Online Stories and Previews

[Most recent first. Updated: January 20, 2011.]

Travellers’ Rest

An original Morlock novelette released as a free ebook (in various formats) to celebrate Pyr’s one hundredth book (The Wolf Age). Those who don’t like ereaders can find the text on a web-page (old school!) here.

Fire and Sleet

A novelette-length sequel to “A Book of Silences”, in which we find out what happened to the phoenix, among other things.

Payment in Full

Preview of a novella in Black Gate 12. It’s a sequel to both “The Lawless Hours” and “Payment in Full” and I think the always-brilliant Chuck Lukacs really outdid himself with the portrait of Morlock and Fasra

Blood of Ambrose: Chapters 1-3 on the Pyr Sample Chapters blog.

See the review page for praise and (and some dispraise) of the book.

Brother Solson and Sister Luna

A rare non-Morlock story, at Every Day Fiction.

The Gordian Stone

A Morlockian flashfic at Every Day Fiction.

The Lawless Hours

An online preview of a Morlock novella, out now in Black Gate 11.

A Book of Silences

An online preview of a Morlock story in Black Gate 10. Sherwood Smith, reviewing it at Tangent Online, said “The story
is a delightful Celtic knotwork”
. (Which I wish my mother had
lived to read: she was something of a delightful Celtic knotwork
herself.)

UPDATE: The whole story is now available through the Pyr Sample Chapters blog here.

The Red Worm’s Way

An entire story, originally appeared in the Flashing
Swords E-Zine Annual. Unfortunately the publisher, Pitch-Black, has since gone out of business not, I hope, as a result of publishing a Morlock story. A somewhat different version of this story has appeared in The Return of the Sword, from the revivified Flashing Swords Press (since re-revivified as “Rogue Blade Enterprises”). But I decided to leave this version up here, in part because it has already been reviewed by the (I think) discerning Francophonic S&S fan Fabien Lyraud, who describes Morlock as a “hybride reussi de Conan et de Sherlock Holmes,” and adds, “On se rend compte qu’avec la sword and sorcery on peut creer des histoires
complexes avec des situations simples. En plus l’auteur evite le manicheisme.”

A Covenant with Death at Flashing Swords 6

Rich Horton picked this as his favorite story of the issue.

[Addendum, 9/9/10: Unfortunately, the link to the story appears to be dead. When I get a spare moment, I'll format the text and put it up here.]

Payment Deferred

Another online preview, this time for issue 9 of Black Gate . Shane Jiraiya Cummings reviewed issue 9 at Horrorscope saying (in part), “Enge plunges the reader into a world of intrigue, where the battle is one of wits rather than brawn, but just as deadly. ‘Payment Deferred’ is a chess match of a story, and one well delivered by Enge.”

Turn Up This Crooked Way

An online preview of my first published story. It was selected by Rich Horton for his Virtual Best of 2005 . Thomas Marcinko wrote of it at Tangent Online, “Things that should not work, this author makes work, with magic-realism shimmer.”