This is a (very short) story I wrote one Sunday evening in September of 2012. As it is too short to publish on its own, and I do not have enough material for an anthology (yet), I thought I would share it here. Considering it is the Halloween season, this strikes me as appropriate. Enjoy. …
After a catastrophic storm leaves the city of Redling half-filled with mud and the magician Bouragner Felpz ill with exhaustion, his faithful ward Corianne determines to take him on a relaxing country vacation. This however is soon upset by the sudden appearance of a ghostly witch, who holds the key to preventing an even greater …
A simple murder soon takes a turn for the mysterious, as things often do when the magician Bouragner Felpz is involved. Now he and his ward, Corianne, find themselves drawn into the harsh world of vagabond thief-masters and young pick-pockets, trying to uncover the truth behind an enchanted ring and the shadowy organization known as …
In a world where magic is real, mythical creatures such as vampires can collide with reality to produce astonishing events. In this, the third installment in the Adventures of Bouragner Felpz, we find the “Magician’s Consultant” and his long-suffering ward embroiled in an intrigue that connects a famous cathedral to something much darker, and downright …
Mr. Bouragner Felpz is a curious gentleman. “Magician’s Consultant,” according to his card, his practice takes him to places both fantastical and sinister as he untangles magical mysteries. And where he goes, his ward and reluctant biographer Miss Corianne Birch is often obliged to follow. Set in a time and place not far from late …
Corianne Birch is a young woman, newly orphaned, in a strange city. Fortunately, she has a godfather who has agreed to take custody of her. Perhaps unfortunately, he is the flamboyant, inscrutable, sometimes-maddening magician Bouragner Felpz. Set in a time and place not far from late Victorian England—but in a world where magic is very, …
Nat has always been able to see things other people can’t. But she has never seen anything quite as peculiar, or quite as frightening, as the strange man locked in the chest in her room in the new house. Soon she finds herself dropped in the middle of an ancient conflict, and the fate of …
