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Something Familiar - Chapter 1
Published May 22, 2019 · 632 words (3 minutes) · 19 views
Fantasy Witchcraft contemporary Shape-shifter magic young adult teen urban fantasy Paris
Follow a runaway shape-shifter’s quest for a safe home and a teen witch’s search for a familiar. This is the first chapter of a new novella.
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The Deer Girl Hitches a Ride
Published May 22, 2019 · 2,428 words (9 minutes) · 2 likes · 9 views
On her way to one of the last outposts of civilization in the West, a trucker picks up an unusual hitchhiker.
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Neither Fishing nor Mending Nets chapter 12
Published May 22, 2019 · 1,906 words (7 minutes) · 1 like · 31 views
Humor Literary Fiction Alcoholism disabled lead character lgbt
We discover what happened to Raymond, and Alice has to face an unexpected visitor. This is chapter twelve of a larger work, which deals with a disabled young woman in a rural community and the people she comes to know once she leaves home. This will update fortnightly
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The Resident
Published May 22, 2019 · 2,264 words (9 minutes) · 1 like · 19 views
Fantasy Horror Humor Magical Realism haunted house Baen
This is another tale that appeared in Jim Baen's Universe. Most of the story was from a vivid dream that stopped just a few paragraphs shy of the end. It was as if the Writing Muses had designed a test in which I must choose whether the story I was telling was humor or horror. Me, being me, I opted for both. It's about an estate agent and a "haunted" house.
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Til The Wildness Cried Aloud
Published May 21, 2019 · 2,936 words (11 minutes) · 19 views
Science Fiction SciFi ribofunk genetic manipulation
My first published story, this appeared in Say, Why Aren't We Crying? Paul DiFilippo labelled it 'ribofunk' in a kind review.
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The Terroir From Beyond Space
Published May 21, 2019 · 4,058 words (15 minutes) · 2 likes · 13 views
Horror Humor Satire Science Fiction Anthology Travel Solar System Cookbook food Drink space Report short story
In this early short story, originally published in the Ouen Press 2018 Short Story Competition Anthology, what starts out as a deep Solar System explorer's guide to food in space gradually turns into something more dire.
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A Very Long Denouement
Published May 21, 2019 · 514 words (2 minutes) · 29 views
Magical Realism spiders vignette cozy horror
A Very Long Denouement is an ongoing series of low-conflict vignettes in a magical realist setting.
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Launch Window
Published May 21, 2019 · 4,247 words (16 minutes)
Misty books a redeye flight to the Moon, desperate to stop her sister from making a terrible mistake.
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Heart of Brass, Chapter 3 of 4: The End of the Hall (or, Jameson’s Cage)
Published May 21, 2019 · 3,273 words (12 minutes) · 1 view
Fantasy Love steampunk serial happy ending erotica
Duke Gallantine's suspicious watch has kept his daughter out of The Chastarium, but not out of Dr. Dashiell's fantasies. When Lady Gallantine finally slips away from her father and arrives at The Chastarium for a secret midnight treatment, Dr. Dashiell seizes the chance to show her his most exclusive Machine of all. (Warning: erotica.)
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The Fat Man
Published May 21, 2019 · 5,098 words (19 minutes) · 10 views
Science Fiction sacrifice Apocalyptic Fiction Mother/daughter
When climate change and resource conflicts release a flood of US civil war refugees into Canada’s state of martial law, Miche and her daughter wonder if people can be saved by sacrificing a few. And if so, which few?
