• Review: By Marsh and By Moor by Annick Trent

    A thorough historical world build that many authors would benefit from analyzing for style.

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  • To Be Read Pile

    To Be Read Pile

    I really do need to keep track of that TBR pile in my Kobo. So many good reads I forget are there.

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  • Review: A Suitable Consort by R. Cooper

    The first book in the Suitable series makes for a lovely, if sparkly first impression to the series.

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  • Review: A Suitable Captive by R. Cooper

    Spicy gay Robin Hood. That could sum it up, but the Suitable series at large benefits from this piece.

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  • Review: The Driftcap Inn by Kate Valent

    Sweet in the way daffodil shoots promise cute flowers, this story fits a lot into its pages.

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  • Firefly Fish: Chapter 9

    Firefly Fish: Chapter 9

    Jarl wasn’t joking about the don’t drown bit. At the front steps of the boarding house, a floor down, I encountered a world turned on its head. The water level lapped three steps up. Murk and gunk drifted in the high water.

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  • Firefly Fish: Chapter 8

    Firefly Fish: Chapter 8

    Late into the night, or maybe early into the morning, I put away my guitar and set my mandolin back in its cradle. The winds continued to slam the boarding house, but I could not keep my eyes open any longer. My shoulders were feeling better, for one having been bit a few hours before…

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  • Life of a Librarian: Ch 6

    Life of a Librarian: Ch 6

    I found myself in a small four-foot by four-foot by six-foot box of a room when I finally woke up.  I guess they figured that by confining me to a small enough area that I wouldn’t be stupid enough to invoke anything that would take up too much space.

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  • Life of a Librarian: Ch 5

    Life of a Librarian: Ch 5

    I waited for Claude at the base of the stairs.  I didn’t know if I was slotted for more quizzes, or if I could go, but I knew that I wasn’t going to wait very long to find out.  I may not have memorized a lot of books, but I could at least remember enough…

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  • The Feather on My Scale: Chapter 2

    “Think he would fit in?” I tugged off a stack of gold rings upon entering one of my office chambers. “One way to find out.” Ptolemy grabbed the wab by the collar, pushing him against the wall.

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