When the Villian Comes Home
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GABRIELLE HARBOWY is an award-nominated writer and editor of fantasy and science fiction. She copyedits for Pyr, Seven Realms Publishing and Lambda Literary Review, and is Managing Editor at Dragon Moon Press. She has worked with first-time authors, New York Times Bestsellers, and Hugo Award winners, and has acquired books that have gone on to become finalists and winners of ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year, the Bram Stoker Award, the Prix Aurora, and the Lambda Literary Award, to name a few. As a writer, her short fiction appears in print and podcast anthologies. She is based in San Francisco in the real world, and can be found on the web at www.gabrielle-edits.com, and on Twitter as @gabrielle_h.
Contents
Editors’ Note . 3
PINKTASTIC AND THE END OF THE WORLD . 9
Camille Alexa
HUNGER OF THE BLOOD REAVER . 20
A Tale of the World of Ruin
Erik Scott de Bie
VILLAINELLE . 34
Chaz Brenchley
ORANGES, LEMONS, AND THOU BESIDE ME . 46
Eugie Foster
PROMETHEUS FOUND . 58
David Sakmyster
HAPPILY EVER AFTER . 70
Marie Bilodeau
THE LITTLE THINGS . 78
Richard Lee Byers
HEELS . 88
K.D. McEntire
THE SUNSHINE BARON . 99
Peadar Ó Guilín
DADDY’S LITTLE GIRL . 110
Jim C. Hines
THAN TO SERVE IN HEAVEN . 122
Ari Marmell
THE BLEACH . 133
Karin Lowachee
THE WOMAN WHO SHATTERED THE MOON . 143
Jay Lake
CHARITY . 153
Julie E. Czerneda
MADDENING SCIENCE . 165
J.M. Frey
BIRTHRIGHT . 183
Clint Talbert
BROKEN CLOUDS . 194
Rachel Swirsky
THE MISCIBLE IMP . 209
Tony Pi
MANMADE . 217
Leah Petersen
THE LORD OF THE SOUTHERN SKY . 228
J. P. Moore
BACK IN THE DAY . 235
Ryan T. McFadden
ROBIN REDBREAST . 247
Todd McCaffrey
CYCLE OF REVENGE . 259
Erik Buchanan
THE PRESUIL’S CALL . 268
Gregory A. Wilson
THE MAN WITH LOOKING-GLASS EYES . 282
Rosemary Jones
STARKEEP . 289
Gabrielle Harbowy
A LOT OF SLY WORK AHEAD . 300
Ed Greenwood
THE HEIR APPARENT . 311
Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon
HOME AGAIN, HOME AGAIN . 317
(Another Mid-Death Crisis)
Chris A. Jackson
THE BEST LAID PLANS . 326
Steve Bornstein
About the Editors . 336