Found 60 works tagged 'magic'.
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Light of a Thousand Suns
Published Jun 3, 2020 · 5,468 words (20 minutes) · 80 views
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Don't you think that if magic truly existed that there would be more important uses for it than love spells or turning princes into frogs? In our world where the threats are so huge most people can't even recognize them wouldn't the real wizards and magicians, the good ones, be working to save us all? Those are the questions a unremarkable mall cop faces when he visits a trailer at the edge of the parking lot.
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The Black Veils
Published May 25, 2020 · 1,056 words (4 minutes) · 151 views
A young woman is forced to make an impossible choice.
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The Common Good
Published Apr 27, 2020 · 2,091 words (8 minutes) · 53 views
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An important member of the village, whose well-being is vital to the economic health of many townsfolk, is dying. Magic can be used to save him -- perhaps. But magic has a cost: if someone is to live, another must die. One with a lot of potential living still to come. A child. Tanner has to cast a vote.
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The Legacy of Beatrice Frost
Published Apr 17, 2020 · 958 words (4 minutes) · 138 views
Fantasy Science Fiction magic Feminism Superheroes witch ice
Beatrice Frost may be writing her final letter to her daughter, but she isn't done influencing the world. Not by a long shot.
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Deputy Death
Published Mar 21, 2020 · 5,881 words (22 minutes) · 191 views
Fantasy Horror Humor powers Death Personified contemporary magic young adult teen
When a strange man comes to her family's suburban door, Liz was intrigued. She didn't expect him to know far more about her and her not-so-secret mystical power than a stranger had any right.
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Dear Parents, Your Child Is Not the Chosen One
Published Mar 7, 2020 · 2,250 words (9 minutes) · 126 views
Fantasy Humor Satire chosen one dark lord epistolary magic School Teacher
The selected letters of a put upon magic school teacher to the parents of one Rodney Goodblood, unacceptably average student. (Originally published in Diabolical Plots, 2019)
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The Happiest Place
Published Feb 19, 2020 · 4,396 words (16 minutes) · 10 likes · 603 views
Fantasy contemporary magic princess Wishes
Maddie makes ends meet playing a princess in a theme park. It’s an easy enough gig—except when she’s trying to put on a happy face for a terminally ill kid and her family. But when a mysterious tiara turns up, she learns wishes may actually come true... at a very steep price.
Carrie Vaughn is the author of several bestselling fantasy and science fiction novels and more than 80 short stories. Her work has won the Philip K. Dick Award and been nominated for two Hugo Awards. After a nomadic childhood, she put down roots in Boulder, Colorado.
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Christmas at Aunt Sally's
Published Feb 12, 2020 · 7,038 words (26 minutes) · 204 views
Fantasy Humor Strange food magic urban fantasy violence
A story about festive gatherings, new partners and strange family dynamics.
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Becca and the River
Published Feb 11, 2020 · 990 words (4 minutes) · 742 views
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A love story.
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The Witch of Tarup
Published Feb 9, 2020 · 4,266 words (16 minutes) · 230 views
Fantasy Historical Romance denmark magic historical fantasy disability Witchcraft
Dagny needs a witch to raise the wind and put her new husband's windmill back in business. But no one in the village of Tarup will tell her who the witch is. Her husband might know, but a stroke has rendered him unable to speak. To find the witch, Dagny also has to find her place--in Tarup, and in her new and fragile marriage.
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