Trifles and Folly
A Deadly Curiosities Collection
by Gail Z. Martin
Genre: Urban Fantasy
A collection of nine adventures: Buttons, The Restless Dead, Retribution, Coffin Box, Wicked Dreams, Collector, Bad Memories, Shadow Garden, and Spook House.
Cassidy Kincaide runs Trifles & Folly in modern-day Charleston, an antiques and curios shop with a dangerous secret. Cassidy can read the history of objects by touching them and along with her business partners Teag, who has Weaver magic and Sorren, a 600 year-old vampire, they get rid of cursed objects and keep Charleston and the world safe from supernatural threats. An extension of the Deadly Curiosities book series.
Revised Edition 2, 2018. Includes an updated cover, minor edits and the BONUS section with three stories chronicling Sorren’s early days: Vanities, The Wild Hunt, and Dark Legacy.
Trifles and Folly 2
A Deadly Curiosities Collection
Cassidy Kincaide runs Trifles & Folly in modern-day Charleston, an antiques and curios shop with a dangerous secret. Cassidy can read the history of objects by touching them and together with Teag (a hacker and weaver witch) and Sorren, a 600 year-old vampire, they get rid of cursed objects and keep Charleston and the world safe from supernatural threats.
An extension of the Deadly Curiosities urban fantasy novel series, this collection contains three full novellas and four short stories: The Final Death, Predator, Fair Game, Fatal Invitation, Redcap, Bloodlines, plus three bonus stories: Among the Shoals Forever, The Low Road, and Steer a Pale Course.
Redcap
I RAN THROUGH White Point Gardens as fast as I could. Behind me, teeth snapped, and feet
crunched on gravel. The redcap was gaining on me. I turned and caught a glimpse of the creature
that was hunting me, and let loose with a blast of cold white force from the athame in my right
hand.
The energy bolt sizzled through the air, but the redcap was gone. They’re devilishly hard to
hit.
Mocking laughter came from the shadows. The redcap was enjoying his game. He was toying
with me, letting me get ahead of him, saving his speed for the kill. Legend says it’s impossible to
outrun a redcap. I had hoped to draw him off, away from the homes that bordered on the garden,
where there were fewer prying eyes and a lesser chance of collateral damage. I’d offered myself
as bait to draw the redcap toward the waterfront. Now, I dodged around the statues and war
memorial cannons, trying to out outwit a bloodthirsty pixie with a taste for human flesh.
Unfortunately, this wasn’t the strangest way I had ever spent a Friday night.
The redcap was chattering in excitement, stoked about getting a good feast—me. I was
predictably less enthusiastic about the possibility and determined to make sure he stayed hungry.
The back corner of the park was coming up, where it was a darker thanks to a burned-out street
lamp. Just a few more feet.
The redcap gave a feral cry and sprang at me, snapping his sharp teeth on my jeans and barely
missing my skin. I wheeled and gave him a good kick in the face, knocking him a few feet away.
The redcap howled in anger and jumped to his feet; eyes fixed on me as he sized up his prey.
A larger shape moved fast enough to blur, and in the next instant, Sorren tackled the redcap.
Sorren hung on, using his own immortal strength to restrain the redcap, who despite being two
feet tall and built like a stringy old man was as tough as a tiger.
“Now!” Sorren cried out.
Teag darted from behind a monument. I heard the redcap scream as Teag pulled the creature’s
head back and swung his blade, neatly severing the vicious pixie’s head.
Gail Z. Martin discovered her passion for science fiction, fantasy and ghost stories in elementary school. The first story she wroteat age fivewas about a vampire. Her favorite TV show as a preschooler was Dark Shadows. At age 14, she decided to become a writer. She enjoys attending science fiction/fantasy conventions, Renaissance fairs and living history sites. She is married and has three children, a Himalayan cat, a Maltese and a golden retriever.
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