Helen Plum Library

Since 1996, the Colorado Springs Fiction Writers Group has been helping local writers improve their craft. In 2012, CSFWG took the next step in encourging creativity and drive in their members by publishing the first bi-annual anthology, taking the best stories on a particular theme from its members. This is the third anthology published by the CSFWG. It contains eleven different stories ranging in genre from paranormal fantasy and science fiction...

What if someone wished a fairy godmother would help the entire city of Seattle? An overworked, overstressed social worker named Rose Samson does just that when she makes an idle wish on a mustard seed. Felicity Fortune of "Godmothers Anonymous" shows up to help. Rose Samson is neither fashion model beautiful, nor a twit, and she happily joins forces with Felicity Fortune, a "Godmother" who demonstrates that Grimm's fairy tales are still relevant in...

This is issue Forty (Extraordinary) One of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet which is being published in June of 2020 and is being sent out free to subscribers as a bonus to add joy to this daily more complicated world. (Contributors were paid the usual rates.) Readers who'd like to support the zine are encouraged to subscribe, mais oui, but also to donate to Color of Change, buy books through Black-owned bookstores such as Frugal Bookstore, and...

Turn the lights down low, make a cup of your favourite brew and get tucked in for seven page-turning short stories from the KFC Scrutineers writing group. The stories include thriller, mystery, science fiction and fantasy tales, all with deadly consequences.Andy and the Time Slip App (Steve Moretti)Andy had a very good life until temptation got the best of him one day. But if he can rewind time, is he free to break the rules again?Brisé (K. Bradley)Six-year-old...

Le royaume humain de la Framarie, riche et prospère, se relève d'une première guerre de scission perdue contre les duchés au sud de la Passe, un canal synonyme de prospérité. Au sud, à la tête des vainqueurs, le duc Théodore et ses deux filles aspirent à la paix. Seulement, dans ce monde o la race humaine ctoie celles des lutins, elfes et nains, de multiples dangers rdent, notamment le désir de vengeance d'un jeune roi avide de gloire. À...

Alec's world changes when he meets Abu the genie! Disasters were leading two-nil on Alec's disaster-triumph scorecard when he slipped into the vacant factory lot, with Ginger Wallace hot on his heels, ready to destroy him. There was a catastrophe awaiting him at home too, and of course school was yet another disaster area. But his luck seemed to be changing when he discovered a sealed beer can that was obviously empty. Stranger still, when he held...

Fly for freedom. Helena always thought of Europe as the romantic continent, full of history and mystery waiting to be explored. What she finds breaks her heart, deforested, and smoke choked. The Russians haunt the Legend's every move. Will she ever escape their influence? The old countries are arming with new deadly steam-powered weapons. Will humans survive to see the 20th century? Will Helena want to live in the next century if it arrives safely?...

Welcome to The Penumbra Papers, the award-winning Urban Fantasy series from Silver James. Fans of her Moonstruck series will love the Penumbra Papers. These "Cases from the Shadow's Edge" explore the forces of light and dark as they dance through shadows humans barely glimpsed prior to the Big Rip. Since the the Veil tore, all manner of preternatural magicks intermingle with humans in ways mysterious, magical and, in some cases, criminal. Much to...

The Tales from the Gaoler continue in Scotland, with a new 'old' castle and double the demons. Isla Cathcart is a good Scottish woman. Gerry McIntosh is a good Scottish vampire. Ssh, don't tell Isla he's a vampire. Isla's extended family has a true claim to an ancient Scottish castle given to her twelve times grandmother by Henry VIII. How can she prove that ownership when it was stolen by royal bureaucracy and misogyny? Enamored with bonnie Isla,...

Mais comment un kelpie, une ancienne meurtrière bibliothécaire d'un lycée, le Père Noël, le Hollandais Volant et le Krampus finirent-ils par en découdre avec un Corps expéditionnaire martien dans un bol de gravy volant non identifié? Pourquoi ne pas trouver par vous-même en vous procurant un exemplaire de ce livre?