Small Victories is a collection of short stories by Elliott Kay, set in the Good Intentions, Wandering Monsters, and Poor Man’s Fight universes. It was published on July 6 2020.
General[]
Small Victories is a collection of short stories within the Good Intentions, Wandering Monsters, and Poor Man’s Fight series. It was published on July 6 2020. Most of the stories are short slice-of-life stories and had been written and published as Patreon rewards.
The stories are presented chronologically for each series, but they are only connected to each other by the recurring characters and places.
Stories[]
Publisher’s summary[]
Even once the day is saved and the villains defeated, life may never be “normal” again. It certainly doesn’t get boring. A hero could wind up in love, or living on the run… or serving as a dormitory resident advisor in space.
Publisher’s warning[]
SMALL VICTORIES contains seventeen stories from the series Good Intentions, Wandering Monsters, and Poor Man’s Fight. Collectively they include graphic sex, explicit violence, blasphemy, more graphic sex, rampant profanity, a homeowners association, polyamory, perfidy, fraternization, mushy conversations, toxic workplace conditions, poor leadership, morale issues, destruction of private property, fantasy depictions of demonic and divine beings bearing little or no resemblance to established religious canon, victim blaming, ambitious neighbors, sex in public, sex in private, sex while trespassing, kitchen sex, dressing room sex, indecent acts in a condominium listed for sale, mugging, stabbing, beating, shooting, impaling, defenestration, mutilated corpses, banditry, militarism, interrogations, false identification, low-gravity combat, nausea, vomiting, asphyxiation, teasing, lingerie, witchcraft, spacecraft, boarding actions, butter theft, police, homelessness, dangerous misuse of gym equipment, disrespect for vampires, breaking and entering, evasion of student visa restrictions, falsified dormitory records, phone calls of questionable timing, interstellar warfare, murder, assault, mistrust, harsh words, peer pressure, immolation, cinema criticism, abuse of authority, awkward conversations with mom, and alien drug mushrooms of questionable sentience in a refrigerator.
Publication history[]
Small Victories was published as an ebook on July 6 2020.
“Side Quest” was written specifically for the collection. All other stories had been written and published as Patreon rewards between March 2019 and June 2020.