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A collection of short stories from new voices - the cross-currents of mystery, fantasy, science fiction, and romance.
Worlds new or perhaps re-visited - but only you will know if this is the stuff of dreams - or nightmares.
Wolves that talk to nearly-extinct humans through their minds.
Witches that not only represent the five elements, but also the five principles that can defeat all magic.
Goddesses who have to work together to defeat a priestess...
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Have you ever thought some very dangeous thoughts?
Ones that could destroy all life as you knew it?
In these six stories by three authors, they do just that. Of course, fiction is safer than real life, so it's much easier to test things here. ...Or so we've been told.
In these stories are ideas that will captivate, and excite you to new thoughts and ideas of your own. Because the universe we live in is just a hair's-breadth away from the fictional...
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While these authors make writing seem effortless, it's always easier to read than write. And where these ideas come from is anyone's guess.
All we can say is that we are blessed with their output.
Along with Volume 11, we're wrapping up three new author's production this year.
While we wrap up two series with the final installments of the Healers Chronicles and Walkaway Blues, we also start a new series with Corona-XI. Most of this volume has to...
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Cozy, Detective, or Amateur Sleuth - contemporary or fantasy - these short stories will keep you guessing right up to their quick end.Mysteries come in many forms, and in many locations. Here we have contemporary, dystopian, and paranormal venues so you can immerse yourself from the first sentence in each of these short stories.- A ghost who has to arrange her own scene-reenactment just to find out how she died. - How a writer helps a woman find out...
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Some satire is timeless. Others predict the near future with uncanny accuracy.
When you're faced with a violent, dangerous present - perhaps it's some relief to blow it all up into an exaggerated future history. Then you can tell yourself that it's all just entertainment....And hope it doesn't really turn out that way.- -She could still remember the look on his face when they closed the Riot Wall for the final time.
She could barely find him at...
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A massive collection of quick escapes into alternate universes where you can live through the eyes of everyday people finding themselves in fantastic adventures.Mysteries, Romances, Fantasies, and Science Fiction - all sorts of speculative fiction beyond the ordinary and humdrum.But why devote weeks to reading a huge novel, when you can escape in the few minutes you have and be back before anyone notices you were gone?That's the great advantage of...
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More speculative fiction to transport you to worlds and times beyond knowing.
This 2nd quarter collection of original short stories will provide you with countless hours of entertainment, particularly as they are written both as speculative fiction and modern parables based on ancient principles.
Of course, they're written to be read for fun, but every time you read them, each story gets better - like something you've never seen in it before.
This...
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If laughter is the best medicine, then reading humorous short stories should be the best practice to maintain your health.
These three authors with their six stories have written stories that both poke fun at the sacrosanct and also skewer them for dissection as both pompous and ripe.
From the ranks of Voltaire, Twain, and Vonnegut, these new voices have something to say about how our current culture and what they consider serious. You may find...
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LIfe isn't easy when you're a library cat, who was formerly a Cat Goddess out of Egypt.
And then you're introduced to two young male time-travelling scientists by your friend who natively bends time herself, with the help of organic tesseracts that float around her.
Of course, their machine won't work - but then it does.
And they are trapped in Ancient Egypt because they only went there to prove a point - and their machine was stolen meanwhile......
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The adventures of the Ghost Hunters continue - with more exotic locations and hair-raising paranormal adventures than ever before:This second quarter anthology of short story fiction by S. H. Marpel and various co-authors brings you new ideas to digest - all in the short periods of time you have available.Explore such ideas as:- The President is transported to a writer's cabin, where he reveals startling observations about the pandemic scam.- A young...
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"JOHN, I JUST MET A ghost who's dying." I raised one eyebrow, waiting for the punchline from my favorite time-bender." No, it's not what you think. I haven't gone off the deep end. The government made him into something they call a ghost.” Figure if the government's involved, then it's going to be screwed up...But a ghost, dying?” Running out of juice, actually. Kept alive on some sort of weird life support that he won't fix to save himself.”...
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"It was a dark and stormy night, and everyone was sitting around the glowing fireplace, safe and warm against the raging weather outside. Someone said, 'John, tell us a story.' So John began..."
The story "Ghost Hunters" began a series that started with two spirit-guides recruiting the human John Earl Stark, a mystery writer and part-time cattle farmer.
Since that humble beginning, an expanding team of spirit-guides and even goddesses have joined...
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It's not often these days that you read about a real goddess.
One who was a lover of Ulysses – and saved his butt more than he would care to admit (and never told his biographer.) And one who influenced history for good and bad in more ways than you know.
But only the very worst stories about how she looked and acted have been passed down through the ages.
So she kidnapped a writer to tell it straight. Only he had to write this as fiction, since...
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She was tall, with a long black wavy mane that came most the way down her back.While her tight black leather jeans almost came up to meet, except for a narrow band of pure ivory skin. Those, plus a cropped knit top and an opened short jacket, drew all eyes to her in the backwoods bar.Only the jukebox continued any noise, beating out a worn country music classic.She had come to see me. Perhaps to help with my simple request. Because I needed assistance...
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The adventures of the Ghost Hunters continue - with more exotic locations and hair-raising paranormal adventures than ever before:
- Visiting a haunted planet where the normal is falling between two worlds, while John winds up solving being in a coma, away from his body.
- The goddes Harpy returns with a simple request for John, a personal and very human one.
- Sal has to help John sort out a mental mis-thinking that could kill him off unless unraveled.
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16) Ghost Hunters
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It started with a dream.
In it, John Earl Stark solved the problem of a ghost he met. Or did he? It was a dream, after all.
The next day he meets two women who visit his cabin, arriving out of the blue, literally. (Well, one arrived with pitched black darkness which filled his cabin and made her cough.)
These two have an offer for Stark. All he really wanted was to enjoy the small cabin and solitude so he could write his detective stories.
These...
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