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Tattoo by Candace McBride

Magic, murder, and monsters

Though pompous with its modern advancements, Sybar City has always fostered a seedy underbelly stretching back millennia. Glory, a humble scholar with a talent for occult research, is unwillingly thrust into this world of ancient malevolent races and scientific exploitation. A girl with issues, she would just as soon crawl into a bookshelf and never come back out, leaving a . . .

A serialized novel, updating Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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Dark Icon Original Fiction by Dark Icon

All of us, even the world itself, began in darkness.

Original works of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.  Ten years of novels, short stories, and serial fiction.  All free. . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated thrice weekly.
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The New Bedlam Project by Jodi Lee (editor)

Something is wrong in New Bedlam...

The New Bedlam Project follows the adventures of numerous and sundry characters found in the past, present and future of one messed up little town.  Originally started as a companion piece to the Courting Morpheus anthology, the webzine has taken on a life of its own. We publish several short stories and a selection of poetry in each quarterly . . .

An online magazine of fiction, updated infrequently.
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The Blessing Curse by Karma Girl

Blessings with the right hand, curses with the left, and death will follow her wherever she goes.

As the curse of Talia is passed down through the generations, Reza becomes the most recent recipient.  She is gifted with the ability to bless friends and family and to curse her enemies with a touch, but this gift comes with a heavy price.  Every night she dreams of her death-a horrible fate she can not prevent. When the . . .

A serialized novel, updating sporadically.
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Black Alice by Marci Sischo and James Agle

Detroit has a hero, someone to stand against the forces of darkness, and resist the rising tide of horror and bloodshed. This isn’t his story. Alice Frye is an Artificer living in Highland Park, and she’s perfectly happy running her curio shop full of gewgaws and magical artifacts while her zombified late husband handles the cleaning and grocery shopping. . . .

A complete novel.
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Unusual Circumstance by Timothy Dumont Jr.

Follows the adventures of a small group dedicated to exploring supernatural mysteries.  During the course of the adventure new characters are introduced and pasts revealed.  The POV of the posts are stated in the title and switch between several of the characters.  It starts out as a journal but changes into a normal story as it progresses.  The author uses . . .

An ongoing series, with new episodes sporadically.
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Blood Moon by Belial Leveler

Chronicles of a Modern Vampire

What happens when the creatures of the night and modern technology meet?  Is it true that vampires are masters of seduction and manipulation?  Are old legends of creatures such as werewolves, fae, mages and demons true? Follow the adventures of Erika, master vampire and walking social disaster, as she finds her place in a world of darkest night. . . .

An abandoned series.
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DARK ICON ORIGINAL FICTION

A Mixture of Things

Editor: Jim Zoetewey
September 13, 2008

The Dark Icon Original Fiction web site contains a wide variety of stories set in different and interesting worlds. I only spent a significant amount of time with two.

I read all (so far) of the on-going web serial "Court of the Abominatrix" and a couple stories from the "Magekiller" series [more . . .]

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TATTOO

A very enjoyable read

Member: Xirena
August 1, 2009

It is a very enjoyable story, I think that there are enough little plot twists for this to be a long lived series. The magical influence of the story is widely varied due to the heroine’s in depth study of magic over the years, her eyes are wide open compared to the rest of the world so almost nothing can [more . . .]

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