Everybody's Cousin (Chronicles of Aesirium)

Cousins, streetwise ally to Aesirium's newest Reaper, enjoyed a delicate balance of success and relative anonymity on the streets of Oldtown-Against-the-Wall, but how exactly did he go from being a simple courier with a reputation for having "a cousin who can take care of that" to working side by side with the central figures for the world-shaking events for Aesirium itself?

Find out here, printed on its own for the first time, in the short story, "Everybody's Cousin," how Ballis Furthore crossed paths with two of the most notorious scoundrels to haunt Oldtown on his quest for the mysterious Morrow Stone.


Sample:


“This merely leaves three points of business: how soon you require the item, the nature of the item itself, and what you’re willing to pay for my services.”

The older gentleman set his book down and leaned forward from the deeper shadows, a mischievous smile on his lips. “You wouldn’t perform this task for the sheer satisfaction of repaying an old debt?”

Ballis scoffed. “There is business and there is pleasure, sir. Only a fool confuses the two.”

“And you are no fool?”

The boy shrugged. “I don’t confuse the two.”


"Everybody's Cousin is a short story of over 13,000 words in the genre of Young Adult Fantasy, with a delicate flourish of Steampunkery.