The Reluctant Groom and Other Historical Stories

“I was immediately engrossed in these few historical periods and wish I could read more of the characters. The periods are terribly alive, the storytelling wonderful…one has short glimpses of these people and somehow you feel you have known them a long time and want to see them about.”

–Stephanie Cowell, author of Claude and Camille: A Novel of Monet

 

Slow Death and Other Dark Tales

“Looking for sparkly vampires or heroic werewolves? Sorry, you won’t find them here. Humans (and the occasional ghost) intent on murder, revenge, and righting wrongs take center stage in these tales.”

Time Again and Other Fantastic Stories

“What would you do with an extra hour of life? Kiss your sweetheart? Eat ice cream? Graffiti your workplace? Find out how one man uses his bonus hour in the award-winning story “Time Again.” Then check out how a young woman deals with a transforming experience, business consultant Alice overhauls Wonderland, a fierce mother takes on the devil who wants to marry her daughter.”

Circles in the Hair

“Enjoy this gourmet sampling of the boldest and most accomplished of today’s new voices in Fantasy, SF and Horror.  A delight to read.”

—Terry Bisson, Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author

Enjoy historical fiction? Like short stories?

Then dive into this collection of historical shorts by an award-winning author. You’ll find stories of heroism, love, and adventure such as a panicked bachelor faced with an arranged marriage, a man battling a blizzard to get home for his child’s birth, a Viking shield maiden exploring a new world, and a young boy torn between love for his ailing grandmother and duty to an Empress. Whether set in imperial Rome, colonial America, or the ancient African Kingdom of Kush, these stories bring to life men and women struggling to survive and thrive—the eternal human condition.

A Raggedy Moon Collection Volume #3

  • Title: The Reluctant Groom and Other Historical Stories
  • Author: Faith L. Justice
  • Publisher: Raggedy Moon Books (November 2015)
  • ISBN-10: 0692544445
  • ISBN-13: 978-0692544440
  • Formats:
    • Trade paperback (122 pages) $6.99
    • eBook (Kindle, epub) $2.99
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“I was immediately engrossed in these few historical periods and wish I could read more of the characters. I loved the shy, good reluctant bridegroom, stammering awfully and five feet tall who really does find someone to love him against all odds and the little Roman boy Angelus leading an escaping charming princess and her party through a swamp in hopes of earning enough to provide for his weak elderly grandmother (who is about 48 years old!). The periods are terribly alive, the storytelling wonderful…one has short glimpses of these people and some others and somehow you feel you have known them a long time and want to see them about. And yet it is wonderful to have them just in these brief times in their lives, the way we often meet people we like immensely, get very involved with their lives for a few days or weeks, and years after, remember them with great fondness!” –Stephanie Cowel, author of Claude and Camille: A Novel of Monet

 

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Looking for sparkly vampires or heroic werewolves?

Sorry, you won’t find them here.

Humans—and the occasional ghost—intent on murder, revenge, and righting wrongs take center stage in these tales. Meet a grieving mother witnessing a death-row execution, a wronged bureaucrat condemned to a future drug rehabilitation center, an Alzheimer’s patient trapped in his own deteriorating mind, a ghost on a mission of justice, and more in this collection of the author’s best dark fiction

A Raggedy Moon Collection Volume #2

  • Title: The Reluctant Groom and Other Historical Stories
  • Author: Faith L. Justice
  • Publisher: Raggedy Moon Books (November 2015)
  • ISBN-10: 0692544445
  • ISBN-13: 978-0692544440
  • Formats:
    • Trade paperback (122 pages) $6.99
    • eBook (Kindle, epub) $2.99
    • Audiobook (Audible and iTunes) $6.95 (FREE with 30-day trial)

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What would you do with an extra hour of life?

Kiss your sweetheart? Eat ice cream? Graffiti your workplace?

Find out how one man uses his bonus hour in the award-winning story “Time Again.” Then check out how a young woman deals with a transforming experience, business consultant Alice overhauls Wonderland, a fierce mother takes on the devil who wants to marry her daughter, and more in this collection of five of the authors best fantasy stories.

Contains a bonus interview with acclaimed fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin.

A Raggedy Moon Collection Volume #1

  • Title: Time Again and Other Fantastic Stories
  • Author: Faith L. Justice
  • Publisher: Raggedy Moon Books (September 2013)
  • ISBN-10: 1484883861
  • ISBN-13: 978-1484883860
  • Formats:
    • Trade paperback (92 pages) $5.99
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“Time Again” won honors as a finalist in the Writer’s of the Future Contest.

“Better the Devil” won Honorable Mention by Ellen Datlow in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Collection as well as honors as a finalist in the Writer’s of the Future Contest

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CIRCLES IN THE HAIR, an anthology by the members of CITH, features the work of Linda Addison, five-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award; Faith L. Justice author of Tokoyo, the Samurai’s Daughter; Gerard Houarner, author of Road to Hell; Gordon Linzner, editor emeritus of Space & Time Magazine; plus many more.

The stories are set in times as distant as Bronze Age China and the far flung future; and in places as strange as a courthouse in Brooklyn and the Edge of the universe. Meet a were-moose, aboriginal spirits, a fetal vampire, and the devil’s mother-in-law. These stories evoke laughter, tears, shivers, and thoughtfulness. Five were singled out for Honorable Mention by Ellen Datlow in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Collection, including Faith’s story “Better the Devil” (which is also available in Time Again and Other Fantastic Stories).

  • Title: Circles in the Hair
  • Editors: Faith L. Justice and Gordon Linzner
  • Publisher: Raggedy Moon Books (2005)
  • ISBN-10: 1591137659
  • ISBN-13: 978-1591137658
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Five stories earned Honorable Mention by Ellen Datlow in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Collection, including Faith’s story “Better the Devil.”

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