Artists

I’m pleased to report that my short story “Artists” will be appearing in Rogue Blades’ Assassins: A Clash Of Steel anthology.

I’m especially pleased because the protagonist is Morgant the Razor, who I first thought up while in college, lo, these many years ago. This little excerpt from “Artists” will tell you all that you need to know about Morgant:

“You’re Morgant the Razor!  The paramount assassin of Istarinmul.  They tell stories about you, old man.  They say you’ve killed lords, emirs, high priests, great merchants, and mighty sorcerers.  You even killed the Emperor of Nighmar, and all his Imperial Guard and all his Legions could not save him.”

“Hardly,” said Morgant.  “The Emperor killed himself.  The old fool was drunk when I broke into his chamber.  I merely told him that his enemies had come to kill him, and he fled out the window to escape.  Of course, in his haste he forgot that the window was two hundred feet above the ground.”

-JM