“Embracing the Mystery”
2000-03-00
novelette
By Charles de Lint

Newford

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First publication: Spell Fantastic, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff, DAW Books, March 2000

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All of the stories in the Newford series:
That Was Radio Clash
The Hour Before Dawn
In Sight
Old Man Crow
The Universal Soldier
Dharma
Companions to the Moon
Crow Roads
In Which We Meet Jilly Coppercorn
Uncle Dobbin’s Parrot Fair
That Explains Poland
The Fields Beyond the Fields
One Chance
The Sacred Fire
The Big Sky
the Stone Drum
Timeskip
Romano Drom
Freewheeling
Ghosts of Wind and Shadow
But for the Grace I Go
Our Lady of the Harbour
Winter Was Hard
Pity the Monsters
Tallulah
Paperjack
The Bone Woman
The Conjure Man
Bridges
Seven for a Secret
Mr. Truepenny’s Book Emporium and Gallery
Coyote Stories
Dead Man’s Shoes
Dream Harder, Dream True
In the House of My Enemy
Pal o’ Mine
Small Deaths
The Moon Is Drowning While I Sleep
The Wishing Well
Waifs and Strays
A Tempest in Her Eyes
Heartfires
In This Soul of a Woman
Saxophone Joe and the Woman in Black
The Pochade Box
The Forest Is Crying
Bird Bones and Wood Ash
Crow Girls
Passing
The Forever Trees
Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night
Dark Eyes, Faith, and Devotion
Little (Grrl) Lost
Second Chances
Alone
Birds
My Life As a Bird
The Invisibles
Held Safe by Moonlight and Vines
Shining Nowhere But in the Dark
Saskia
In the Pines
The Dreaming Place
From a Whisper to a Scream
I’ll Be Watching You
The Pennymen
In the Quiet After Midnight
Twa Corbies
Ten for the Devil
China Doll
If I Close My Eyes Forever
In the Land of the Unforgiven
Pixel Pixies
Forest of Stone
The Blue Girl
The Buffalo Man
Big City Littles
Little (Grrl) Lost
Masking Indian
The Words That Remain
Dingo
Embracing the Mystery
Granny Weather
Many Worlds Are Born Tonight
Wingless Angels
Wild Horses
Making a Noise in This World
The Cats of Tanglewood Forest
A Crow Girl’s Christmas
Refinerytown
Seven Wild Sisters
Trading Hearts at the Half Kaffe Café
Freak
Sweet Forget-Me-Not
Seven Wild Sisters
Somewhere in My Mind There Is a Painting Box
Sign Here
The Witching Hour
Da Slockit Light
Riding Shotgun
The Butter Spirit’s Tithe
The World in a Box
Medicine Road
Newford Spook Squad
Make a Joyful Noise
02 Memory and Dream
04 Trader
05 Someplace to Be Flying
07 Forests of the Heart
08 The Onion Girl
10 Spirits in the Wires
11 Widdershins
12 Promises to Keep
14 The Wind in His Heart