Katharine Kerr - Enchanted Forests

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Cover art by Jean-Francois Podevin.

DAW Book Collectors No. 1009.

All characters and events in this book are fictitious.

Any resemblance to persons living or dead is strictly coincidental.

If you purchase this book without a cover you should be aware that this book

may have been stolen property and reported as "unsold and destroyed" to the

publisher. In such case neither the author nor the publisher has received any

payment for this "stripped book."

First Printing, December 1995

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WDAW TRADEMARK REGISTERED

U.S. PAT. OFF. AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES

—MARCA REGISTRADA

HECHO EN U.S.A.

PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

phy.

Kreighbaum.

ers.

Both this book and I owe a thousand thanks to Jo

Clayton. Last year, when I was drowning in personal

disasters, Jo stepped in and lent a hand with finishing

up the anthology. Without all her help, this project

never would have been finished on time- Thanks, Jo, I

appreciate it more than words can say.

CONTENTS

Introduction by Katherine Kerr 9

WOODWORK

Humor and ingenuity are part of the job requirements

The Forest's Not for Burning by Katherine Lawrence 13

•TU Give You Three Wishes, ..."by Kevin

Andrew Murphy 21

The Triple Death by Ken St. Andre 38

Out of the Woods by Lawrence Watt Evans 49

SPEAKING WOODS

The view from the branches

Viridescence by Connie Hirsch 65

Fiat Silva by Jack Odkley 72

Weeds by Julia and Brook West 84

Benbow by Nancy Etchemendy 100

INHERITANCES

Different dances to a single tune

The Prism of Memory by Jo Clayton 115

The Force that through the Green Fuse by Mark

Kreighbawn 125

My Soul into the Boughs by Teresa Edgerton 135

CONTENTS

THE SCARS OF WAR

Echoes in flesh and wood

These Shoes Strangers Have Died of by Bruce

Holland Rogers

The Gearing by Lois Tilton

VICTORIAN VARIATIONS

New shoots from an old trunk

How the Ant Made a Bargain by Karawynn Long

In Fear of Little Nell by Gregory Feeley

THE NEW WORLD THAT NEVER WAS

Branchings from history

Wood Song by Kate Daniel

Virginia Woods by Janni Lee Simner

IMPOSSIBLE LOVES

Joy comes in many shapes

Ties of Love by Lawrence Schimel

The Heart of the Forest by Dave Smeds

Holy Ground by Thomas S. Roche

Ghostwood by Michelle Sagara

SANCTUARY

There is danger in the Forest but also peace

The Monsters of Mill Creek Park by Susan Shwartz

The Memory of Peace by Kate Elliott

Everything Has a Place by Barbara A. Denz

Trees Perpetual of Sleep by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

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INTRODUCTION

by Katharine Kerr

The forest was our first alien world. Our species evolved

weak except for our shaped stones, defenseless except for our

foul smell. We needed an open view, where we could see the

leopard stalking the grass, the hyena pack spreading out to

surround. As we moved out of the Rift to migrate through and

then beyond the water meadows and grasslands of the area

that's now the Sahara desert, forests began to loom dark at the

edge of our view, always alien, always dangerous, but always,

since humans are who we are, inviting us in with questions

about what we might find there.

The history of Europe is the history of the death of forests.

Hunters might stalk through them, shamans and priests might

retreat into them, shepherds and horse nomads might shun

them, but the fanners, Europe's real settlers, slashed and

burned their way through, even though it took them thousands

of years to kill all the wild places- In China, in India, the pri-

meval forest also fell before stone ax and fire. In America the

history reads the same, though the axes flashed with steel.

Our once vast forests of the Eastern states, at least, have

dwindled into parks among the plowed fields.

Yet somewhere deep in our collective psyche, the en-

chanted forest still stands, fearsome and inviting all at the

same time. In forests lurk monsters but treasures as well, evil

witches but wise hermits, tests to fail, tests to win, roads that

lead to places where magic lives and things are made new.

For this book, I asked twenty-five different authors to take a

fresh look at these forests of the mind. Although some themes

have emerged from the collection, I've been fascinated by the

wide variety of the stories I received. I hope you enjoy them

as much as I did.

WODWRK

Humor and ingenuity are part

of me job requirements

Tne Forest's Not ror Burninj

by Katnerme Lawrence

The 1994 Pima Canyon fire in Arizona's Catalina Moun-

tains inspired this story by /Catherine Lawrence. She

spends much of her time exploring the boundaries of the

Enchanted Forest as an animation scriptwriter for such se-

ries as CONAN THE ADVENTURER.

Have you any idea what it's like to live at the edge of the En-

chanted Forest, and be the Woodcutter's eldest daughter? You

know, the one out supporting the family after our parents died?

You guessed it. I was at the local market when the Duke ar-

rived and found my younger sister hauling water from the well.

I hear they have two children now.

My youngest sister was pulling up carrots when the Prince ar-

rived. I was out trying to find a new stand of trees to harvest. At

least I got an invitation to the ball they threw last month.

Oh, I've met my share of royalty, but they never quite did any-

thing for me. I mean, they were handsome, but obsessed, every

one of them. They had to have the most beautiful woman, the

most magical sword, the strongest spell, whatever. Not one of

them was seeking a competent partner with whom to share their

life.

So when those high-efficiency ceramic stoves came into use,

and the need for stacks and stacks of wood declined, I figured I

needed a new career. Woodcutting wasn't cutting it anymore, if

you'll pardon the pun.

In the Enchanted Forest and surrounding area, we have all the

witches, wizards, sorcerers, kings, princes, dragons, princesses in

14 Katherine Lawrence

peril and whatnot that anyone could want. More than enough, for

my tastes. So obviously those careers were out.

What we didn't have was a plain, old (both of which descrip-

tions were applied to me, then all of 25 years old) private inves-

tigator. So 1 did my research and found a school for that sort of

thing, not too far around The Corner in the Real World.

What do I mean by around The Corner? It's difficult to ex-

plain, but you know how sometimes you see something wonder-

ful out the corner of your eye? When you look full-on, it's gone,

but you know it was there? Well, many of those living on the

edge of the Enchanted Forest can walk around that comer and

end up in the Real World. I'm one of them.

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