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    Dream Flight: The Heroka stories, #0.3
    Dream Flight: The Heroka stories, #0.3
    Dream Flight: The Heroka stories, #0.3
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    Dream Flight: The Heroka stories, #0.3

    By Douglas Smith

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    A Heroka story

     

    Lilith Hoyl is a Heroka of the bird totem—a shapeshifter who hates the humans who killed her mate and hunt her kind. But when she meets a young girl awaiting a critical operation, their mutual love for birds brings joy back into both their lives.

     

    "One expects magic with this set-up, and magic does, indeed, follow, but pain cannot be forever vanquished, for either the girl or the Hoyl. The story charms as well as pains. In other hands, it would be mawkish, but Smith avoids all the pitfalls and gives us something bittersweet instead." —Fantasy Literature

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDouglas Smith
    Release dateOct 17, 2016
    ISBN9781928048206
    Dream Flight: The Heroka stories, #0.3
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    Douglas Smith

    Douglas Smith is an award-winning historian and translator and the author of Rasputin and Former People, which was a bestseller in the U.K. His books have been translated into a dozen languages. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has written for The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, National Geographic, and Netflix. Before becoming a historian, he worked for the U.S. State Department in the Soviet Union and as a Russian affairs analyst for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He lives with his family in Seattle.

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      Dream Flight - Douglas Smith

      Dream Flight

      by Douglas Smith

      A Heroka story

      Lilith Hoyl is a Heroka of the bird totem—a shapeshifter who hates the humans who killed her mate and hunt her kind. But when she meets a young girl awaiting a critical operation, their mutual love for birds brings joy back into both their lives.

      ~~

      One expects magic with this set-up, and magic does, indeed, follow, but pain cannot be forever vanquished, for either the girl or the Hoyl. The story charms as well as pains. In other hands, it would be mawkish, but Smith avoids all the pitfalls and gives us something bittersweet instead.

      —Fantasy Literature

      Table of Contents

      DESCRIPTION

      DREAM FLIGHT

      ABOUT THE STORY

      A REQUEST

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      ALSO BY DOUGLAS SMITH

      THE WOLF AT THE END OF THE WORLD

      THE HOLLOW BOYS

      COPYRIGHT PAGE

      DREAM FLIGHT

      A CRYSTAL SHADOW

      soared unnoticed over steel-glass city cliffs, flickering through visibility in a summer sun. As it passed the towers, a tremor rippled its length, breaking the rhythm of great wings. The change had begun.

      Fear rising, it scanned rooftops for the nearest landing spot then swerved toward a building marked by a white H on a blue square. The roof rushed closer as it flailed at humid air. Its talons caught on the roof edge, and a scream like breaking glass escaped it. Tripping, it ploughed across the roof, diamond-edged plumage slashing deep gouges. A small duffel bag held in a claw flew free.

      An air vent at the far side finally stopped it. Its faceted body faded again from visibility, reappeared for a wing beat, then shifted into a smaller, more recognizable shape. Lean but muscular, the naked body of a young woman lay in the creature’s place. Raven-black hair scattered over pale shoulders as she struggled to rise, only to collapse again, darkness taking her.

      ~~

      LILITH

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