Return

Return (2010) Peter S. Beagle

Return takes us back to the world of The Innkeeper’s Song.

Soukyan is still being chased by Hunters–trained assassins who have been after him since he escaped from that place–a place that seems to be a monastary, and where Soukyan had fled to as a child.

Finally, Soukyan is tired of fleeing the Hunters, and so decides to return to that place.

I quite liked The Innkeeper’s Song, and so was glad to return to that world. (I’ve read another story recently, about Lal, in an anthology.) I’ve also all but completely forgotten The Innkeeper’s Song but that didn’t seem to be too much of a problem in reading this story.

I think I’ve noted before that I’m delighted to find all these short stories available in eBook format. I love short stories and novellas, so the fact I can spend a couple bucks and get a short story seems like a win to me.
Rating: 7/10

Published by Subterranean Press

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