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  • The Next Tower: From the New Normal

    A short story from the anthology The New Normal

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  • Firefly Fish: Ch 1

    Firefly Fish: Ch 1

    Marin Goranich wanted to be an artist. The Great Depression saw to a different profession: fish trawling. When a hurricane destroys the cliff face he lives on, Marin encounters a wounded merman. In trying to save the creature’s tail, the would-be artist learns the hard way that he may be a little more fish than…

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  • Roman Jewels: A Play

    Roman Jewels: A Play

    Starcrossed lovers under a cutlass laced sky.

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  • Polaris Skies: Ch 14

    Polaris Skies: Ch 14

    Well toward midnight, the group came across a shallow hole in the side of a hill that led into a stump of a cave. The group collapsed at the edge of the darkness, neither eager to bury themselves in pitch-blackness nor be left out in the open.

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  • Polaris Skies: Ch 13

    Polaris Skies: Ch 13

    Hana sat in a locked utility closet on the first floor where her brother had shoved her. Sleet pattered on the roof of the building two stories above her. Footsteps echoed in the hall, growing louder. A key slipped into the lock on the door, and the hinges creaked as the heavy metal door slipped…

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  • Polaris Skies: Ch 12

    Polaris Skies: Ch 12

    You wanted to know what happened to make Michael hate you so much? You’re not going to like it, Shaman, Sven whispered maliciously as his host rode the black waves of unconsciousness.

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  • Polaris Skies: Ch 9

    Polaris Skies: Ch 9

    Five days sifted over the treetops and through the underbrush as they waited for Hana to come back to the land of the living. When the camp settled and sleep overtook the group, the wolves emerged, and Sven refused to give up his spot to Nat. The white beast curled around the bird-woman and refused…

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  • Polaris Skies: Ch 8

    Polaris Skies: Ch 8

    They packed their bags and collapsed the tent. Sleep had done the pack good. They were in a relatively jovial mood as they walked farther and farther from Portland and the sights of war. The highways had been destroyed to an extent, but there were still fragments of road leading them into potato country. They…

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  • Polaris Skies: Ch 7

    Polaris Skies: Ch 7

    The white wolf paced in his head, begging for attention. Nat rolled, opening his eyes to the field they had set up in late the night before. The sound of the tent zipper had woken him in the frosty dawn. The women had taken the tent at his insistence. With work, and more than one…

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  • Polaris Skies: Ch 6

    Polaris Skies: Ch 6

    Hana woke in fits and bursts. An hour after settling into the room, the group grew restless with her starts. The woman was jittery, which placed their wolves on edge.

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