Beyond the Books

Short Fiction

Standalone stories and Notes series set in the Vampires of Tucson world — the pieces that live outside the numbered chapters.

The Myth of the First

The Myth of the First

Shipwrecked on a nameless island, Betsy Bishop spends a day underground with a stranger who calls himself Cain — and tells her what became of the first murderer, and what it cost him to be spared.

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The Road North

The Road North

Between Rocket's Prologue and Chapter 1, she got some of her memories back. Twenty notes, first person, tracing Naida's trafficking route north before the grave.

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Eyes Open

Eyes Open

Before the grave, before the novel, there was the road. Fifteen notes in Babydoll's own voice, from the night she sold herself to the cartel to the border where the dark took her.

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Flower for the Dead

Flower for the Dead

Marigold has no book to hand off to, so her whole origin lives here — from the warmth of the highlands to the cold of the grave, in her own voice.

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