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Swords and Sigils by Sharon T. Rose

What would you do to create your place in the world?

Melkeen is a prodigy, a young Wizard with incredible magikal abilities. Sarta is a barbarian blade-for-hire of unbelievable skill. Together, they are a formidable team.  And the world is against them. Required by his elder (and rival) Wizards to search out rare and dangerous artifacts, a young man hires a woman to guard him on his travels. Their contract is . . .

A serialized novel, with no recent updates.
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Fickle Fortune by Jeffrey Sabiston

Clarissa and James meet one winter day, and they quickly fall in love and get married.  This novel is about James’s relationship with Clarissa, how Clarissa loses James, and how she recovers.  In addition to this main plot, there are several subplots. . . .

A serialized novel, updating daily.
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Darkside by S.K.S. Perry

When you're dead, wishing you were is kind of counter-productive.

James Decker just won’t stay dead.  Slain while rescuing a young woman from a would-be rapist, he finds himself in a pseudo-life, caught between two realities, belonging to neither.  Haunted by the ghosts of his father and grandfather, he learns that the woman he rescued is in fact an Innocent, the physical embodiment of hope.  As it turns out, seeing . . .

A complete novel.
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Marcasite Waves by Miladysa

Short stories with a variety of themes, including hauntings, madness, lost love. . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated infrequently.
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Fog Island Flowers by Tonya R. Moore

Jonathan Baron’s music has left him and so has the love of his life, a woman he’s no longer certain even really exists.  Convinced that his buried childhood memories are the key to determining whether or not she was merely a figment of his imagination, he seeks out his family’s ancestral home. From the moment he sets foot unto . . .

A serialized novel, updating fortnightly.
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The Key by Lauren Delaney

Being a mage was great until it became a label for extermination...

Marianne Rivers is the only mage she knows—that is, until another mage named Aeryn stumbles into her tranquil life.  She soon learns that, outside the safety of her secluded village, the king of Altrud is invading other kingdoms and turning his own into an empire.  On top of that, he is convincing everyone that mages’ powers are not natural, but . . .

A serialized novel, updating sporadically.
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Songs from the Other Side of the Wall by Dan Holloway

Murakami's Norwegian Wood set in Eastern Europe

18 year-old Szandi is part of Budapest’s cosmopolitan art scene, sharing a flat and a bohemian lifestyle with her lover and fellow sculptress, Yang.  She has finally found her place in the world.  Then a letter arrives that threatens everything, and forces her to choose once and for all: between the past and the present; between East and West; between . . .

A complete novel.
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Stranded by Maija Koivula

A story of the sea and love, with coconuts

Stranded is a non-linear, fragmented short-story set in a fantasy world.  It’s the story of a shipwreck, written as obscure first-person diary entries. . . .

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DARKSIDE

In a nutshell: I liked it.

Editor: Sarah Suleski
January 15, 2009

First and foremost: Darkside is fun.  It’s a rollicking fantasy adventure that starts with a bang and doesn’t slow down.  It has humor, likable characters, and an engaging first person narrator.

The summary sums up the story well (I know, who would have thunk it, right?) so there’s really not much [more . . .]

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SWORDS AND SIGILS

Magick & Muscles

Member: Miladysa
January 9, 2010

Take a young wizard named Melkeen, add a sword named Sarta and sprinkle with magick.  Add a dash of rivalry and religion, balance it with masculine and feminine, divide with youth and experience and you have a good old fashioned piece of pure escapism!  Sword and Sigils is an enchanting story and I thoroughly chilled out as I whizzed through [more . . .]

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