The Least Trumps

WFA nominated novella. It originally appeared in Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists (2002), edited by Peter Straub and Bradford Morrow, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, November 2015. The story can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (2003), edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. It is included in the collections Bibliomancy (2003), Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories (2006) and The Best of Elizabeth Hand (2021).