You can read this for free or buy the issue over at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

A wonderful short story following a Sister of the Order of Soothers as she attempts to get to the Grand Benevolence of the Holy City of Aurth.   Fantasy at its best.

And . . .

. . . it’s free to read as well: what more can you ever possibly desire?   Perhaps a super big mug of cocoa while you read it, made the way you really like it?

Next up in my P. Djèlí Clark reading journey is The Black God’s Drums.

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You can read this for free, or buy the issue, over at Apex Magazine.

So i’m continuing on my journey of Djèlí’s wonderfully refreshing fantasy.   In this story, Ayen’s husband has died and he won’t leave her, and as a poltergeist he causes her to be driven out of her tribe.   So off she goes in search of someone to help her exorcise his ghost from her mind.

But all is not as Ayen first believes it to be.

Really, really good.

Next up in the Djèlí timeline is A Tale of Woe, from 2018.

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You can find this in the anthology, Griots: Sword and Soul.

I was hoping for more of the similar and i wasn’t disappointed.

Once again we’re thrown right into North-African/Middle-Eastern folk lore kind of stuff with Djèlí’s incredible writing that just keeps dragging you along without a pause.

Djèlí’s writing is so refreshing, and i’m so looking forward to reading many more of his stories in the future.

Next up in the Djèlí timeline is Ghost Marriage.

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Available in the anthology, The Best of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly: Vol 1.

Having just read Djèlí’s Dead Djinn books and totally enjoyed them, i had no choice in my good book reading avarice but to go hunting for everything i could find by Djèlí and start reading it all in publication order, and you guessed it, Shattering the Spear is, i think, the first story published.

Shattering the Spear seems to me to be based upon an African tribal warrior, in a land that reminds one of those vast pictures of African grasslands.   It’s also full of Animist religious ideas, which, being an Animist myself, is really nice to find in a book these days.   There’s also some good fight/action scenes, with the same great writing that you find in the Dead Djinn books.   In fact, there’s quite a lot packed into this short story.

Next up on the Djèlí list is Skin Magic, but before i get around to that i’ve got a few other writers and their books to catch up with and read first.

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The third book in the Dead Djinn Universe, and is very similar to A Dead Djinn in Cairo, although with mostly different characters and a lot more pages to enjoy.

Once again, wonderfully written, keeps on a moving, interesting characters, great descriptions.

The only thing left to do is to read A Master of Djinn, which is a rather good length novel that i’m so looking forward to devouring.

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