Darrell Awards First Runner-up, Best Short Story. Number 28, Summer 2007. Winner, Illuminata Speculative Fiction Contest. Honorable Mention, Flash Fiction Contest. Winner of the 2012 Darrell Award for Best Novella. A MAGE OF NONE MAGIC. The Heart of the Sisters, Book One. Winner of the 2010 Darrell Award for Best Novel. The Heart of the Sisters, Book Two.

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Fine linen curtains billowed and played about her in the early morning chill. The nights recently had turned cold enough to redden the nose and cheeks as one strolled the College grounds. She suppressed a shiver and hugged the ancient book in her arms. Soon there would be snow. When the College was first formed, the Board of Elders agreed that those studying within its walls, delving deeply into the realm.

Niel stood blissfully immersed in the squawks of gulls overhead and the rumble of the surf below. Before him stretched a shimmering prairie of sapphire whose sharp, salty fragrance delighted his senses every bit as its enormity confounded them. At one time Niel had nurtured an honest, simple yearning to see the ocean from the deck of a ship. Experiencing something so much larger than himself had held a fascination since childhood. Yet despite the grand view before him,.