Looking for a new short read? I have a short story in the recently released By the Light of Camelot, edited by J. R. Campbell and Shannon Allen. I wasn’t expecting this book to come out for another month or so, but it looks like Amazon has it already.

I really enjoyed working on my story for this one. The piece is called “Loyalty of a Thousand Years,” and it’s inspired by the story of the Fisher King. Intrigued? Here’s the first paragraph:

Boris closed the apartment door behind him, hung up his work jacket—first checking the embroidered dancing rats and cockroaches for loose threads—set his boots on the rack beside the radiator, and went straight to the nearest calendar to make his daily notes. He kept a calendar in every room in case he came seriously unstuck in time, and he updated each one every few hours. He couldn’t remember when the days started bleeding together, but a written record seemed to help.

Enjoy!