... Deviations: Covenant Elissa Malcohn Second Edition This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the prod... ...s is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any... ...of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblanc... ...ssa Malcohn. All rights reserved. This e-book edition has been prepared by the author for a limited, free-distribution offer to the reading public.... ... a limited, free-distribution offer to the reading public. Author reserves the right to withdraw the offer at any time. Commercial and derivative u... ...n 1985. I am very thankful for the guidance I received back then by members of the Cambridge Science Fiction Workshop (Jon Burrowes, Alexander Jablo... ...pStone closed her eyes and swallowed hard. Her vanity before the mirror was meaningless. Her very life was a joke of the gods.  "I should throw i... ... turning it. "Those are Yata stories. Each plant and animal has a different meaning." ShadowGrass's pelt ran from her neck in red rivers down her ar... ...hanged with the shifting light. A tale told in the morning held a different meaning against the backdrop of dusk. TripStone squinted at whorls and m...

...Vol. 1: TripStone hates to kill her gods but she must feed her people. An accomplished hunter in the Masari village of Crossroads, she is charged with the ritual slaying of the sacred Yata. Her comrade Ghost tries to end Masari dependence on Yata meat by performing experiments punishable by death. His jeopardy increa...