A traveling mercenary, moonlighting as a bookseller, arrives in a village stalked by a supernatural threat... but the occupants don't want her help, and they refuse to tell her what is stealing their children.This story, first published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, appeared on the 2012 Locus Recommended Reading List.Tangent Online had this to say: "Sinking Among Lilies" goes beyond its own fantasy trappings, however, to present an interesting moral dilemma: that power, given...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our May 2019 issue (#152) contains:Original fiction by Xia Jia ("Tick-Tock"), A. T. Greenblatt ("Move Forward, Disappear, Transcend"), Cory Skerry ("Empress in Glass"), Arula Ratnakar ("Insaan Hain, Farishte Nahin"), and R.S.A. Garcia ("The Sun from Both Sides").A reprint b...