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New voices bring new ideas and new worlds to you in these six short stories of Science Fiction/Fantasy.
That's what they are good at. Figuring out things that are completely different from the same old repeating plots and characters. Finding new "what if's" that have never been asked before.
Whether you like dystopian stories of what happens after the world ends, or the sudden appearance of fairy tale creatures in our current worlds, you'll...
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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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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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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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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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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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DO ELECTIONS REALLY HAVE CONSEQUENCES?
This saying is repeated often, and seldom fully understood.
So this collection of pure fiction came into being, which explores the choices that politicians make, as well as those who manage them and follow them. We can see the results of their choices in these fantastical worlds. Told through the lives of those affected, often as unintended effects on those lives.
Because that is the best way to tell stories,...
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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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Be transported into speculation on the world we live in and those we might still.This first 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. Solve the mysteries of the paranormal as common-place - If you can.This Anthology contains:- Walkaway Mary by S. H. Marpel- Empress Oracle by S. H. Marpel, J. R. Kruze- The Healers Chronicles:...
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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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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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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 first beyond the chain-link fence a few hundred yards away. If not for that red-plaid shirt he always wore when he visited her. Standing in the closed "visitor" queue on his side of that wall.
After this day, there would be no more visits. Because this wall was the long-overdue solution to the long-running riots.
Riots meant...
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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" started a series 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 the Library...
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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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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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Four books collected into this Anthology featuring:
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Hermione:
When a goddess is almost killed by bleeding out - it's serious.
Good thing they got to me in time, while I was still a cat.
Now my shape-shifting was on hold until I healed.
For the last few centuries or so, I'd been happy as a library cat. But, then I got bored, and started helping out with simple missions.
Because of that ambush, I was stuck in a human-shape. At least, I wasn't dead.
But,...
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