Mary M Raichle

Shadows shifted over the walls like insects creeping out of the corners in scuttling waves that advanced, retreated, advanced, retreated. Corey watched, teeth gritted. He couldn't cry. He couldn't...

Few dragons collected teapots. Youneda didn't care. They pleased him and his hoard was worth enough to allow him a comfortable life in the suburbs. Nothing bothered him anymore. At least until a new...

Cain is a debt slave with the soul of a Master, owned by Dave Tucker who wants nothing more than to submit. Their relationship, scandalous in its reversals, has to be a secret but when the notorious...

Naya found certain aspects of her job... difficult. The excessively controlled environment, the fussy clothes, the endless paperwork. But dealing with the passengers on the space cruiser during their...

Newlywed Falak and her wife Steise hoped that moving to one of the newly opened space stations orbiting beyond Mars would give them a chance at a whole new life. At the very least, it got them away...

Gisela paused, one foot planted on a fallen log, the other buried in a mound of long brown pine needles. Beaten, cast out with her sisters, Gisela burned with fury that Harbart had turned on her this...

Trapped at his father's court, Coby believed that he would live and die by his father's tyrannical rules. But Coby's lover Rodolf had no intention of allowing that to happen. Stolen in the dead of...

Archaelaos: Distant island where men ruled, against all the laws of nature.When Anwyn's friend Iola got a letter to come home, Anwyn decided to go with her. A quick trip to a strange land might also...

The Dana Clan: wild, unpredictable and bafflingly successful traders.Their children were even wilder, challenging social norms and each other at every turn.This collection of short stories reveals...

Quiet moments from a fantastic world: Tales of the Opening contains six stories from the Unification universe where humans and dragons argue about lawn maintenance while pixies fly overhead. Meyari...

Filming a porno earned Adhemar money to pay back his debt so that he could regain his freedom. That was a side benefit. The best part of his work was having his lover Neil underneath him as he made...

Once every ten years a Priestess tended to the temple, painting its murals. Barirah was proud to have that duty but her heart ached for the children she and her wife Jabirah had not been blessed with...

When humanity went to the stars they took many things with them. Brencis, the Eternal Librarian, ensured that they took the books. Unfortunately, humanity also took along their greed, their blindness...

Zachary had spent his entire life with a hole inside him where his God's love should be. He did his best to hide it from the people around him but it wasn't easy, especially from his friends. Caleb,...

Eoghania's quiet live changed when a man from her past tried to rob the Dana. Sean didn't want to break any laws. He certainly didn't want to fight the Dana. But he had two infant daughters who would...

Ruby's world, the artificial jungle suspended from a web of synthetic cables, threatened to collapse around her. A larger than normal storm had driven a drifting ship towards the support stanchions...

It was one of the most frustrating things in Marjory's life. Her best friend Emily was pregnant again after years of miscarriages but she wouldn't, couldn't, accept any of Marjory's charms to help...

Louisa's life revolved around her mother, her grandparents and their sewing shop. Her burgeoning magic wasn't something that concerned her. Mother and Grandmother Anna both handled it well, as did...

Living in the shadow of Spider Mountain, Gran Anna and her family's little seamstress shop prospered fairly well. Her magical gift expressed itself well through her sewing, allowing her to work tiny...

The solution to Leisl's construction problem came wrapped in an opportunity. When Cassidy came over to help Leisl install a tub in her new tiny house on wheels, Leisl expected nothing other than a...

Maria hated Anthony. The teachers at their school doted on Anthony and joined him in bullying anyone that Anthony targeted. He was Gifted and Maria wasn't so Maria was always wrong. Then Anthony's...

Dorcia's wedding plans consumed the household. Hipatia, her younger half-sister, knew that what Dorcia got for a wedding dress, a husband, a new life would never be hers. Her sister's affection and...

Amelia stopped, panting. The mountain loomed ahead, dropped away behind. Cedars had long since been replaced by scrubby wind-twisted spruce. She trusted Jen and Danny but this was huge. So huge...