IASFA Promotion - Fantasy Short Stories

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This month's IASFA promotion focuses on fantasy short stories!

Whether it's wizards, elves, fae, or dragons, you can join the IASFA mailing list and find some discounted or free short stories to explore. You can find the short stories, here: https://iasfa.org/may25/. Some are free, and others range between 0.99 to 2.99, but they are all fantasy, and all short.

 My two offerings for this month are:

Gulvane and the Dragon: in which an elven wizards faces the ghosts of his past, and the potential of a future unwritten...and a dragon seeks a familiar.

It Starts: Gulvane walked the corridors of his mind, going deep into himself to remember who he was, and explore who he might become. The years of an elf were long, many more times longer than the span of an average mortal, and Gulvane was reaching another century, his third as a wizard, his seventh as an elf. In that time, he’d lived a lifetime in each of four different occupations.

Walking down the timber-lined hallway, Gulvane traced a hand along the walls, stopping at each of the three doors that kept the memories and skills that had made up his past. The first door was an oaken gold and adorned by a simple spray of leaves and flowers. A small gray-furred creature peered out from beneath the blossoms, its vivid green eyes touched with blue and gold.


And...

Everything Has Its Price: in which a squire tells the tale of a blind bard.

It Starts: “And what would you offer for a place by our fire?” the merchant-guildsman demanded.

I let my eyes travel doubtfully over his portly, dust-covered frame, and ignored the knight who’d ridden up behind me.

“A tale,” I replied.

The knight snorted, and rode past to make his camp not far from where the caravan had chosen to spend the night. I saw the guildsman look from me to the knight and caught the gleam of interest that sprang to his eye before he could hide it.

He said nothing of the knight, however.

“A tale,” he repeated, eyeing me with the same doubt I had shown of him.

A murmur rose from the men behind him. Roughly-dressed and with faces hardened by weather and privation, it seemed they thought the journey dull enough to warrant a tale.

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