Black Orchids from Aum

Aum.

City of Gates.

The Lost City.

The Cursed City.


Come to Aum, where anything can be bought. Come ready to bargain for love, for power, for dreams. Just remember, the price must always be paid.


Included in this collection of fantasy short stories:


The Collector of Delinquent Accounts

The Incomplete Reliquary

Shing of the Bridge Folk

The Yellow Play

Cure for the Plague

The Face of the Messenger

Black Orchids from Aum

A King Comes to Aum

The Reed from Hell

Forgotten Woman

While Waiting for Evening

A Piper in the Necropolis

Dying Fires

The Sea in Silence