The Simpson Anthologies
An Anthology of Dragons
Book 1: The Simpson Anthologies
Author: C.M. Simpson
Released: April 2012
An Anthology of Dragons is a dragon-themed collection of short stories and poetry. Poetry consists of a collection of haiku describing a battle between a dragon and a knight, and a more modern style of poem describing the search for a dragon in the modern world. The four short stories explore dragons as intelligent shapeshifter, companion and beast.
Each of the stories and poems in this anthology are available for purchase as individual titles.
Dragon
Coast is about a young girl’s struggle to
find a career. Jessica is out of work and in desperate need of a job. When
fashion company, Dragon Coast, start advertising vacancies, she decides to aim high
and then work her way down the list.
Everything
has its Price is about a tale told by a squire
about a blind bard’s encounter with a dragon.
The
Duel is about two young men engaging in
a duel over a woman’s honour.
Dueling
with the Dragon is a series of haiku depicting a
battle between a dragon and a knight.
Where
be Dragon? is a speculative paranormal urban
poem about the discovery of a modern dragon.
The Dragon in my Shadow about the discovery of another urban dragon,
albeit this time in an office environment in the middle of one woman’s battle
for career survival.An Anthology of Dragons is available from Kobo, Amazon and Smashwords.
An Anthology of Battle
Book 2: The Simpson Anthologies
Author: C.M. Simpson
Released: May 2012
An Anthology of Battle is a collection of short stories and poems about war and the aftermath of war.
Each of the stories and poems in this anthology are available for purchase as individual titles.
A Vignette for Rashkah opens
with Rashkah's mother mourning the death of Rashkah's last surviving brother.
When raiders attack their village, Rashkah's life is irrevocably changed,
although some elements remain the same.
A
Window on Salukia is a short story made up of a
series of linked vignettes describing cyclic battles and aftermaths in fantasy,
pseudo-contemporary, and science fiction settings.
Jacob's
Vision is Erin’s story of her planet-bound experiences
after an interplanetary war. She describes the fate of a war hero, and of the
start of re-building.
War's
End is
a non-rhyming poem describes one way to end a war.
Keeping
the Peace is a poem noting one of the ironies
of peace-keeping.
Death
at War's End is a poem taking a different view
of the aftermath of war.
Jalaya describes the last battle in a ten-year-long war. It
is a science-fiction story of family, long-standing love and of sacrifices made
for the sake of community, duty and loyalty. It is a story of heroes,
fire-fights, wits and courage.An Anthology of Battle is available from Kobo, Amazon, and Smashwords.
An Anthology of Those Who Walk Among Us
Book 3: The Simpson Anthologies
Author: C.M. Simpson
Released: July 2012
An
Anthology of Those Who Walk Among Us is a collection of
short stories about creatures passing as humans in human settings, each of
which is available individually. Stories cover a range of genres from
paranormal urban to science fiction to magic realism. They feature the
ubiquitious werewolves and vampires as well as other types of shape-shifters,
or humans who aren’t quite all human.
Each of the stories and poems in this anthology are available for purchase as individual titles.
Shadow Life is
set in the paranormal night time of
our own world. Denie’s lover has been murdered and she must cross the boundary
between life and undeath to wreak her revenge.
Nothing is a very short story about the survivors of a starship’s
crash landing.
Esmeralda
and the Breeze is
a short story in the magic realism genre centered around a young woman finding
her place in a world that largely rejects her
Nurse is a short horror story, featuring a secretive species of
vampire and its newest recruit.
Treaty
Time is a short science fiction story
that continues the story of human settlement started in ‘Nothing’. In this
tale, both humans and shifters discover they are not alone, and that some
memories are inherited.
Peace
Flower is a short fantasy story set in a
time of war and change. Shoru is descended from a long line of sorceresses,
once valued for their skills. How they are viewed in the future, depends on the
battle’s outcome.
An Anthology of Those Who Walk Among Us is available from Kobo, Amazon, and Smashwords.
An Anthology of Worlds
Book 4: The Simpson Anthologies
Author: C.M. Simpson
Released: September2012
An Anthology of Worlds is a collection of short stories and poems that play with the idea of exploring different worlds. Some of these worlds are parallel to our own and others are literally on other planets, but all deal with a reality that's not the same as we know it now.
Each of the stories and poems in this anthology are available for purchase as individual titles.
On a Ship Called Mythicus is about the star ship Mythicus, which is
crewed by creatures of myth and legend, fairytale and urban lore. In this short
episode, it and its crew pursue a space pirate. With its firestarter captain
and a defense system that takes its nomenclature too literally, this ship is
one of a kind, a fact the rest of human space should be grateful for.
Finders-Keepers is about a single gold coin shining on the pavement, which
no one but me seems to have noticed. I watch it, hoping someone will take it
and claim it as their own. Needing someone to take it. Please take it.
In
a Cyber-World is a social comment in poem form
about how cyber communications and social niceties.
Two
Worlds Collide is a modern poem about the things
we glimpse from the corners of our eyes.
Palmyra
Ridge is about Chani, who still dreams of the ritual
of Severance, which allowed her to leave her people's homeland, but when the
company she works for moves to take her people's lands, she is exactly where
she needs to be. All she has to do is convince Security Officer Asleyan that
her visits to Palmyra Ridge are essential, and maybe gain his assistance in
defending those she holds most dear. But the security officer has a heritage
and fears of his own. Can two people from two very different cultures work
together to save nation, while retaining their own sense of self and sanity? Palmyra
Ridge is a short science fiction story exploring issues of belonging,
bloodlines and heritage in a changing world.
Nettlefold
Princess tells how all is not well in
Nettlefold Hollow. Teenager, Amity, claims she see things in the shadows and
refuses to go out at night. Her classmates laugh at her until she goes missing
on the way home from school. When her best friend, Samantha, looks in Amity's
locker and finds her diary, she learns that Amity was being haunted by a fairy
prince. Who can she rely on to help her with a problem like that?
Screams for the Dying is a short science fiction story that blends
myth, fantasy and science fiction. In the time in which this short story is
set, banshees and star ships are real, and so are a lot of other things. An Anthology of Worlds is available from Smashwords, Kobo, and Amazon.
An Anthology of Blades
Book 5: The Simpson Anthologies
Author: C.M. Simpson
TBR: 2013
Axes, swords, knives, cursed, blessed or from the Otherlands, An Anthology of Blades is all about things that cut, slice, dice or amputate. From a buried blade housing one of the protagonists from an ancient battle, to axes wielded by a barbarian at the crossroads of destiny, all the short stories and poems contained in this anthology have one common theme—they are all blades.
The Buried Blade When
the grass in one of her uncle's fields starts to die, Amanda tries to work out
why, but her uncle only sees stones, where she sees fragments of pottery. In a
war as old as time, will Amanda convince her uncle of the truth, and remain
unscathed, or will she fall under the control of an old and subtle power?The Buried Blade is now available from Smashwords and Kindle and will soon be available from Kobo, iTunes and Barnes and Noble Nook.
The Soul in the Sword: When an Arach raiding
party attacks a wagon train and moves on to take on the next town, Dannon is
part of the out-riders who must clean up in their wake. The dead girl on the
wagon is just one of many reasons he doesn’t like spiders, or the elves that
ride them.
The Simpson Anthologies
Collected Short Stories, Poems and Prose from 2012
Collected Short Stories, Poems and Prose from 2012
Book 6: The Simpson Anthogies
Author: C.M. Simpson
TBR: 30 June 2013
An Anthology of Bloodlines
Book 6: The Simpson Anthologies
Author: C.M. Simpson
TBR: 2014
All things inherited by right of blood.
Old Magic: After disaster and disease wipe out the world we know,
powers carried by right of ancestry act as a sixth sense for trouble in a
ruined city. Can she be the only one to have survived?
Old Magic is one of the short stories that will be included
in An Anthology of Bloodlines. It is currently available from Smashwords and will soon be available from Kobo, Kindle, iTunes and Barnes and Noble Nook.
An Anthology of Bloodlines will be available from Smashwords, Kobo, iTunes, DriveThruFiction, CreateSpace and Kindle next year.
The Runaway is the second short story to be found in An Anthology of Bloodlines. It is also available as a stand-alone short story.
With fire and otherworldly invaders closing in, a commander takes the time to tell the story of his capture and the reasons behind his return to continue the fight. What are the secrets of his past?
The Runaway is currently available as a stand-alone title at Smashwords, Kobo, Kindle, iTunes, and Nook, but will one day be incorporated into An Anthology of Bloodlines.
Book 8: The Simpson Anthogies
Author: C.M. Simpson
Darkness and Light is
one of the short stories to be included in An Anthology of Gods and Older
Magic. It is currently only available as a stand-alone short story.
Abselia has traveled a long way to reach the trading town. Shadows move at her arrival, and light shimmers in dismay. Can light’s champion find the stronghold of shadows, and solve the puzzle of its strength, or is she doomed to failure like all who have gone before?
Darkness and Light is a short tale of dark fantasy and a battle older than time. It is currently available as a stand-alone title at Smashwords, but will shortly become available at Kobo, Kindle, and iTunes. It is one of the stories which will be incorporated into An Anthology of Gods and Older Magic.
Gods in the Lianreida is available from Smashwords, Amazon-Kindle,
Nook, iTunes, Kobo and CreateSpace.
The Runaway is the second short story to be found in An Anthology of Bloodlines. It is also available as a stand-alone short story.
With fire and otherworldly invaders closing in, a commander takes the time to tell the story of his capture and the reasons behind his return to continue the fight. What are the secrets of his past?
The Runaway is currently available as a stand-alone title at Smashwords, Kobo, Kindle, iTunes, and Nook, but will one day be incorporated into An Anthology of Bloodlines.
The Simpson Anthologies
Collected Short Stories, Poems and Prose from 2013
Collected Short Stories, Poems and Prose from 2013
Book 8: The Simpson Anthogies
Author: C.M. Simpson
TBR: 30 June 2013
An Anthology of Gods and Older MagicBook 9: The Simpson Anthologies
Author: C.M. Simpson
TBR: 2015
Abselia has traveled a long way to reach the trading town. Shadows move at her arrival, and light shimmers in dismay. Can light’s champion find the stronghold of shadows, and solve the puzzle of its strength, or is she doomed to failure like all who have gone before?
Darkness and Light is a short tale of dark fantasy and a battle older than time. It is currently available as a stand-alone title at Smashwords, but will shortly become available at Kobo, Kindle, and iTunes. It is one of the stories which will be incorporated into An Anthology of Gods and Older Magic.
Gods in the Lianreaida is a story of high magic and the gods.
When
Larias, god of problem-solving and secrets, flies over the forbidden lands of
the elves, he only hopes to discover what force is powerful enough to breach
the elven magic protecting the forest. What he finds, instead, is a battle in
which he is compelled to intervene, but, regardless of intent, when gods meddle
in the realms of other gods, there is always a price to pay.
Gods in the Lianreida is a short story taken from Shadow’s
Fall, the third novel in the Shadow series. It is currently available
as a chapter in that novel or a stand-alone story, but will be eventually
incorporated in An Anthology of Gods and Older Magic, and the collection, Short
Stories and Poetry from 2013.
Magick
on the Forest’s Edge is a fantasy short story, where two children investigate a magical
alarm, and face the consequences of trying to do the right thing against great
odds.
Forced to flee with her village, priestly
apprentice, Althessa, discovers that danger comes in many guises and salvation
is often unexpected. When their undead pursuers are slain by an unknown force,
Althessa assists her mistress in consecrating their remains to ensure they
cannot return from the dead, yet again. But magick calls from a nearby forest,
and another life is in danger. One of those responsible for bringing down their
pursuers is balanced on the edge of death. With the priests too busy to assist,
and only her wizardly brother to help her, can Althessa perform the healing
required, or will the attempt bring death to all who dare it?
An Anthology of Minds
Book 10: The Simpson Anthogies
Author: C.M. Simpson
TBR: 2016
Mind games, virtual realities, figments of the imagination and the power of ideas.
Danzer is a
VR combat star. Unfortunately, somebody wants him dead. Is it a private
vendetta from someone he’s defeated, a disgruntled fan, or someone else
entirely. Whoever they are, their poetry stinks, but its meaning is clear.
Security personnel for the VR games insist on overseeing the match between him
and his most dangerous opponent, but no one knows if it will be enough. Will
Security succeed in their intervention, or will their efforts result in more
than Danzer losing their lives?
A Battle of Minds is a speculative science fiction
short story about what the world of virtual gaming might be like. It is
available from Smashwords, Kobo, Kindle, Amazon, Nook and
Kobo. It will one day be incorporated into An Anthology of Minds.
An Anthology of Pseudoscience
Book 11: The Simpson Anthogies
Author: C.M. Simpson
TBR: 2017
Pseudo-science, the art of dressing up the impossible so that, at first glance, it appears to be scientifically plausible.
Corporate Loyalty: is an short pseudo-science adventure
a la the 1950’s. Its science is unlikely; its people and their motivations are
not.
When
a leading ‘bug’ researcher is returned to normal size early, he discovers the
science which alters his size has a flaw. Can his best friend help him out of
the trouble he’s in?
Corporate Loyalty is one of the short stories that
will be incorporated into An Anthology of Pseudo-Science. It is currently
available as a stand-alone short story, and can be found at Smashwords and Kindle. It will
shortly be available from Kobo, Nook and iTunes.
Pigs Might Fly: is
a story of magic realism, where the world we see is only nearly as it seems to
be.
Pigs Might Fly is currently available as a stand-alone title
at Smashwords, Kobo, Kindle, iTunes and Nook, but will one day be incorporated
into An
Anthology of Sorcery and Magic.
Of
Hunters and the Color Blue is the first short story to be found in The
Loft Anthology. It is also available as a stand-alone short story.
A letter reveals the writer’s love for her daughter, and her reasons for leaving the child behind. It is a tale of flight and rescue, the birth of an AI, and reveals a weakness that plagues the deadly enemy on her trail.
Of Hunters and the Color Blue is currently available as a stand-alone story, but will be included in The Loft Anthology, and the 2013 collection of short stories and poetry. It can be found at Smashwords, Kobo, Amazon-Kindle, iTunes, and Nook.
An Anthology of Sorcery and Magic
Book 12: The Simpson Anthologies
Author: C.M. Simpson
TBR: 2018
Pigs Might Fly: is
a story of magic realism, where the world we see is only nearly as it seems to
be.
All her life Lily has prepared herself for
taking over the family farm. The property talks to her, the animals and plants
thrive under her care, and even the old tractor bends to her will. Her brothers
have other careers planned, and help Lily position herself to take over when
they are gone, but her father has other ideas. He wants to pass the farm on to
one of his sons. He says pigs might fly before a girl would be any good at
running a farm. How is Lily going to convince him that farming is the only
thing she has ever wanted to do, and that she is the best of his offspring to take
over when he is gone? And what do her dreams and hopes have to do with flying
pigs?
An Anthology of Mythical Creatures
Book 13: The Simpson Anthologies
Author: C.M. Simpson
TBR: 2019
Gulvane and the Dragon is a fantasy short story about an unexpected meeting between a long-lived elf and a dragon.
Preparing for a new era in his life, the wizard
Gulvane walks the corridors of his mind, remembering the eras locked behind
three doors. Forester, Fighter, Assassin. Behind each door lie the memories and
skills of who and what he used to be, inaccessible, unless he chose to return
to the professions he had left. Uncertain of where his life will lead him, or
of what he will become, Gulvane wakes to find a dragon standing over his bed.
Now, what would a creature such as that want with an elf like himself?
Gulvane and the Dragon is currently available as a
stand-alone short story, but will eventually be incorporated in An
Anthology of Mythical Creatures, and the collection, Short
Stories and Poetry from 2013.
Gulvane and
the Dragon is available from Smashwords, Amazon-Kindle, Nook, iTunes, Kobo and
CreateSpace.
The Loft Anthology
Book 14: The Simpson Anthologies
Author: C.M. Simpson
TBR: 2020
A letter reveals the writer’s love for her daughter, and her reasons for leaving the child behind. It is a tale of flight and rescue, the birth of an AI, and reveals a weakness that plagues the deadly enemy on her trail.
Of Hunters and the Color Blue is currently available as a stand-alone story, but will be included in The Loft Anthology, and the 2013 collection of short stories and poetry. It can be found at Smashwords, Kobo, Amazon-Kindle, iTunes, and Nook.
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