A relatively small proportion of my work is set in the modern world, but I do have a handful of stories. (This doesn’t include contemporary fantasy stories that are retellings of folkloric material.)

 

• Down a Street That Wasn’t There
  Step beyond the ordinary . . .

  Beneath the surface of our reality lies a world of magic and danger — a world where buildings have guardian spirits, shapeshifting coyotes prey on the hopeful and the desperate, and ancient traditions prepare for an apocalyptic future. These seven urban fantasy tales from award-winning author Marie Brennan paint the everyday with a layer of wonder, inviting you to imagine what could lie just around the corner.

 

• “Ten Minutes”
  Only ten minutes. Ten minutes is easy.
• “Legio XVII Inquieta”
  An archaeologist makes an unprecedented discovery.
• “A Mighty Huntress”
  The cat did not look like a “Flufferina.”
• “Crafting Chimera”
  For a shapeshifter, questions of identity can be even more fraught.
• “The Memories Rise to Hunt”
  They rise each night from stains in the concrete, from shadows in the stone.
• “Fate, Hope, Friendship, Foe”
  This was a farewell tour.
• “Guidelines for Using the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library”
  My love letter to Widener Library at Harvard.
• “La Molejera”
  The old woman isn’t grinding corn in that metate of hers, and she won’t be making any tortillas from the meal.
• “The Genius Prize”
  Finding out what happened isn’t the hard part. Believing it is.
• “Coyotaje”
  The coyotes of Mexicali were bold.
• “The Last Wendy”
  “My name is Peter Pan.”
• “Comparison of Efficacy Rates for Seven Antipathetics as Employed Against Lycanthropes”
  This research was not authorized by a Human Subjects Committee or other ethics review board.
• “Selection”
  The application form is seventy-two pages long, and they require nine copies.
• “Such as Dreams Are Made Of”
  Holt was a master of his art.
• Stories related to the Wilders series are listed on that page.