To Balance the Weight of Khalem, by R.B. Lemberg

[BCS]

★★★☆☆

(Allegory) The story of how Belezal, a war refugee in Khalem managed to escape to a better country and how he came to terms with having lost not one but two homelands. (9,229 words; Time: 30m)

Recommended By: 👍GTognetti+2 👍MHaskins+1 (Q&A)

A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power, by Rose Lemberg

[BCS]

★★☆☆☆

(High Fantasy; Birdverse) The Old Royal has ruled the desert for millennia from their palace where a star once fell, but the arrival of a young stranger brings chaos. (38,308 words; Time: 2h:07m)

The Book of How to Live, by Rose Lemberg

[BCS]

★★★☆☆

(High Fantasy; Birdverse) In a world that values magic above all else, two creative women with no magic struggle to get recognition for their inventions. (13,401 words; Time: 44m)

Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds, by Rose Lemberg

[BCS]

★★★★☆ Recommended

(High Fantasy; Birdverse) Raised by her grandmothers, Aviya thinks about her future, and thinks about trying to find the source of a magical scrap of "cloth of the wind." (14,023 words; Time: 46m)

Recommended By: 🏆₁Nebula+3 📙₂SBerman.L+1 👍RSR+1 (Q&A)

The Desert Glassmaker and the Jeweler of Berevyar, by Rose Lemberg

[Uncanny]

★★★☆☆

(Fantasy; Birdverse) Vadrai and Maru begin a professional correspondence as fellow artisans, and over time it becomes more than that. (3,334 words; Time: 11m)

How to Remember to Forget to Remember the Old War, by Rose Lemberg

[Lightspeed]

★★★☆☆

Veteran living in a future San Francisco suffers from PTSD despite the memory-wipe treatment given by the military. (2,800 words; Time: 09m)

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