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Fiction

"The Brothers Swann," Blood, Blade & Thruster: The Magazine of Speculative Fiction and Satire, Iss. 3, Fall 2007. (Story starts on page 59.)

"Kelmscott Manor: In the Attics," Challenging Destiny, No. 25, December 2007. (Available from Fictionwise at a 15% discount until July 7, 2008.)

"Garret Chapel," copyright 2001 by Lyn C. A. Gardner.

Reviews

"Twisted Cat Tales is a cat anthology ... edited by Esther Schrader with a delightful cover by husband Jack Schrader (a feline parody of Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream).... The first and last stories in the anthology are probably the best and most memorable, and neither are anthropomorphic: 'Fine Flying Things,' by C. A. Gardner, a laid-back comedy in which all cats lose their gravity and slowly float up into the sky; and 'The Last Lion,' by Fox Cutter, a bittersweet tale of the fate of the last lion in the world."

--Fred Patten, Anthro #6: Reviews by Fred Patten, 2006

"Legends of the Pendragon. Attention lovers of original stories about The Matter of Britain: Jim Lowder has put together another anthology of Arthurian short stories and this one is better than his last. ... Entries by established writers are numerous and, as one would expect, often spellbinding. Among these are an absorbing retelling of the tale of Vortigern and Hengist with Rowenna at the center of the maelstrom, authored by Nancy Varian Berberick; a very clever and unique alternative to Arthur's parentage by C. A. Gardner; and a story by Cherith Baldry that captures the true spirit of this volume, the foreshadowing of the fall of Camelot, in this case reflected in events of the early lives of Arthur and Kay. ... This volume containing twenty original short stories is an exciting new edition to the body of Arthurian fiction that keeps the legend fresh and alive."

--Larry Mendelsberg, Journal of the Oxford Arthurian Society, 2002