Free Fiction, Round Twelve

In this, our twelfth round of free Sword and Sorcery fiction, Katherine Monasterio introduces us to Forest Ranger Hazel Boncliff, presented here in her inaugural outing, Blight. As with all of the Chain Story Project fiction, this piece is available free for three months. All you have to do is to download it. If you enjoy this story, you’ll find an opportunity to read more of the author’s work, to be found via links embedded at the end of the PDF you’ll be downloading.

Forest Ranger Hazel Boncliff is a Green Speaker, a person with the magical ability to commune with plants. When the king summons Hazel and her assistant to the capital to heal the strange blight affecting his hunting grounds, she’s reluctant to help—least of all because he’s insisting his inexperienced secretary go along for the journey. But with a reward she can’t refuse and the blight’s effects more harrowing by the moment, she’ll take all the help she can get.

To get your free copy of Blight, just click on the title or the image above.

Whether editing fiction, RPG sourcebooks, or podcast anthologies, Katherine lives for strengthening the written word. She lives for creating it, too, as the author of various novels, novellas, and award-winning short stories. She hails from Cincinnati, Ohio, where her non-wordsmithing hobbies include playing video games and thinking about fictional characters a normal amount.