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Tales in Firelight and Shadow

October 18, 2014 By: Patricia

Getting my first short story published in a commercial anthology was just as exciting as getting my first novel contract. I’m still doing my little happy dance from the ebook release, and I’ll probably dance a real Irish jig (even though I’m mostly Norwegian) if/when the anthology is released in print.

Here’s the cover art for Tales in Firelight and Shadow:

Contents:

Prologue
Mary A. Turzillo – “Pigeon Drop”
Jason Parent – “Moody’s Metal”
Patricia Stoltey – “Three Sisters of Ring Island”
Joseph Michael – “Nuckelavee”
Tenea D. Johnson – “Sugar Hill”
James Morrow – “Spinoza’s Golem”
Christina St. Clair – “Green Cat”
Alfonso Arteaga – “La Planchada” [“The Woman in the Ironed Dress”]
T.J. Weyler – “Keepers”
Ceschino – “Tailed”
Alexandra Dairo-Brown – “Mercy and the Mermaid”
Novella Serena – “My Bogeyman” montage – “Sans Lake”
A.J. Maguire – “The Nano-Fisherman’s Wife”
F. Brett Cox – “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean”
Jennifer L. Julian – “Dance”
Alexis Brooks de Vita – “The Savant”

The opening paragraph of the prologue:

In the dark night of the human soul, a fire is lit and a tale is told, stirred from a chthonic pottage of dirt, blood and terror: the folktale. The flame that simmers our earthly supper does double duty as light through black hours toward the brave sun of day. We feed the body and the faltering spirit with hearth fire, campfire, candlelight, and electricity: flames promising that we are not alone.

The anthology editor and contributor (and Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers member) Alexis Brooks de Vita includes this mention of my story:

Oh, but where is that folktale world so fondly recalled from childhood? Right here in Patricia Stoltey’s sun-spattered “Three Sisters of Ring Island,” a familiar story scraped to its bare bones-so to speak.

You can read the rest of the prologue at the Double Dragon website.

The Tales in Firelight and Shadow ebook is also available from other online booksellers. The links are on the Double Dragon website.

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Comments

  1. Trisha F says

    October 20, 2014 at 12:23 am

    That’s a great achievement – congrats! I love that book cover … it’s mesmerising.

  2. LD Masterson says

    October 19, 2014 at 4:10 pm

    Congratulations. Sounds great.

  3. Fifi Islaih says

    October 18, 2014 at 8:03 pm

    That sneak peak was cool! Congrats!

  4. Dean K Miller says

    October 18, 2014 at 6:59 pm

    Awesomeness, Pat! Congrats and I’ll be reading it soon.

  5. Tyrean Martinson says

    October 18, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    Congratulations! It sounds like a wonderful anthology!

  6. Margot Kinberg says

    October 18, 2014 at 4:20 pm

    Oh, this is fabulous, Pat!!! Well done! Congratulations! I can’t wait to read it!

  7. Alex J. Cavanaugh says

    October 18, 2014 at 6:44 am

    Congratulations! Hope you get to see a print version.

Meet Patricia

I read, I write, I blog, and sometimes I do the laundry and cook. My 2014 novel, Dead Wrong, was a finalist in the thriller category of the 2015 Colorado Book Awards. Wishing Caswell Dead (Five Star/Cengage, December 20, 2017) is a historical mystery set in 1830s Illinois in the fictitious Village of Sangamon. The novel was a finalist for the 2018 Colorado Book Awards for General Fiction. My most recent release, In Defense of Delia (Five Star/Cengage, November 2022), is available in hardcover and will soon be available in ebook and trade paperback. Read More…

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