The next installment of the Chain Story Project is below.

Forest Ranger Hazel Boncliff is a Green Speaker, a person with the magical ability to commune with plants. When the king summons Hazel and her assistant to the capital to heal the strange blight affecting his hunting grounds, she’s reluctant to help—least of all because he’s insisting his inexperienced secretary go along for the journey. But with a reward she can’t refuse and the blight’s effects more harrowing by the moment, she’ll take all the help she can get…

Cover image of the short story "Blight" by Katherine Monasterio, featuring gold leaves and branches overlaying dark green bare branches and bright green flames coming from a green ornate box with runes on it

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Special thank you to Xenia Gribanova for the beautiful cover art. She takes commissions—email her here!