Tag Archives: Excerpt

Martisset stared at the black screen. The game could be restarted from the beginning, all her folly erased. No. It was dishonest to pretend that hadn’t happened. The story had been cut off mid-play, but in real life, behind the … Continue reading →

The winter evening had grown blue, and the threatened snow-squall now wrapped the island in its embrace. Veils of snow caught the faint illumination from the banquet-room as the Saiph patronage, from Martisset the Elder and Tethys down to Naime-Yasmin’s … Continue reading →

Martisset knew the story, as did every child on Karis. One journey-ship among many had found the Original Jump; no one knew what had happened to the others. One of all the ships that set out from the Original World, after … Continue reading →

Martisset’s ninth name-day was observed in the dark of the moon following the Feast of Landfall. She and her namesake did the devotions in the enclosure of Martis-Mortis. He instructed her parents to take her to the Shipwrights’ Chapel in … Continue reading →

“Low angled light,” Tethys said, “and the aerial view. Yuki-Iskri found more than one Lost Colony that way. The first few times our terraformers saw one, it was the chance of surveying near sunrise or sunset.”  Ghosts appeared at dawn … Continue reading →

In the cult of the Goddess of the Ancient Sea, and the shadow cult of Martis-Mortis, one meditated on the divine twins, Midnight and Noonday, shadow and sun. Shadow vanished at Noonday, without having gone away, and Midnight was all shadow. … Continue reading →

The last light had faded in the west, behind the barely visible shoreline of the Inland Sea.  Martisset walked down the path to the apartments of Martisset the Elder, her mother holding her left hand, and her father holding her … Continue reading →

Akiko and Sita played a game of Worst Case (this time it was a cargo-landing disaster) while Yasmin tied off the knots, over and under. Jehen, who could read now, told her that the sailors of Karis and the Original … Continue reading →