Kat Otis was born with a surplus of creativity and quickly learned to cope by telling stories to anyone who would listen. When she’s not writing, she’s an historian, mathematician, singer, and photographer. She lives a peripatetic life with a pair of cats who enjoy riding in the car as long as there’s no country music involved. Her short fiction has previously appeared in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Daily Science, Fiction and Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword & Sorceress XXVI.
Ten spiraling stone steps led down to the dungeon. I dashed down them, the flames of the wall sconces wavering with the wind of my passage. Although I still held my sword at the ready, I found no one left… Continue Reading
Lysandra glared across the wide desk at her second cousin and erstwhile manager. “You can’t fire me!” “I believe I just did.” Pyralis idly tossed the golden apple up into the air. “But it’s the family business,” Lysandra spluttered. “And… Continue Reading
Lady Arabella Spenser was day-dreaming of monsters and knights in shining armor when her carriage abruptly stopped in the middle of the woods. Rudely called back to reality by the oddity, Arabella pulled back the window curtain to see what… Continue Reading
The man who answered my knock was a twitchy, weaselly-looking fellow. His eyes darted around nervously as he cracked open his front door and demanded, “You him?” “I’m him,” I agreed, holding up my briefcase. “I have the contract, right… Continue Reading