HNR Issue 62 (November 2012)
The Raven’s Heart
The year is 1561, and Mary, Queen of Scots, has finally returned from France to claim her throne in Scotland.…
In the Land of the Long White Cloud
Editors' choice
In the Land of the Long White Cloud reminded me what it was like to get lost, really lost, in…
A Texan’s Choice
1874: Scout Proffitt, notorious gunslinger, arrives at the Bar C. He won the fifty-acre Texas ranch in a card game…
Sweet Enemy
When Liliana Claremont was a child, her father was attacked and murdered, leaving her orphaned. Though she carries on his…
Freud’s Sister
In 1938, Sigmund Freud is granted an exit visa from Vienna with certain individuals of his choice. His four elderly…
Little Century
Orphaned at age eighteen, Chicagoan Esther Chambers has no place to go. There’s nothing tying her to her childhood home…
When You Give A Duke A Diamond
Juliette, the Duchess of Dalliance, masquerades as a courtesan along with Fallon, the Marchioness of Mystery, and Lily, the Countess…
Blackberry Winter
“Blackberry winter” is a term used by farmers to describe the cold snap in spring that’s needed to set the…
Wilderness
More than thirty years have passed since the close of the Civil War, yet its ghosts and wounds still haunt…
The Shadow of Treason
This is a brisk little thriller set in the last months of WW2, during the V2 (rocket) attack on London…
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