Author: Tara Maya

The Unfinished Song: Initiate (Start at the Beginning of the Novel) “The Savage,” by evilrandomguyblah Kavio “Zumo?” Auntie Ugly asked her son. More slowly than his mother, Zumo picked a stone. He threw it on the black mat. He had to walk by where Kavio knelt on the adobe floor to reach his seat again. Just…

Open your eyes to darkness. What do you see? Does the darkness frighten you? Now imagine the darkness being the cargo hold of a slave ship. Your city has fallen. Your family is most likely dead. You don’t know anyone around you, and some of them aren’t even human. Giving up would be so easy…

The Unfinished Song: Initiate (Start at the Beginning of the Novel) “Single beam” by Paulo Cammeli   …on behalf of the accusers,” Auntie Ugly said with ill-concealed relish. “Kavio committed the most serious crime of which a Zavaedi dancer is capable. He concocted his own Pattern, a dance unknown to our ancestors. He cannot name the…

A Fairy Tale, Coming of Age Fantasy Leah Vindral is suffocating—trapped in her own skin. In a land where magic is feared, magic saved her from death … but it came with a terrible price. Marked forever, she is shunned and isolated by those she loves most. Brimming with bitter rage at those who abandoned…

If you can’t take the heat… stay away from the flame. Katie Parks has been on her own since the age of fifteen. All she’s ever wanted is a place to call her own—a life that is wholly hers that no one can take away. She thought she finally had it, but with the strike…

The Unfinished Song: Initiate (Start at the Beginning of the Novel)   “Hunk” by Carnivora88 … secret societies. From the squeeze of costumed bodies, it looked as though every dancer in the Labyrinth was in attendance. All were masked. Many of the masks sprouted huge fans of woven cane, feather tufts, or carved wooden animal…

The Unfinished Song: Initiate (Start at the Beginning of the Novel) “My Secret Garden” by AlleyCatz   Dindi …see her play with the fae. The swarm of whirling faery dancers moved up the mountain, without ever missing a step. Dindi moved with them, keeping up easily with their improvised patterns of skips, turns, kicks and…

The Unfinished Song: Initiate (Start at the Beginning of the Novel) “Fine tunes of magic” by Maria van Bruggen Dindi … giggled. “She just can can’t express herself because she’s so overwhelmed with joy that with her chores out of the way she is now free to dance with us.” Dindi frowned. “Are you sick, Dindi?”…