title: The Human Shadow and What Stories Do We Need?
author:  Robert Bly 
description: Robert Bly (born December 23, 1926) is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement, most famous for his Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), which spent 62 weeks on the The New York Times Best Seller list. For The Light Around the Body he won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry.
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  ## In the Field Marshal’s Shadow
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Stories from the Powder Mage Universe
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Brian McClellan
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “Hope’s End” copyright © Brian McClellan, 2013. All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  “The Girl of Hrusch Avenue” copyright © Brian McClellan, 2013. All rights
  reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  “Green-Eyed Vipers” copyright © Brian McClellan, 2015. All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  “The Face in the Window” copyright © Brian McClellan, 2014. All rights
  reserved. First published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies #140 on February 6th,
  2014.
  
  
  
  
  
  “Return to Honor” copyright © Brian McClellan, 2015. All rights reserved.
  First published digitally by Orbit Books, January 2015.
  
  
  
  
  
  All stories contained within are a work of fiction. All names, characters,
  places and scenarios are either products of the authors imagination or used
  fictitiously. All resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely
  coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
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