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The first episode of the _Modern_Magic_ story cycle. See http://www.annecordwainer.com for more information on the whole cycle. 17-year-old Liz attends John's college graduation, despite her ferocious avoidance of magic. A threat to the ceremony's keynote speaker leads to heightened security. The experience awakens every memory of feeling second-class, and culminates in a screaming match with John. Squabbles are forgotten when the entire ceremony is taken hostage. Since the villain has access to the school's magical power reserves, there's nothing any sorcerer on the outside can do. How can a couple of kids defeat a powerful and experienced sorcerer bent on destruction?
Two years later, John, just turned 21 and still in grad school, is dispatched on his first hunt for a renegade sorcerer—alone. With most of his magical experience limited to academia, he's secretly frantic about screwing up. His worst fears are almost realized when the renegade takes Liz hostage and seizes all his magical tools. Outgunned and confronting a dangerous sorcerer face-to-face, John has only minutes to defeat the bad guy and save his sister's life.
Liz' quiet mundane life is disrupted by a threat from a mentally troubled relative. Her family close ranks to protect her, but she's more concerned about her boyfriend learning about magic prematurely. A trap springs when John arrives. Liz is left unharmed, while John is missing and in grave danger. Can she find and free him in time, while keeping her boyfriend away from knowledge of magic?
John, still in grad school, is madly in love with mundane Melanie when he meets long-lost second cousin Paul.
Liz, now in New York City, stumbles across Lily, a runaway from a community of sorcerer isolationists. Lily is seeking her nephew, who was abandoned at birth because he was mundane. Liz summons John to find the baby and aid Lily's escape from the isolationists. John guards Liz and Lily's escape, but is outnumbered and in great danger. With no time to plan, he makes a grave error in judgment which will haunt him for the rest of his life.
A fantasy short story by Anne Cordwainer. This is set in an earlier time of the Modern Magic world (but stands alone as a story). It's a sort-of sequel to "An Incident at Roanoke." If you enjoy it, please drop me a line. About a century after the Roanoke problem, the American coast is colonized. But there's big trouble in Massachusetts. Witch-hunts again? In the Colonies, and after all this time? Three English sorcerers don't know what's happening, but they're determined to find out.
What happened to the Roanoke colony is no real mystery, but some of what happened there has been unknown until now.
A fantasy short-short story, about 1350 words. A nation needs its heroes, but is heroism really about the great deeds?
Kevin doesn't just *feel* different from other people. His parents found him in the wreckage of a spaceship. Now he's a man, but he'll never be a human.
Sarah's worried because her son refuses to believe that his older brother is really dead.
