Stephen Case BCS 2021 Novelette Fantasy 10,181 words details

"It was an inauspicious beginning to my mission to find the deathmage and bring her to the capital. I found her exactly where the Mandate said I would: at a tavern table, in one of the northern work camps, wasted drunk. Her long black curls, laced with...

Secondary World FantasyGuiltVisceral

Stephen Case BCS 2019 Novelette High Fantasy 9,150 words details

Madam Grey sells life insurance to the young men recruited by the Empire to fight in the Grass War. The war goes badly, but she has a chance to end it—at great cost.

Historical FantasyMentorshipRestrained