Middle Grandson made this for me lo, these many years ago. Now, you can have cats or you can have an elegant tray of something spillable, but you can’t have both. So my zen garden is zenner than intended. I may have found the heart…

Because nothing says “Christmas” like people flogging merchandise, amIright? So here’s a free sample of one of the stories in my new fantasy short story collection, SHIFTY. The stories are based on the world of my SAGE fantasy trilogy, but they’re independent of it. In…