CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

The first of this month's short story releases is now available on pre-order. You can find the link to all its current platforms on this Books2Read page : https://books2read.com/u/bW8wZ1 .   What's it about? Harper's Choice is an updated version of the urban-fantasy science-fiction short story found in the Pixie-Dust Dreaming collection. It is the tale of a young woman who is rescued by an elf, approved of by the pixies, and protected by the unicorns. Harper returns to the world of man, to find it greatly changed.Fate has drawn her dance card, and rudely changed the tune. Will she surrender to its whims? Or find the courage to choose the next few dance steps for herself?   How does it Start?   “The world turns differently for each of us, and we have no choice but to turn with it, to take its hand and dance the next set of steps.” Those were the words Argyllis had lived by, and by those words he had died. I stared down at his body, and thought what a liar he had been. ...

This week’s short story takes us from Harper's early days in the Paranormal Operations Squad where unicorns can lead to all kinds of trouble to a point in her future where rescuing pixies leads her to discovering just how differently time moves in the elven lands. Welcome to Harper's Choice . “The world turns differently for each of us, and we have no choice but to take its hand and dance the next set of steps.” (Argyllis, 2017) Harper disagreed. Rescuing pixies from drug-runners, and working alongside unicorns and elves was part of her job. The world had turned, and she had chosen, but, when she is badly injured and taken into the elven realms, Harper finds she has a whole new set of steps to choose—and that time, indeed, moves differently in the Other World. Harper's Choice is available as a stand-alone short story at the following links: books2read.com/u/31xPnn . You can also find Kristine Kathryn Rusch's latest free short story ov...

This week’s short story takes us from the far-flung romance of an interplanetary couple and a rescue from invading trolls to the kinds of trouble that following unicorns can lead to Welcome to Harper & the Unicorn . When Harper goes after a lone unicorn without back-up she’s breaking every rule, and none. The only questions are: will her partner get to her before things go totally to pieces, and exactly how much havoc can one lone unicorn and a P.O.S. officer create before back-up arrives? Harper & the Unicorn is available as a stand-alone short story at the following links: books2read.com/u/38rqqL . You can also find Kristine Kathryn Rusch's latest free short story over on her blog: kriswrites.com . Why don't you go and check it out?