Unicorn Triangle

by Patricia A. McKillip

A tribute to The Last Unicorn from the bestselling author of The Riddle-Master of Hed

Lisa may be merely a distracted maid working a mind-numbing job in an old beach hotel. But she also carries memories from another time and place, perhaps even another dimension. Her coworkers don’t know where she came from, what language she speaks, and not even if her slow wits are caused by bad translations from her native tongue.

Only Lisa seems to know that she’s been flung here from somewhere else, by a spell cast by a dying sorcerer. His blood was still covering her when she’s found lying amidst blackberry brambles beneath the shadow of the hotel. Only she believes that she might, in fact, be a banished unicorn, trapped inside an ungainly human body.

But someone from Lisa’s previous life has tracked her down and the truth, for better or worse, may come out at last....

Genres: Fantasy, Unicorns, Science Fiction Fantasy

20 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2017

About the author

Patricia Anne McKillip was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. She wrote predominantly standalone fantasy novels and has been called "one of the most accomplished prose stylists in the fantasy genre". Her work won many awards, including the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2008.

Reviews

[Featherfire · Rating 3 out of 5]

Um, whoa? Where's the rest of it? The writing is beautiful, graceful and serene, I was really looking forward to the story... and suddenly I'm reading ABOUT THE AUTHOR. I was so confused, I really thought I'd somehow accidentally skipped to the end. I guess I should pay more attention to the length of things at the outset, but everything pointed to this being a full novel. Still, I enjoyed the story... I just wish there was more of it. It had the potential to be something great!

[Alex Sarll]

A very short (seriously, the blurbs and such take up more than half the length) ebook obtained solely because it was in the lowest tier of a Humble Bundle with some other stuff that looked potentially interesting, but which used language seductively enough to make me interested in reading more McKillip. Alas, the plot - about a unicorn turned by a sorceror into a confused and largely speechless menial worker - just kept reminding me of a question my wife had asked the previous evening, regarding what would happen were a unicorn to fuck a zombie.

[Lissa]

In the karkadan triangle

[Lindsay · Rating 3 out of 5]

This has the potential to be a very good story about a unicorn who was magically turned into a human woman, but it ended quite abruptly. I was enjoying the story and looking forward to seeing how the former unicorn was going to find the sorcerer to turn her back, when the story just ended without that conclusion.

[Kristyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

For what it is, I loved it, but I just want more. It's very much the beginning of a story. The first few pages were a delicious lyrical prose characteristic of her work.

[Engel Dreizehn · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was short but there was something funny about a unicorn being turned into a maid servent int he modern world and complaining about it.

[Megan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good for what it was, a short (and I mean short) story, but I really wish there had been more.

[Mira]

Oh Lord :(