Undertow by Karl Edward Wagner ★★★★½ Oh friends, a full short story: beginning, middle, and oh-shit ending. We start with stereotypes and bloom into layered, desperate, characters. This is my favorite “green ribbon” story.
The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams by Michael Moorcock ★★★★½ Decades before the Targaryens hit the shelves there was “a race which loved pleasure, cruelty, and sophistication for its own sake. The race of Melnibonéans.”