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Birthnight
Birthnight
Birthnight
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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.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherRosdan Press
Release dateAug 18, 2011
ISBN9781927094143
Birthnight
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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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    Yes this is a short story but WOW!! absolutely beautiful! I was surprised, for I was not expecting what this author put before me. Truly magical, what an amazing spin!

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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

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