Forged: A Fantasy Short Story

By Margaret McGaffey Fisk

2010 SFReader.com winner (third place).

First time in eBook format.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Margaret McGaffey Fisk
• Release date: Aug 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781631390067

Margaret McGaffey Fisk

Margaret McGaffey Fisk is a storyteller whose tales often cross genres and worlds to bring events and characters to life. She currently writes steampunk, romance, science fiction, and fantasy but will go wherever the story takes her. Foreign Service brat, data entry clerk, veterinary tech, editor, manager, and freelance programmer are among the roles she’s lived, giving depth to the cultures and people that form the heart of her works. As her website is titled, she offers tales to tide you over.

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PRAISE FOR THE BOOKS OF

MARGARET McGAFFEY FISK

Secrets

Through her young heroine and hero, the author breathes life into a curious, exciting and often dangerous world of steam, sail, sentient machines, loyal friendships and deeds of quiet bravery undertaken in the face of widespread fear and bigotry, to deliver a clever, entertaining and unique new take on Victorian Steampunk.

— David Bridger, author of A Flight of Thieves (Sky Ships) —

Shafter

Trina’s life revolves around protecting her family and as a shafter, the lowest of Ceric society, her choices are limited to what she can steal. However, a chance at a new life aboard a colony-bound ship teaches her a new way of life and the price of unquestioned loyalty in this exciting tale, rich with cultural world building and science fiction adventure. This is a story you’ll love, with a tale you won’t want to see end!

— Lazette Gifford, author of Glory —

While the heroine yearns for another world, you’ll crave any universe, any tale, created by this exciting new speculative fiction author. In Shafter, McGaffey Fisk delivers an inter-planetary colony system and populates it with complex and sympathetic characters. Travel from the tunnels of Ceric to the stars beyond with a master thief and her master storyteller.

— Valerie Comer, author of Majai’s Fury —

Back Cover Text

A swordsmith’s unappreciated apprentice puts her career, and even her life, on the line to confront a knight with a deadly secret.

FORGED

Margaret McGaffey Fisk

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Cover Art by Holly Lisle and Margaret McGaffey Fisk

TTO Publishing logo design by Blue Harvest Creative

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Forged

Copyright 2011 by Margaret McGaffey Fisk

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eBook edition created 2014

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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