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Fire & Ice
Deep under the City of Glass in the frozen southern land, an age-old machine called the Heart of the City radiates a power which locals call icefire. Most citizens are immune to it, but a few, always born with physical disabilities, can bend it to their will. For fifty years, the ruling Eagle Knights have killed these Imperfects, fearing the return of the old royal family, who used icefire to cut out people’s hearts, turning them into ghostly servitors.
The old king’s grandson Tandor only sees the good things icefire brought: power and technology now forgotten while the people of the south live in dire poverty. He’s had enough of seeing his fellow kinsfolk slaughtered by ignorant Knights, of Imperfect babies being abandoned on the ice floes to be eaten by wild animals. His grandfather’s diary tells him how to increase the beat of the Heart the first step to making the land glorious once more. Arrogant as he is, he sets the machine in motion. All he needs is an army of Imperfect servitors to control the resulting power.
Isandor is Imperfect, an ex-Knight apprentice, betrayed by his best friend and running for his life.
The queen Jevaithi is Imperfect, living like a prisoner amidst leering Knights, surviving only because the common people would rebel if their beloved queen were harmed.
Both are young and desperate and should be grateful that Tandor wants to rescue them from their hopeless situations. Or so he thinks. The youngsters, however, have no inclination to become heartless ghosts, but while they defy Tandor, the Heart beats, and he alone cannot control its power.
Published stories
This peaceful state of war - First place, Writers Of The Future Contest second quarter 2010
The Donner Equilibrium - Finalist Writers of the Future Contest first quarter 2010
Published stories:
His Name In Lights - Universe Annex of the Grantville Gazette 33
Black Dragon - Edge of Propinquity October 2010
Metal Dragon - Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 46 September 2010
To look at the sky - Semaphore SF September 2010
Little Boy Lost - Midnight Echo 4 June 2010
From the parrot's mouth - Beyond Centauri July 2010
Luminescence - Martian Wave 2010
Prototype - MBrane-SF 18
Trassi Udang - Belong anthology April 2010
Out of Here - MBrane-SF December 2009
Legal Aliens - Semaphore SF December 2009
Raven's Call - Realms December 2009
The Only One - Fly in Amber November 2009
Never on a Birthday - Byzarium November 2008
The Weed Eaters - The Fat Man at the End of the World anthology November 2008
Straight through the heart - ZineWest June 2007
Bigger Fish - Fantastic Wonder Stories April 2007
Highway - Infinitas Newsletter October 2005
The ten days of madness - AntiSF September 2005
Mass Extinction - AntiSF June 2005
Invalid - AntiSF May 2005
Forthcoming:
Party, with Echoes - Redstone SF
Where the plains merge into the sky - Scape Magazine
Poor Man's Travel - Anywhere But Earth anthology
Charlotte's Army (novella) - Distant Worlds anthology