PS Showcase · #9

The Emperor's Toy Chest

Tobias Seamon

Fantasy Short Stories

Cover art by Alexandra Huchet.

The Emperor's Toy Chest explores history, mythology, fantasy, and the magical borderlands between. A modern Odysseus discovers a siren amidst the carnival thrills of the boardwalk, while an overworked vizier confronts the pitfalls of power to the tune of laughing cats; an imprisoned king examines a series of double-edged amusements even as a suburban youth comes of age like a general facing catastrophe on the battlefield.

Whether it's a collegiate cavalier denying death through bigamy, a fin-de-siecle Frenchman building an aerial ice rink for his faithless wife, a native of King Kong's island coming to grips with white colonization, or a snobbish reviewer panning the latest from the world's foremost executioner, The Emperor's Toy Chest reveals an unforgettable cast that is both sovereign and plaything of its own timeless realm.

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May 2011
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Tobias Seamon

Tobias Seamon is author of the novel The Magician's Study (Turtle Point Press), the short story collection The Emperor's Toy Chest (PS Publishing) and a poetry chapbook Loosestrife Along the River Styx (Foothills Publishing). He also wrote and directed the award-winning mockumentary "Amerikan Partizan" which premiered at the 2007 Ed Wood Filmfest. The novella The Fair Grounds is forthcoming soon from PS Publishing. Other work has appeared such places as the Mississippi Review, McSweeney's, Strange Horizons, 3rd Bed, Cutbank, Smartish Pace, Chronogram, and the Santa Clara Review. A contributing writer with the online magazine The Morning…