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Queen Amy and the freedom fighters of Silver City knew it was only a matter of time before theyd be forced to faceoff against the overwhelming numbers of her mothers invading black army. Queen Cassandras soldiers were slowly crossing the breadth of the grassland to meet their rivals on the field of battle and wipe out the impertinent threat, once and for all. The Black Queens prior encounters with the upstart colony had challenged her authority and...
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During crisis, all of find a way to survive. That what humans are programmed to do. Stories help us cope. Storytelling is a specific writer tool - I wrote as catharsis during the extended quarantine to suppress COVD-fear. The toughest part, we can all agree, was not knowing the end date of the pandemic. Humans were unwitting guinea pigs as governmental, medical, and scientific personnel grappled with the prospect of losing humankind. Everyone who...
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Three awarded short-stories for 2016: a short-story full of suspense and thrilling events showing, how to murder someone, pinning the kill on someone else; a quasi-biographical short-story revealing embarrassing moments in a woman's life and her decision to take her life back (better later than never); the revelation of a quirks in the life of the inhabitants of a building that is about to be sold, the owner not knowing what he'd bring upon himself,...
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"We Make Writing Makes Us" greedy for the right words and the thrill of creating when we know we have done our best work. It epitomises the concept that when we express ourselves, we become ourselves.
For those of us now having escaped the shackles of our working lives, we are now able to be our own masters in achieving our goals in the third trimester of our lives. We may now go where our imagination takes us.
You will find inside the covers of...
5) All Is Found
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Just in time to celebrate the first decade of the Frozen franchise, we join Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf as they embark on new adventures through the Frozen universe with friends new and old.
This wide variety of original stories will share untold tales from Anna and Elsa's childhood, memories with their parents, and mysterious creatures they encounter. These highly relatable, yet larger than life characters will appeal to young Frozen...
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Soulwaves is a metaphysical and cosmological adventure across space and time.
If you've ever wondered, where we are heading, this book explores a possible near-future for humanity, and the Earth.
If you've ever wondered, where we came from, be prepared to turn your thinking on its head.
If you've ever wondered if anyone is pulling your strings, this book will make you think again about chance encounters or serendipities in your life.
If you've...
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Startled by LOVE brings you a collection of talented and accomplished poets, established, emerging, and new, in our third annual anthology of all new poetry in traditional forms.
Grab a cup of tea or glass of wine and enjoy our verses on the many faces of love-romantic love, familial love, love lost, and more.
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THE TAROT HAS AWAKENED...
The Tarot, a powerful divination artifact, has appeared in the Sixth World. It works its will on anyone who finds one of its mystical cards, from runners surviving on the street to corp executives battling in the boardroom. And not just people's lives will be changed, for the Awakened Tarot deck is more than just a formidable magic item, it has an agenda all its own, and will use those it comes in contact with to set its...
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The First Rule of Witchcraft: Harm none.
The Second Rule of Witchcraft: Practice magic only when you're clear of mind.
That includes not practicing magic while drunk.
When drunken scrying goes awry, Madison connects with Brody, a cute guy trapped...somewhere. Freeing him becomes her obsession.
Does the Second Rule of Witchcraft count when it comes to love?
Good Scrying Gone Bad" is part of Uncollected Anthology, Issue 11: Bewitching Love.
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Orbiting a distant red sun, the planet Darkover was settled long ago by human colonists and then cut off from the rest of civilization. Over millennia of isolation, it gave rise to a rich culture ruled by a telepathic aristocracy, but was also home to nonhuman races, both hostile and friendly. As kingdoms rose and fell, the enhanced psychic gifts called laran, channeled through starstone gems, transformed not only individual lives, but the entire...
12) The Tommys
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Penelope heads out to the silver mining town of Leadville, Colorado after her cousin Bess' husband is killed in an accident on his way back from his mining claim in the mountains.
Unlike Penelope, Bess didn't inherit much in the way of witchcraft. But the one skill she has is detecting when someone is lying...so she knows that the miners who brought her husband's body back to town aren't telling the truth.
The only way to find out what really happened...
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Take a journey through Asia and beyond with twenty-three original thought-provoking and moving stories about identities, belonging, and choices-stories about where we come from and where we are going.
ALL EMOTIONS ARE UNIVERSAL. WE LIVE, WE DREAM, WE STRIVE, WE DIE ...
Follow twenty-three science fiction and fantasy authors on their journeys through Asia and beyond. Stories that explore magic and science. Stories about love, revenge, and choices....
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Intended as a salute to the best in locally crafted short fiction, The Cuffer Prize was launched in March 2008 and attracted nearly 200 entries from across the province. The Cuffer Anthology contains the best of those entries. This is a collection of stories to be savored and remembered. Readers will thrill at the writing talent that abounds in Newfoundland and Labrador. At the same time, they will be contributing to a wonderful cause: a portion of...
15) Fairy Tale Fates
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Beauty has a Fate. A Destiny. To keep dating loser and "beasts" until she manages to find that prince hidden underneath that bad boy exterior.
But what if she doesn't want to? What if she wants to take control of her own destiny?
Fairy Tale Fates is part of the Uncollected Anthology, issue 16: Fairy Tales
16) Fish Nets
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Fish Nets: The Second Guppy Anthology, dredges up even more thrills, chills, and gills. Like its predecessor, Fish Tales, this collection of mysteries by members of Sisters in Crime's "Guppies" group features the best of what the mystery genre has to offer-a fresh catch of mysterious murders, police procedurals, cozy characters, and hardboiled detectives-straight from the imaginations of some of mystery field's rising stars. Come on in, the water's...
17) Surface Tension
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Santiago escaped kidnapping, torture, and near death last time, she was in the ocean. Now back on the safety of land she resumes life as normal, but finds she is plagued with lingering effects of the Sirens' brutality and thoughts about the world under the surface. When she finds shocking information in her abuela's journals, Santi must make a choice that will decide not only her fate, but also that of millions of others.
Will Santi choose to follow...
18) Transformations
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Ao Dan works as a wizard for Huli Transport. He primarily opens portals to transport messengers and goods between places. Easy. Non-complicated. Even if Ao Dan has taken off time recently to grieve the loss of his partner and has not done any magic in a while. But, hitchhikers can always show up. Dangerous creatures from other planes tunneling through to this world. When a demon nearly kills Ao Dan on his first day back at work, the confrontation...
19) Telling the Bees
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Some kind of weird Sleeping Beauty curse has hit a Portland, Oregon, suburb.Sounds like a case for Hedgewitch sisters Holly and Willow, and Holly's fae familiar, Cam. But "weird" doesn't begin to describe what's really happening….A new story in the spellbinding Hedgewitch urban fantasy series by the author of the Nikki Ashburne series."Telling the Bees" is part of Uncollected Anthology, Issue 18: Beasties.
20) Red Rose
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Shadow finds himself on a Houston street with no memory of arriving there. In fact, remembers nothing about anything at all. In his pocket, he finds a single clue to his identity: an address that leads him to an alley behind a notorious tattoo shop owned by a local god.When he begins to see things that no one else can-magical things-Shadow suspects that he's not a normal amnesiac. Or even human.Can he unravel the mystery in time to save his life and...
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