When you don't know what your magic is and you need a retreat from the world there are Orders who take you in and help you restore yourself. But they are the Orders of Joy, and sometimes, you shouldn't hide your joy in a cloister, but instead go out into the world and find it.
This story is loosely connected to Car Talk.
Fletcher is a member of the newly created Magical Weather Society at the Musimagium headquarters in Melody, MO. He's been tracking the magic storms, and when one not only happens right under his nose, but appears to be tethered to an artifact that appears to be a magical portal, he's curious. His Serama rooster, socius, tells him there's danger there. Will he heed the warning?
This story is related to Through A Portal Storm, the current ongoing serial.
I absolutely loved writing this short story, and I'm hoping to return to Fletcher and the Magical Weather Society, as well as his mysterious portal soon.
Starina is in between investigations, on administrative leave, and decides to take a long-overdue vacation. When she's gifted a goldfish by a Buddhist monk, she realizes that there's more than a simple gift. A transfer to new department hints at things to come, but first, she needs to figure out where she belongs.
This story is related to both Tempus Magic and the current ongoing serial, The Search for Apollo's Chalice.
Ingrid Rosemary Margaret Heffingshire preferred to be called Inni, spend time in the barn with her Welsh pony Buttercup and in general avoid a mother who insisted she be ladylike and learn how to move in the upper echelons of Musimagium society. A mysterious invitation means a chance at freedom, but it also means the beloved pony she's adored and won ribbons with may be more than she seems. Will an unlikely ally help her make a bid for freedom from the stuffy life her mother wants for her?
Sun and shadow, dark and light. This story is a duology with Luna Lucet showcasing the other point of view and was inspired by Mercedes Lackey's filk song, Sun and Shadow.
A flamen (priest) of Apollo is denied membership into an elite order of priests because of his disability--he has night terrors in the dark due to a traumatic incident as a child. But he's determined to compose something new during the total eclipse, so with his rooster socius, Lyre, and his violin, he goes to the gazebo in the facility he lives in for disabled mages.
But he's not alone. Someone has been drawn to the gazebo. By whom, he doesn't know, but suddenly he discovers, he's not alone. The only problem is she's photosensitive and can't bear more than the slightest hint of sunlight.
