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A J Hartley

Act of Will

Anthology

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Robin Hood

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

Wanting isn’t enough

I’ve been taking classes in Middle Eastern dance since 2003. When my teacher first began training us to play zills while we danced, I just couldn’t get it. Every time she told us to get our zills out, I would sigh, knowing I was about to clank them together like a toddler beating [...]

Why do we do this, again?

I’ve talked a lot–and no doubt will talk more, eventually–about how, at the heart of it, being a novelist is just a job like any other. How you have to sit down and get the job done when you never want to type another word, when you never want to *think* about story again, when [...]

“No” is the easiest word.

In the summer before the 2000 presidential election, I sent off a short story to a science fiction magazine. The world of the story was one in which global warming and the deterioration of the protective ozone layer were slowly killing off the human population of the planet. I thought it was rather [...]