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Below, you'll find free short stories available for download and a few sample chapters from my novels.
 
The first short story, "The Spinner," is a maritime fantasy story set in the world of New Dineen.  It originally appeared in Sails and Sorcery: Tales of Nautical Fantasy, from Fantasist Enterprises.
 
The second short story, "The Signal," is a Lovecraftian horror/suspense story originally published in Horrors Beyond II, and which received an honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008, edited by Datlow, Link, and Grant.
 
The last story, "All the Sinners Saints," features my signature character, Erevis Cale, and it fits into the "Cale continuum" between the end of Shadow's Witnessand the beginning of Twilight Falling
 
Download all of them and enjoy.  They'll give you a decent feel for my style of writing. 
 
As for the sample chapters, I used to have a bunch here, but then deleted them.  Why?   Because they have been surpassed, superseded, literally had their asses handed to them by the test drives of Twilight Falling here, or Shadowbred here, each of which features the first five chapters of those novels.
 
Fare thee well, single sample chapters.  We hardly knew ye.  Meanwhile, gentle reader, enjoy the short stories and the test drives.   
 

The Spinner

The Signal

All the Sinners Saints, an Erevis Cale short story