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The Battle Dancer
Cover of the historical fantasy novella The Battle Dancer, by Nick Wisseman.

Everyone in Dzune had always assumed Tay could read fates, that her milky eyes let her discern what others couldn't. Villagers brought gifts in exchange for her wisdom and treated it as the ironclad word of the Sun Father. There was only one problem: Tay couldn't actually see the future.

 

Not at all initially, and only a little after her awakening. She'd had a true vision once, though, an image of her—armed and angry—safeguarding a strange man on a green hill. And now that man had come to Dzune.

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Please Note: This story doesn’t fully resolve on its own—it’s meant as a lead-in to The Red Wraith.

The Battle Dancer won an Honorable Mention from the Writers of the Future Contest in 2014. The current version was published on February 23, 2018.

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The Ascenders
Cover of the historical fantasy novella The Ascenders, by Nick Wisseman.

The Ascenders (Book 0.5 in The Red Wraith Series)

A rabble-rouser with burn scars marring his neck and face. A runaway slave who limps and mutters to himself. Another exile, this one riddled with pockmarks and accompanied by a dirty seagull. A dowser who braids her hair in elaborate patterns threaded with blue flowers. What do these outcasts—these reluctant witches and warlocks and shamans—have in common? They’re about to find out.

 

And the truth will cause them to love, fight, and kill each other.

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Please Note: This story doesn’t fully resolve on its own—it’s meant as a lead-in to The Red Wraith.

An excerpt from The Ascenders won an Honorable Mention from the Writers of the Future Contest in 2015. The current version was published on April 23, 2018.

 

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Cover of the historical fantasy novella Magic in the Mud Show, by Nick Wisseman.

Magic in the Mud Show (Part of the Neva Freeman Series)

A famous circus. A sick elephant. A dead artist encased in wax.


What does it all mean? Neva, a bone-bending dancer, isn't sure. But she needs to find out before she ends up in wax herself.

 

Magic in the Mud Show is a historical fantasy set in the Barnum & Bailey circus of 1892. The story serves as a prequel to Witch in the White City.

Magic in the Mud Show was first published in the Winter 2020 issue of The Colored Lens magazine. An updated version was published on July 15, 2021.

 

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Bone Rush
Bone Rush Cover

A newly graduated astro-archaeologist discovers a lost planet, dead legends, and a hidden killer.

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Photo by Jesper Aggergaard on Unsplash.

Bone Rush was first published on a chapter-by-chapter basis by After the Storm beginning on April 18, 2023. The complete manuscript was published on October 5, 2024.

 

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Hearing Red
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In Napoleonic-era London, a stranded teenager is recruited by a studio for sensory “perceptives” and tries to see through their lies without being tripped up by his own.

Hearing Red was published by The Lit Nerds on February 9, 2024.

 

Read the online version here.

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