In this fantasy adventure short story, a young and homeless orphan finds herself confronting an angry goddess. Set on Racciman's World in Niontes, city of Sorcerers, the action takes place on the rooftops of Niontes' world renowned University, in the middle of the night.

Author's Notes:

I just don't write many short stories. But my first draft of Rune and Fire had two chapters at the front that I later lopped off because I decided they weren't moving the story along. (This is a fairly common phenomon in writerdom, it even has a name: scaffolding.) Within those chapters I introduced two very minor characters. They charmed me, and even before I removed those first two chapters from the book I found myself thinking that it might be fun to know how the two of them got together. Once the only chapters containing those two characters were gone, the desire to write a short that had the two of them getting together became much stronger.

My first version of Dark Moon Light was horribly flawed. The goddess showed up, and I got my two characters together, and that's all that happened, really. But because I had achieved my goal for the story, it took me a long time to figure out why all my readers were complaining. (I can be a very slow learner sometimes, I guess.) When I finally realized what was wrong, I erased everything I already had, and started the story over from scratch -- this time giving it an actual plot. After the rewrite, my readers stopped complaining that it wasn't a "real" story. Having a plot does make a bit of a difference!