K Bird Lincoln: 10 books

In this short story set after the events of novels Tiger Lily and The Straw Doll Cries at Midnight, Tiger Lily and her lordling, Ashikaga Yoshinori travel to Dejima Island, the home of foreign doctor, desperate for a cure for Ashikaga's father, the Lord Daimyo's, mysterious illness. But someone else...

A dark historical fantasy short story. A Japanese picture bride in San Francisco finally finds peace at an internment camp on Angel Island.

A 3000 word dark fantasy short story: It is summertime in Gilroy, California, and the garlic fields permeate the air with a biting, earthy smell. A young English teacher discovers ancient magic when one of her migrant worker students is assaulted. 

Yoshika Mertz's teenage daughter is out of control and changing before her very eyes. But she finds out it isn't just normal hormones at work—Aria has a brain tumor. Despite a supernatural warning, Yoshika chooses an experimental immunotherapy to save her daughter. But will the cure itself change her daughter so much that she will lose her forever?

A historical fantasy short story inspired by the traditional ballad "He Moved Through the Fair" set in Monterey Bay of the early 1900's: Hana is Japanese and Cigno is Italian. On  Cannery Row that means they are enemies. One day, Cigno and Hana experience a mysterious connection when...

Beth is devastated by her diagnosis of breast cancer. She withdraws from work, life, and even her best friend Sira. What Beth doesn't know is that something in the city of San Francisco feeds on despair, and Beth is falling into it's trap...

Japan lost World War II, but the Tokyo Council still rules the magical Kind with an iron will. When the Council's enforcer, Bringer-of-Death, receives orders to go after a veteran who happens to be a Baku--dream eater-- he is caught between the threat of punishment and his desire to help the Baku...

Koi Pierce dreams other peoples' dreams. Her whole life she's avoided other people. Any skin-to-skin contact—a hug from her sister, the hand of a barista at Stumptown coffee—transfers flashes of that person's most intense dreams. It's enough to make anyone a hermit. But Koi's getting...

Koi Pierce, a half-baku, visits Japan looking for answers and finds an impossible choice. With the help of powerful new friends, Koi defeated her dragon enemy in Portland. Now, no longer able to deny her dream-eating powers or the real reason for her father’s mental decline, she flies to...

Even a dream eater can’t escape the final sleep… After her trip to Japan, the Head of Portland Kind calls Koi home to help solve a murder. The body of a powerful magical being was found in the witch’s hut in Forest Park, along with a strange, haunting quotation about dreams and death...