Lady Mochizuki Chiyome plays host to two of the only women across all of history who can understand why she teaches young women to do very unladylike things. Like her, Locusta the Poisoner and Ma Mandelbaum run schools for very particular students gifted with very particular talents. Inspired by a conversation with Mackenzi Lee, author of Bygone Badass Broads, this short historical fantasy explores what would happen if three of history's most bloodthirsty schoolmistresses had been able to share a (very carefully checked) meal.

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I am a writer, editor, and publisher living just north of the Golden Gate Bridge with my wife, author/teacher Maura Vaughn, our author-to-be daughters. And our (apparently) non-literary cats.

Currently, I run my own small publishing company, Stillpoint Digital Press. Since 1999, I've overseen the publications program for Joseph Campbell Foundation. I have edited three posthumous volumes of Campbell's unpublished writing and lectures and overseen editions of nine additional titles, the most recent being the third edition of the seminal Hero with a Thousand Faces.

I have just finished Risuko, a young adult historical adventure novel (whew! lots of qualifications on that!) set in Japan during the Civil War era.

I'm a passionate reader of mysteries, fantasy and whatever else I can get my hands on. I am a story addict.

I also have a really healthy respect for heights. (In one of Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching books, the heroine realizes that it's not the heights that she's afraid of: it's the depths. I understand that.)

And that's me, at the moment.