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Fiddler Fair
by Mercedes Lackey

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or
incidents is purely coincidental.

Copyright © 1998 by Mercedes Lackey
“Fiddler Fair,” in Magic in Ithkar 3 (Tor 1989) “Balance” and “Dragon’s Teeth,” in Bardic Voices One (Hypatia Press 1988) (HC), in
Spell-singers (DAW 1988) (PB); “Dance Track,” in Alternate Heroes , Mike Resnick, ed. (Bantam Spectra 1989); “Last Rights,” in
Dinosaur Fantastic, Martin Greenberg, ed. (DAW 1993); “Jihad,” in Alter-nate Warriors, Mike Resnick, ed. (Tor 1993); “Dumb Feast,”
in Christmas Ghosts , Mike Resnick, ed. (DAW 1993); “Small Print” in Deals with the Devil, Mike Resnick, ed. (DAW 1994); “The Cup
and the Caldron,” in Grails of Light (DAW); “Once and Future,” in Excalibur! , Martin Greenberg, ed. (Warner Aspect 1995); “Enemy
of My -Enemy,” Friends of the Horseclans , Robert Adams, ed. (NAL 1989)

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

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Cover art by Clyde Caldwell

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 How I Spent My
Summer Vacation
And every other free minute
for five straight years


After any number of requests to put all our short stories together in one place, the idea began to take on some me
r i t.
When Larry and I looked into the idea we discovered that we had a lot of other short fiction; about ten years’
worth.
Ten years? Unbelievable as it seemed at the time, I found the very first story I ever had published (I had sold one
story before that, but it wasn’t published until the following month). Fantasy Book magazine, September 1985. The
story was “Turnabout” which was a Tarma and Kethry story, which is going into another collection. For the record,
the first story I ever sold was for Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Free Amazons of Darkover “Friends of Darkover”
anthology, which was published in December of that year. The story was “A Different Kind of Courage.”
Some of these stories are a little grey around the edges, but I include them as a kind of object lesson in writing.