Windrose Short Stories/Novellas
A novelette of 14,000 words - Sequel to Hambly's Windrose novels. An inter-dimensional transport corporation has run a trans-dimensional corridor through Los Angeles, and is powering it by draining the psychic energy of the population in its path, driving large numbers of people temporarily insane. Exiled wizard Antryg Windrose and his partner, computer programmer Joanna Sheraton, attempt to put a stop to this.
Novelette of 15,000 words - Sequel to Hambly's Windrose novels. Exiled wizard Antryg Windrose and his partner, computer programmer Joanna Sheraton, discover that a trans-dimensional monster is hiding in the now-deserted luxury "rance" of a deceased rock-star... and the monster is about to spawn.
A novelette of 15,000 words. The Personal Paradise Secure Community Corporation specializes in producing tiny enclave universes as vacation homes for the rich and famous. Unfortunately, something goes wrong with their Void technology and all these enclaves - and everyone in them - lose touch with the corporation's central computer. Exiled wizard Antryg Windrose and his partner, computer programmer Joanna Sheraton, are hired to find out what the problem is, and to bring the enclaves back, before the enclaves themselves collapse (killing everyone in them). And Joanna suspects that the corporate representatives have not told her and Antryg the whole truth of what the enclaves are, or how the problem appeared.
A novelette of 14,000 words - A Las Vegas hotel is haunted by a trans-dimensional being which has started killing the hotel's guests. Exiled wizard Antryg Windrose and his partner, computer programmer Joanna Sheraton, are hired to investigate, and discover not one trans-dimensional being, but two: one of them criminal, the other insane.
A novelette of 16,000 words. Computer programmer Joanna Sheraton's hippie mother asks the help of her daughter's partner - exiled wizard Antryg Windrose - in getting rid of a spectre which seems to be haunting the New Age Consciousness-Raising Center in Bayou Chien Mort, Louisiana. Upon arrival, Antryg and Joanna begin to suspect that there is a lot more going on than anyone is willing to admit, with results potentially more deadly than noises in the night and a little blood on the walls.
A novelette of 15,000 words, sequel to the Windrose Chronicles by Barbara Hambly. When the head of a Los Angeles criminal gang seeks out exiled wizard Antryg Windrose for some wizardly advice about his love-life, Antryg suspects trouble. He's right: the gang-lord's girlfriend is a lamia, a trans-dimensional soul-drinker whose victims become addicted to the process of having their souls slowly drained. Though the crook wants his freedom, he also doesn't want to give her up - and in the meantime, she is absorbing cunning, ruthlessness, and criminal intent... and is hunting others...
A novelette of 13,000 words in the Antryg Windrose series. Exiled wizard Antryg Windrose and his computer tech partner Joanna Sheraton lend a hand in making a low-budget martial-arts movie. But while filming in the Mojave Desert, it becomes obvious that someone or something from another dimension is out to kill off everybody in the project. Antryg must use all his powers to figure out what's behind this and who is really the target of the attack - BEFORE his own dojo-mates panic and decide he's to blame.