Turn of the Card

A short story of 10k words, originally published in Tarot Fantastic, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Lawrence Schimel.Shelagh was a mother, living in a small home, on the edge of the rest of her life with a husband she adored.Now, she lives alone. Her husband remains convalescent in a care facility, wordless and unable to walk. All of the promise of life, of future, is gone, and she wants no reminders of the past-but she finds one: a pack of carefully hand-crafted Tarot Cards that she made for him on a long-ago day when the future seemed to matter.Those cards are one of the few remaining things that bind them together-but to what end? I write novels for DAW books. There are 11 books in total, over three different, but connected series:THE SACRED HUNT:Hunter's OathHunter's DeathTHE SUN SWORD:Broken CrownUncrowned KingShining CourtSea of SorrowsRiven ShieldSun SwordTHE HOUSE WAR:Hidden CityCity of NightHouse NameSkirmishBattleOracleFirstbornWarOver the years, I've written novellas tied into the universe in which these novels are set, and all but one are out of print. So I'm here, in part, to at least make the stories available as epubs from here on :)I *also* write novels as Michelle Sagara, for Mira & for DAW: