Imagine a dark lord who is as much a victim as the zombie armies she commands. Imagine a hero who wants to take an unusual path. Imagine a shaman who's sick of the barbarians hogging all the glory, or a man trying to rebel against his society in the most subtle way possible.
In a high fantasy world, it’s not uncommon to hear of a group of adventurers setting out to slay a dragon, to dethrone some tyrant dark lord, or simply searching for magical treasures. In more modern times, a quest might be a more personal challenge; like an author’s struggle to write a short story every day for a year.
But every quest has its prize. And after writing hundreds of short stories of all kinds, here is the treasure at the end of that line. This book contains a dozen of the best stories of sword and sorcery, chosen from a selection of more than four hundred. I hope you can enjoy reading along with these stories as much as I enjoyed writing them.