The Best of Turtleduck Press: Volume II

by Siri Paulson

Editions:Kindle

Pages: 85

In celebration of our tenth anniversary, Turtleduck Press has selected the best of our short fiction from the last six years for your reading pleasure. Each author has two stories included, one voted as their best by the members of TDP, and the one they consider their best work personally.

Stories included in this collection:

Changeling, Erin Zarro

Baking Lessons, KD Sarge

The Haunting of Heatherbrae Station, Siri Paulson

1-800-HAUNTME, Kit Campbell

Warped, Erin Zarro

Crazy Boy, KD Sarge

Still Waters, Siri Paulson

Deserts and Domes, Kit Campbell

Thank you for supporting us these last ten years, and we hope to bring you many more stories in the future.

Still Waters by Siri Paulson

Payut is an itinerant boat peddler and healer, and he's worried. Something is sickening villagers and birds in the web of jungle canals he paddles through. He's determined to find a way to help them. But the sickness is coming from the city, which holds a secret he's been running from for many years...

The Haunting of Heatherbrae Station by Siri Paulson

In a steampunk world where the Victorians spread across the Solar System, Rachel Okembe arrives at a remote space station to take up her new position as a governess to two motherless children. But dark rumours swirl around their father the stationmaster. The station itself is said to be haunted. Rachel needs to find answers, and quickly: just who is in peril--and from what?

Published: June 15, 2020
Publisher: Turtleduck Press
Genres:

Fantasy, Sci Fi

Tags:

author - american, author - canadian, format - anthology, format - kindle, format - short stories

Languages Available: English
Languages Available: English

About the Author

Siri Paulson (she/her) loves nothing more than mixing up genres to see what will happen. Her other passion is contra (folk) dancing. Her lifelong dreams include publishing novels (one and counting), travelling the world (had a good start until recently), and becoming an astronaut (still waiting...). She lives with her spouse in an old house in Toronto, dubbed the TARDIS because it's bigger on the inside.

Siri's most recent release is a near-future retelling of the Little Mermaid, a novella titled Voice of the Sea. Her queer fantasy novel City of Hope and Ruin, co-written with Kit Campbell, was released in 2016. Her work has also appeared in Abyss & Apex, Daily Science Fiction, and Polar Borealis, in Queer Sci Fi's flash fiction anthologies Clarity (2022), Migration (2019), and Renewal (2017) (https://queerscifi.com), and in the 2017 holiday collection from Mischief Corner Books (https://www.mischiefcornerbooks.com/a-new-year-on-vega-iii.html).

She can also be found dabbling in photography on Instagram.

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Summary: It seemed so simple, cross a train yard, hop a train and Todd and Nick would be free, on their way home to Elk’s Ridge in Yellowknife. Nothing is ever simple or easy for the Ruger men, however. Captured by Vice-Chancellor Raleigh, Todd is imprisoned, leaving Nick alone and seeking a way to free his mate. Help comes from an unlikely and unexpected ally. Todd’s freedom places the Rugers yet again into the Chancellor’s debt. He sends them on a fact finding mission to the small village of Eldrid, the same village where Nick was raised a slave. There they discover how past events led to their present society, the origins of sentries and slaves and what made some of them so special. They also uncover a conspiracy spear-headed by Vice-Chancellor Raleigh. An attempt at stopping him isn’t as successful as they’d hoped when old enemies are confronted. The realities of war, and why some people don’t survive, are hard lessons for both Todd and Nick to learn. Through firefights, explosions and a vicious attack from a seemingly unbeatable supernatural being, one thing is reinforced over and over—the most important thing each one has is each other. Will they survive or join an ever growing list of casualties?