Birthnight
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Short story of 6k words
On the night that Christ was born, he received many visitors, and among those, unchronicled, the vast host of the legendary creatures who still roamed the world: the dragon, the unicorn, the phoenix, and the Queen of all Faerie, to name only a few.
The immortals were called by a strange, unknown constellation, drawn to the child whose birth would herald the start of a new age—and the end of an old one.
Michelle Sagara
New York Times bestselling author Michelle Sagara writes as both Michelle Sagara and Michelle West; she is also published as Michelle Sagara West. She lives in Toronto with her long-suffering husband and her two children, and to her regret has no dogs. She can be found @msagara on Twitter or http://msagarawest.wordpress.com
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Birthnight - Michelle Sagara
Birthnight
by Michelle Sagara
Rosdan Press, 2011
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
SMASHWORDS EDITION: 978-1-927094-14-3
Copyright 2011 by Michelle Sagara
All rights reserved
Cover design by Anneli West, Four Corners Communication
Dragon: photoshop brush by Rob Marks/Breezy.com
Palm trees: photoshop brush by horhewbrushes.com
Birthnight
Copyright 1992 by Michelle Sagara. First appeared in Christmas Bestiary, ed. Rosalind M. Greenberg and Martin H. Greenberg.
Introduction Copyright 2003 by Michelle Sagara. First appeared in Magical Beginnings ed. Steven H. Silver and Martin H. Greenberg.
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Novels by Michelle Sagara
The Book of the Sundered
Into the Dark Lands
Children of the Blood
Lady of Mercy
Chains of Darkness, Chains of Light
Chronicles of Elantra
Cast in Shadow
Cast in Courtlight
Cast in Secret
Cast in Fury
Cast in Silence
Cast in Chaos
Cast in Ruin
Cast in Peril (September 20, 2011)
The Queen of the Dead
Silence*
Touch**
Grave**
*Forthcoming in 2012
**Forthcoming
Table of Contents
Introduction
Birthnight
Other Stories by the Author
Introduction
Memory is a tricky thing. When I decided I would reprint all of my short stories as individual ebooks, I also decided I would take the time—and space—to write introductions for each of the stories. But Birthnight had been reprinted once, in 2003, for a collection of first stories by various authors. So I already had an introduction for the short story. Except, rereading it, there are things I don’t remember, in 2011, the way I did in 2003.
Other things have changed. I am not, obviously, working on the fifth book of The Sun Sword now. I am, on the other hand, working on the fifth book of House War now, and I thought that would be