This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events or locales is purely coincidental.

© 2021 by Diane Morrison

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The Queen’s Dirk

First electronic edition: World Anvil, February 2021.

Survivor

First electronic edition: Separate Worlds, July/August 2015.

Second electronic & first print edition: Sci-Fan Magazine, August 2017.

Third electronic edition: Limited Horizon: Stories of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2018.

First audio edition: Blue Funk Podcast, March 2020.

Eye of the Storm

First electronic & print edition: Chasing Fireflies: A Summer Romance Anthology, July 2017.

Pirate, Princess, Thief, Assassin

Copyright © 2021 by Diane Morrison. All rights reserved.

As Only a Soldier Can

First electronic edition: World Anvil, April 2020.

Homefront

First electronic edition: On the Horizon: Simple Worlds of Speculative Adventure, May 2018.

National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Morrison, Diane 1975—

                Starseeds: Stories from the Toy Soldier Saga / Diane Morrison

Collections—Series

1. Title 2. Collections—Series 3. Science fiction, Canadian 4. Science fiction, Military 5. Fantasy fiction, Canadian 6. Fantasy fiction, Military 7. Science fantasy 8. Short stories, Canadian 9. Fantasy Adventure