Tamora Pierce - Short Stories

Short Stories

• "Plain Magic" - A fantasy short story. (1986, first published in Planetfall, re-published in 1999 in Flights of Fantasy, republished in 2010 in Tortall and Other Lands)
• "Testing" - A contemporary, short story based on events that happened to the author while she was the housemother in a group home for teenage girls. (2000, published in Lost and Found, republished in 2010 in Tortall and Other Lands)
• "Elder Brother" - A Tortallan short story. (2001, published in Half Human, an anthology edited by Bruce Coville, also published in a two-in-one Circle of Magic book titled Books One and Two: Water and Fire and Tortall and Other Lands)
• "Student of Ostriches" - A Tortallan short story. (2005, published in Young Warriors: Stories of Strength, an anthology edited by Pierce and Josepha Sherman, republished in 2010 in Tortall and Other Lands)
• "Huntress" - A contemporary fantasy short story. (2006, published in Firebirds Rising, an anthology edited by Sharyn November, republished in 2010 in Tortall and Other Lands)
• "Hidden Girl" - A Tortallan short story, set in the same country as "Elder Brother". (2006, published in Dreams and Visions, an anthology edited by M. Jerry Weiss, republished in 2010 in Tortall and Other Lands)
• "Time of Proving" - A fantasy short story, about the coming of age of a young girl. (2006, published in Cricket, republished in 2010 in Tortall and Other Lands)
• "Slippery in the Stairwell, 1965" - A contemporary, real-life short story. (2009, published in My Little Red Book)
• "The Dragon's Tale" - A Tortall short story about Kitten (Skysong), Daine's dragon (2009, published in The Dragon Book, republished 2010 in Tortall and Other Lands)
• "Lost" - A Tortall short story about a girl from Tusaine and a darking. (2010, published in Tortall and Other Lands)
• "Mimic" - A Tortall short story about a girl named Ri and the animals she saves. (Published in 2010 in Tortall and Other Lands)
• "Nawat" - A character-driven Tortall story which takes place after the Trickster series. (2010, published in Tortall and Other Lands)