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    A Prince of the Dead
    A Prince of the Dead
    A Prince of the Dead
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    A Prince of the Dead

    By K. A. Cook

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    Bones interred under the palace, gold given to field-ravaged farmers and Parliament dallying over amendments: war is ended for Prince-Regent Paide ein Iteme. Or so it should be, but returning home to Ihrne in a broken body ensorcelled by a necromancer leaves Paide struggling with politicians who ignore him and servants who condescend to him. What good is a title and purpose when his words and desires have become meaningless to those around him?

    Surviving the dismissal of the Eagle Court is harder than facing an army of shambling corpses. How does a dead soldier fight it when he no longer wishes to live?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherK. A. Cook
    Release dateJan 13, 2018
    ISBN9781370503360
    A Prince of the Dead
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    K. A. Cook

    K. A. Cook is a panalterous, aro-ace, genderless, autistic feminist who experiences chronic pain and mental illness. They write creative non-fiction, personal essays and novels about all of the above on the philosophy that if the universe is going to make life interesting, they might as well make interesting art. They are the author of several short fantasy stories combining ridiculous magic, cats, disability, bacon, mental illness, microscopic gnomes, aromanticism, the undead, verbose eldritch entities and as many transgender autistics as any one story can hold.

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      Book preview

      A Prince of the Dead - K. A. Cook

      a prince of the dead: a tale of the eagle court

      K. A. Cook

      table of contents

      imprint

      blurb

      dedication

      content advisory

      author’s note

      a prince of the dead

      additional works

      about the author

      imprint

      A Prince of the Dead, © 2018, K. A. Cook.

      Published by K. A. Cook at Smashwords.

      Produced in Geelong, Australia.

      This publication is under copyright. No part of this book may be copied, reproduced or distributed in print or electronic form without written consent from the copyright holder.

      A Prince of the Dead is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is unintentional. Any references to persons living or dead do not necessarily espouse the views of the author.

      Layout and cover design: K. A. Cook.

      Credits: Stock images from Clker-Free-Vector Images, OpenClipart-Vectors and SignsPub. Cover text typeset in Theano Didot by Alexey Kryukov and Scriptina by Apostrophic Labs.

      blurb

      Too alive to die and too dead to live.

      Bones interred under the palace, gold given to field-ravaged farmers and Parliament dallying over amendments: war is ended for Prince-Regent Paide ein Iteme. Or so it should be, but returning home to Ihrne in a broken body ensorcelled by a necromancer leaves Paide struggling with politicians who ignore him and servants who condescend to him. What good is a title and purpose when his words and desires have become meaningless to those around him?

      Surviving the dismissal of the Eagle Court is harder than facing an army of shambling corpses. How does a dead soldier fight it when he no longer wishes to live?

      dedication

      For the other K, who shares with me the fight to stay above water. I hope you realise that it is easier for me to cling to the rope while knowing that you understand the difficulty.

      content advisory

      This short story contains a few casual references to horrific choices made in war, some depiction of injury, references to the cissexism experienced by a trans character, references to the dysphoria experienced by a trans character, some of the less-pleasant fantastical aspects of reanimating the dead (especially that blowflies are going to find zombies an ideal breeding ground), and multiple depictions of and references to the ableism experienced by a physically-disabled character. The word crippled is used twice as a self-descriptor.

      Please note that this story is about the depression and suicidal ideation that so often accompanies disability when that disability is ill-supported/subject to ableism, and this story not only discusses suicidal ideation but depicts it in a way that may be confronting.

      It also includes a zombie, flawed characters making mistakes and an ending where the disabled protagonist doesn’t die. Again.

      author’s note

      A Prince of the Dead is the sequel to Their Courts of Crows. The Eagle Court isn’t so much a series as much as it is sequential short stories written about moments plucked from the characters’ lives, but they are probably best read in order.

      The characters Amelia and Kit March (who get a little more description than is quite warranted for their role in the story) belong to the short stories Old Fashioned and Conception in addition

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