Review: Excellent fantasy short story!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 13, 2012
Winter's Bite makes a big emotional impact for such a short story.  It was well-written and cleanly edited, and the main character Ysabon was very easy to relate to.  Ysabon, who used to live by the sword, is now old and just wants to live in peace.  Four men from the nearby village seek her help when monsters from the hills are attacking.  Ysabon is tired; her muscles ache and her joints are stiff.  She refuses to help them, but her nephew decides to join the villagers.  Later that night, her nephew is the only one to return alive.  Ysabon searches her soul throughout the night and decides that she must help, knowing that she will probably never see her family again.