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  • Life of a Librarian: Chapter 2

    It was cold in the room, but I could already feel the pits in my shirt growing moist.  Lovely.  Just lovely.  My bright, chipper mood had crumbled into the dust bin, alongside my motivation to even be in the room. I wanted to go get in my car and go home.

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  • Life of a Librarian: Ch 1

    Life of a Librarian: Ch 1

    Thaddeus Jaeger just wants a job. The Librarian’s Guild wants an assassin. Genre: adult, fantasy, romance

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  • Mademoiselle Chartreux and Monsieur Ortolan

    What has become of Monsieur Ortolan?

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  • Captain’s Log: Red Sea Witch

    Day 2 in a Red Sea Witch bay Dark and stormy nights they said. Maelstroms and typhoons they warn about. Anything and everything that can tear the sails and overload the bilge pump. What they don’t warn you about are the crosses along the shores. The ones far and away from any proper lighthouse. There…

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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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  • 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 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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  • Polaris Skies: Ch 4

    Polaris Skies: Ch 4

    In the morning, the friends found themselves not in warm beds but in a freezing tent. Their body heat seeped out through the thin shell of second-hand polyester. Benj, first to wake, tiptoed out of the tent, letting in a draft.

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  • Polaris Skies: Ch 3

    Polaris Skies: Ch 3

    The trees that surrounded the area loomed over the site like ancient guardians protecting their tiny treasures Nat and his friends hunkered down into the snow-covered grass, bracing themselves against the chill wind that blew in from the north of them. It smelled of wood smoke and burning gas.

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