Free short stories
14 companion stories from 2 of her worlds, each one told by somebody standing just outside the novel it belongs to. All of them are here in full — 84,020 words, no email, no retailer, nothing to claim. They are grouped by series below and listed in the order they are meant to be read.
A note on heat, in her words: the companion stories close the door. The novels do not.
Leverage & Lust
Companion to Book 1 · Leverage & Lust
Conviction & Collateral
You want to know what conviction actually costs? Not belief. Belief is free.
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Companion to Book 1 · Leverage & Lust
Circuit Breaker
You want to know who actually decides whether you get your money out?
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Companion to Book 2 · Leverage & Lust
Fair Value
You want to know what a thing is worth? Ask what somebody just paid for one.
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Companion to Book 2 · Leverage & Lust
Short Interest
I found people who were going to have to sell.
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Companion to Book 3 · Leverage & Lust
Finder’s Fee
You want to know what a loss looks like when it belongs to a country? It looks like a document.
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Companion to Book 3 · Leverage & Lust
Terminal Value
Two things, and everybody only ever remembers one of them.
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The Wardens of the Wild
Companion to Book 1 · The Wardens of the Wild
Thirty-One Degrees Below
The third legal pad was the problem.
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Companion to Book 1 · The Wardens of the Wild
What the Glacier Keeps
The stratigraphy was wrong.
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Companion to Book 1 · The Wardens of the Wild
The Warmest Thing in the Room
The sat-phone should not have rung.
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Companion to Book 2 · The Wardens of the Wild
Thirty-One Names
It was the kind of thing you did, when you had spent ten thousand years cataloguing what remained after something was removed.
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Companion to Book 2 · The Wardens of the Wild
The Night Survey
Dario had driven forty minutes of logging road to get to Station 9, and the machine was not vandalized.
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Companion to Book 3 · The Wardens of the Wild
Every Hollow Has a Name for It
I do not know what reviewing looks like for something without hands but I use the word because no other word is accurate.
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Companion to Book 3 · The Wardens of the Wild
What the Mountain Keeps
The mountains did not care what Beckley reported.
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Companion to Book 3 · The Wardens of the Wild
Brannoch in the Burning Season
The smoke column was reading wrong.
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None of these 14 are sold anywhere. The rest of the catalogue — novels and novellas — is on the books page, and the one title that is free but not here is Room Tone, which goes only to the newsletter.