Contents ( 300)
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTERREGNUM
- GUARDED
- TRAINING: WEIGHTS
- SUCCESSION
- GRIEF
- MAP
- NOT SO
- TRAINING: STANCES
- THE HORSE LORD
- TUTOR
- HORSES
- TRAINING: HORSE
- SHAZIA
- WEDDING GIFTS
- TRAINING: SPARRING
- WOLF MOON
- CROSSING
- PIGEON SIX
- SETTING OUT
- THIRTY-EIGHTH WAR BETWEEN INNIS AND MEQING FIRST BATTLE
- ROSE
- KHYERT
- MOON SWAN
- THIRTY-EIGHTH WAR BETWEEN INNIS AND MEQING SECOND BATTLE
- LEONG
- MIDNIGHT
- THIRTY-EIGHTH WAR BETWEEN INNIS AND MEQING THIRD BATTLE
- TSUNG’S BATTLE
- DOWN
- DONAL
- SURGEON
- THE MATTER OF THE HORSES
- TRAINING: RUNNING
- WHAT XAU RAN FROM
- THE QUEEN’S WAR
- NIGHT
- MEMORIALS
- STABLES
- TRAINING: DARK
- DRAGONSLAYER
- COMPANIONSHIP
- TRAINING: CARRY
- ROPE SKIPPING CHANT
- NAMING
- DECORATION
- A HANDFUL OF NIGHTS
- ARTOCH
- AFTERWARD
- WHAT XAU REMEMBERED
- ONE WEEK
- BEDTIME
- HELP
- WHAT THEY BROUGHT
- ROUTE
- CAMP
- AFTERSHOCK
- SCALPEL
- SCARED
- GIRL
- CURE
- THE WAY OF THINGS
- IN HONOR OF THE KING
- TRAINING: INJURY
- MICHA
- THRESHOLD
- RIDDLE: TWINS
- ABSENCE
- LETTER TO HIS YOUNG SON
- THIRTY-NINTH WAR BETWEEN INNIS AND MEQING: COMMENCEMENT
- FAULT
- POLTON
- JUSTICE
- WINTER REAPING
- MESSENGERS
- BROTHERS
- DEMON FIRE
- NECROMANCER
- RANK AND FILE
- LINNY
- NIGHT ATTACK
- ANGSHAN
- MOON DARK
- MIDSUMMER’S DAY
- BURNT
- TRAINING: ENDURANCE
- DRAGON
- ALDFORD
- BEFORE
- DEMON
- THE DEMON’S CREW
- DEBT
- DAYBREAK
- NUMBERS
- DARKNESS
- MENDING
- TRAINING: SHIELD
- TIRRON
- RETURNING
- HAN CHEN
- RIDDLE: MAIDEN
- AFTER
- VICTORY
- QUEEN FIAN
- DEMON STAIN
- DARK HARVEST
- BRIGHID
- MATTERS OF STATE
- TWO KINGS
- RESPECT
- DIVERSION
- ENLAI
- BOYS
- MEI
- SECOND SIGHT
- INCIDENT
- BLAME
- THE HOUSE OF MEMORY
- PETITION
- HER THOUSAND FACES
- DUTY
- WHAT KING DONAL SAID TO HIS BROTHER,
- PRINCE CONNOL,
- CONCERNING A POSSIBLE WEDDING
- BETWEEN PRINCE CONNOL AND THE
- PRINCESS MEI
- SOLSTICE
- SCHEDULE
- RIDDLE: AUSPICIOUS
- SUMMONS
- JUMBLE
- FALLEN
- CAPTAIN
- OUTSPOKEN
- SICKBED
- LETTERS
- BESPEAKING: RIDDLES
- FIRST DAY
- FOREBODING
- EVER AFTER
- WELCOME
- LI
- BEFORE KINGS
- VIEWPOINT
- THE RIDE BACK
- POSTPONED
- DISTRACTION
- WAKE
- EIRDRE
- BENCH
- TIARNAN
- DREAM
- SWORDS
- WOLF THRONE
- HARP
- WIDOW
- HARMOUTH
- OPUS
- RIDDLE: INSTRUMENT
- HANDS
- SHADE
- LIPOH
- MISTAKEN
- HUANG
- DECISION
- ATUN
- WHAT ATUN LEARNED
- JUN XI
- TRAVELING
- DISCRETION
- FORD
- A CHAIN OF HORSES
- NOT LIKE THIS
- SURFACING
- BUSY
- WHY THE KING WEPT
- DREAD
- HERO
- HOMING PIGEONS
- VENGEANCE
- DARK ARROW
- DIPLOMATIC COMMUNIQUÉ
- MEETING
- THE VOICE
- THE HIDDEN QUEEN
- FRAUGHT
- MONSTER
- TRAINING: HOSTAGE
- ANOTHER WEEK
- BASICS
- FOR HER BIRTHDAY
- INHERITANCE
- KENG
- RIDDLE: HOUSE
- STAY
- EVERYWOMAN
- TRAINING: GUARDS
- UNDONE
- AMBER
- PORTRAITS
- MONSTER: PUPPETEER
- ELIGIBLE
- THE NINE
- TOMB SWEEPING DAY
- ARROW
- NOTHING
- RIPPLES
- HONOR
- DELAYED
- FERRY
- THE RIDE
- VIGIL
- PARTNERS
- UNSAID
- REMEMBRANCE
- PROPHECY
- MEDDLING
- QUESTIONS
- YING
- THE HUNDRED DRAGONS OF SUMBRAL
- THE PATH TO PEACE
- DRAGON BREATH
- A GIFT
- FIRE BONES
- TRAINING: STAFF
- ESCORT
- THE DEAD
- INTERLUDE
- FIRE
- CYRUS
- DAWN
- A WARNING
- AGAIN
- REASONS
- THE BORDER
- HEAT
- HER
- HIM
- MONSTER: OASIS
- THE HORSE WOMAN
- NEGOTIATION
- STEPMOTHER
- KING’S GUARD
- VETO
- EXTRACTS FROM THE RECOLLECTIONS OF ARTOCH, SENIOR ADVISOR TO KING XAU
- ENTOURAGE
- BETWEEN
- THE WILD HORSES CAME HASTENING
- FEALTY
- SHEEP
- THE EIGHTH SON OF GANBATAAR
- ANCHOR
- KHIDYR
- PROPOSITION
- PAIRED
- SUMMER’S END
- HOMECOMING
- SATISFACTORY
- TIAN
- MONSTER: SISTER
- DRAGON MOUNTAIN
- ALLIES
- KHAN
- LOYALTY
- TARGET
- OATH
- RECRUITS
- BRIDGE
- WAY-FORT
- BOWL
- LANTERN FESTIVAL
- COAST
- MONSTER: OPENING GAMBIT
- SPY
- LOTUS MOON
- FIVE ARROWS
- KINGSHIP
- GAN
- COUNTER GAMBIT
- VENEER
- YUNXU
- CONCLUSIONS
- SINCE SUMBRAL
- FURTHER EXTRACTS FROM THE RECOLLECTIONS OF ARTOCH, SENIOR ADVISOR TO KING XAU
- MONSTER: TAHJ
- BOYHOOD
- JOY
- MANEUVERS
- ADDENDUM
- REUNION
- THE IMPERIUM
- BENEATH THE BLADE
- EQUINOX
- LOGIC
- BLOODSHED
- WOUNDED
- DAUNTED
- THE IMPERIAL WAR: ONSET
- BOATMAN
- IMPOSTOR
“Monster: Puppeteer,” Apex Magazine, Issue 104, January 2018
“Eligible,” Ship of Fools #77, Spring 2017
“Arrow,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, October 2016
“The Ride,” Star*Line #38.1, Winter 2015
“Unsaid,” Uppagus #25, September 2017
“The Hundred Dragons of Sumbral,” Star*Line #37.4, Fall 2014
“The Path to Peace,” The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2017
“A Gift,” Dreams & Nightmares #101, July 2015
“Again,” Dreams & Nightmares #108, January 2018
“Stepmother,” Eye to the Telescope #21, July 2016
“Between,” Uppagus #24, July 2017
“The Wild Horses Came Hastening,” Silver Blade #28, Fall 2015
“Sheep,” Ship of Fools #76, Fall 2016
“Homecoming,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, June 2016
“Dragon Mountain,” Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #35, February 2018
“Recruits,” Mirror Dance, Winter 2016
“Bowl,” Ship of Fools #75, Spring 2016
“Lotus Moon,” Mythic Delirium #4.2, October-December 2017
“Five Arrows,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, March 2017
“Kingship,” The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2017
“Further Extracts from the Recollections of Artoch, Senior Advisor to King Xau,” Mirror Dance, Summer 2016
“Daunted,” Dreams & Nightmares #105, January 2017
“The Imperial War: Onset,” Grievous Angel, January 2017
“Boatman,” Mithila Review #9, 2017
“First Lesson,” Silver Blade #30, Spring 2016
“Between Battles,” Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #38, November 2018
“When King Xau was Gone,” Uppagus #23, May 2017
“Seventeenth Lesson,” Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #31, February 2017
“Judgment,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, December 2016
“Mortal,” Spillway #25, Summer 2017
“The Sign of the King,” Strange Horizons, April 2017
“At the Sign of the Dragon,” Uppagus #20, October 2016
“Half-Caste,” Main Street Rag Volume 17, Number 3, Summer 2012
About the Author
Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but has lived in Pittsburgh for over twenty years. She writes both fiction and poetry, and once upon a time earned a degree in mathematics from Cambridge University. Her work has received the Rhysling Award and the Elgin Award, and has appeared in a wide range of publications including American Scholar, the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Science. Her previous book, Elemental Haiku, contained a very different type of poetry: 119 haiku for the elements of the periodic table, and was published by Ten Speed Press in 2019. She tweets at @MarySoonLee and is hoping that her antiquated website will be updated any day now (http://www.marysoonlee.com).
For those looking for more personal information about her, she notes that her parents were both immigrants, her father from Malaysia, her mother from Ireland, and offers this short autobiographical poem:
HALF-CASTE
Privileged child of immigrant parents,
I jettisoned Malay, Hokkien, Gaelic,
the words they spoke before they met;
cribbed an accent from my schoolmates,
my London birth a guarantee
of passport, health care, cups of tea.
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