“Over a Narrow Sea” goes live at Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #60

My short story “Over a Narrow Sea” has gone live at Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine:

This is how I choose to remember it….

 The night was a rousing success. I swept down the main staircase just before the twelfth hour’s first strike on the great hall clock as my uncle proposed his toast to the infamous Warlord of Mekk and twelve hundred other guests. I’d dressed as my uncle ordered—in my best gown with its torturous collar digging into my neck, the tight-laced boots which hid my deformity, and that inane sash dangling from my left shoulder announcing my agecoming and my position as heir to the House of Toth. If I wore also a sharp knife strapped to my thigh and the glitter of rebellion in my eyes, well…there were no such orders for those. Those were all mine. . . .
Read the story free in its entirety here.