The Ant and the Lazy GrassHopper

by Priya Sharma

The moral of this story is that it is important to be prepared for the future and not to take things for granted. If you work hard now, you will be rewarded later

19 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 26, 2023

About the author

Priya Sharma’s fiction has appeared venues such as Interzone, Black Static, Nightmare, The Dark and Tor. “Fabulous Beasts” was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist and won a British Fantasy Award for Short Fiction. Priya is a Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Award winner, and Locus Award finalist, for “All the Fabulous Beasts”, a collection of her some of her work, available from Undertow Publications.

“Ormeshadow”, her first novella (available from Tor), won a Shirley Jackson Award and a British Fantasy Award. It was a 2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire finalist.

"Pomegranates", her second novella (from Absinthe, an imprint of PS Publishing) is a Shirley Jackson Award, British Fantasy Award finalist and won a World Fantasy Award.

Her stories have been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Czech, and Polish.