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    Winter
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    Winter
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    Winter

    By Michelle Sagara

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    Originally published in Deals with the Devil, ed. Mike Resnick, Martin H. Greenberg and Loren D. Estheman. Short story of 6k words.

    Wealth, fame, power—these are the things out of which devils tempt mortals to trade away their souls. It’s a strictly favor-for-favor bargain. But even devils grow bored, and Aazian is among the oldest. What he wants is the unusual, what he creates are traps for the unwary. Those who want wealth, fame or power are easy to entrap—let others do that mundane work.

    He has taken the souls of those who would never otherwise reach his realm, twisting them slowly until they are his, and his alone. And he has been following one mortal—a mortal who asks of him something he has never before been asked.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRosdan Press
    Release dateApr 27, 2020
    ISBN9781927094372
    Winter
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    Michelle Sagara

    New York Times bestselling author Michelle Sagara writes as both Michelle Sagara and Michelle West; she is also published as Michelle Sagara West. She lives in Toronto with her long-suffering husband and her two children, and to her regret has no dogs. She can be found @msagara on Twitter or http://msagarawest.wordpress.com

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      Winter - Michelle Sagara

      Winter

      Winter

      Michelle Sagara

      Copyright © 1994 by Michelle Sagara

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      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

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      Contents

      Introduction

      Winter

      About the Author

      Also by Michelle West

      Also by Michelle Sagara

      Other Short Stories

      Introduction

      I have many of my early writings. They are fit to be read by anyone without a strong sense of mitigating affection, but they often show an odd interest in Christian myth — inexact, popularized, digested by the subconscious, so perhaps I should call it something else.

      But themes of love, sacrifice, corruption and redemption seemed to stand out so strongly in tales of Angels, fallen or otherwise, that I was often drawn to them, and in the end, they became a part of what I write, as many things that compel me do.

      Someone asked me, not long after this was published, why both characters were male. I didn’t have an answer at hand, but I thought about it for days after, and I have one now. I don’t know if it’s a good one, on the other hand, but it is true of this story. There are resonances and echoes that come with gender conflicts that would have made this story difficult otherwise; it would have muddied it in ways that the story itself wasn’t, among other things, long enough for. Female demons, for instance, are almost always sexually linked, but women-as-prey seemed likely to linger in the background should the demon in question be male and the protagonist female. I think, now, I might handle things differently — but I don’t know;

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