I just finished reading an enchanting short story by Garth Nix (Amazon Blog, titled Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again. It’s available for free as HTML on Baen’s website, so give it a read. Or if that’s too onerous, this PDF might help: Garth Nix: Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again.pdf.

I originally read the story published in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection, almost the very last of the chilling tales in this volume, and in my opinion, by far the best. It won the Aurealis award for novella.

There is apparently a sequel novella titled Beyond the Sea Gate of the Scholar-Pirates of Sarskoe in Fast Ships, Black Sails which I’m dying to read, but it’s not available in Kindle format.