Those who bargain with butchers never return. Dalen lives in a land crisscrossed with interconnecting rivers, both above-ground and underground. When his sister goes missing, mere days before her intended marriage, Dalenâ€™s family assumes that she drowned. But the truth is far stranger than that. Narea, the daughter of a neighboring family, claims she hears his sisterâ€™s voice emanating from a sinkhole in her room, and that she is alive. Dalenâ€™s sister has bargained with butchers, a half-forgotten race that lives in the riversâ€™ depths. With the help of a magic onion, Dalen sets out to find her. But in order to do so, he must make his own bargainsâ€¦

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The Butchers, The Menders

Dragon Maiden

Love, promises, truth…and sacrifice. For Laise the dragon, life is measured in cycles. Every twenty-five years, the delmen hatch, eating everything and everyone in their path. Centuries past, Laise made a promise: before the hatching, she falls in love with a maiden sent by the city, and then kills her. Only an instrument carved from the bones of Laise’s loved ones can keep the delmen at bay. One life for the lives of all those in the city and a chance to love, if only briefly. It has always seemed a fair, if cruel, bargain. Until Elinor.

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Dragon Maiden