Guilds & Glaives

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Stop right there! If you like your fantasy filled with fellowships and noble quests, this anthology is not for you. And if you love lengthy tales of politics and power, then it won’t be to your taste either. But if you like a little intimacy with your evil, and your vengeance short and sweet, with perhaps a pinch of silliness in the witchcraft, then these fourteen delicious sweetmeats of sword and sorcery will prove right up your alley. And it will be a dank, twisting, fetid alley, too.

In this book you will find no high elves , no politics , and certainly no nobility. Come explore the perilous streets and clashing blades found in Guilds & Glaives.

Contents:
* Introduction • essay by S. C. Butler
* In the Asps' Nest / short story by Lawrence Harding I
* The Sword and the Djinn / short story by Howard Andrew Jones
* Honors Among Thieves / short story by Esther M. Friesner [as by Esther Friesner]
* Rainbow Dark / short story by Charles Ingrid [as by Jenna Rhodes]
* The Three Assassins of Lord Slaughter / short story by Gini Koch [as by Anita Ensal]
* Footprints of the Hound / short story by Violette Malan
* The Witch That Wasn't / short story by Leah Webber
* Oathbreaker / short story by Dave Wolverton [as by David Farland]
* Blood and Onyx / short story by R. K. Nickel
* The Charter / short story by Ashley McConnell
* Guild of the Ancients / short story by David B. Coe [as by D. B. Jackson]
* The Cage at the End of the World / short story by James Enge
* Assassinsssss / short story by Jason Palmatier
* Those Who Look Back / short story by Amelia Sirina

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