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The enigmatic Peacock King, ruler of half of the known world, seeks to possess the land itself by enslaving the spirits of the wild. Gerald, a newly initiated Poet whose magic is as real as he can write it, is also one of the Armed—enforcers of the Law who wield guns with souls. His mission: infiltrate the Peacock King’s Court . . .
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Tori McNulty has problems. As she’s putting her life back together, she’s attacked in Boston’s South End. She doesn’t remember much: mostly blood-drenched pavement and the crumpled body of her assailant. The good news is that she’s uninjured and not a murder suspect. The bad news is the obnoxious young man in 18th century dress shadowing her and confusing, violent . . .
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Marin Astoris had a vision a few years ago, of a mushroom cloud rising beyond the university’s iconic clocktower. A voice whispered in her ear, take a breath and wait to die. That vision never came to pass. Something else happened instead: an asteroid, a botched attempt to stop it from hitting earth, and a resulting cataclysm that left only . . .
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Horror micro-fiction offered as true accounts of paranormal encounters. Featuring ghost stories, monster stories, haunted house stories, vampire stories, stories where a monster jumps out and it’s all scary and stories where something like a ghost or a god walks by a window and somebody is scared and stories about scary trees. . . .
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The last Ilandu Wars ended over a century ago. Yet the Diot Republic still fights to regain its former glory. Its obstacles are many, its resources few. In this Dark Age, an Ilandu cult has risen. They are promised power. They are promised control. They are promised the secrets of the Blessed. Who shall rescue the fragile . . .
There’s a hole inside of Casey Way. He hasn’t slept in twenty years. When he does he sees his murdered father and strangers from missing persons fliers with boxes cut into their chests. Casey lives a tiny life in a tiny apartment with his boyfriend Joel and a garden of Venus Flytraps that remind him of being happy, before . . .
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Anton Macquarie is having a bad day. He woke up with a pounding head. He was late for work. He was attacked by a homeless woman with an apple core. His boss’ house was burnt down, his boss is now dead, and his replacement is going to turn the newspaper he works for into a sensationalist tabloid. He can’t . . .
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From the same universe as Dead Boyfriend, Howl is the story of hunter Eric St. John, a straight guy who suddenly finds himself with an unexpected, yet undeniable attraction to a mysterious man named Adam. Eric can’t explain why it seems impossible to resist his body’s impulse to submit so completely to the other man. But he’s beginning to . . .
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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. . . .
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Alain Beaudreaux, a vampire, loved a mortal woman for 64 years. Now she’s in Heaven and he’s determined to join her, but he’ll have to go through Hell to do it. Kurt Grey, a junior copywriter, hit on the wrong woman at the wrong time. Now he’s been thrown through a portal into Hell and has an angry vampire . . .
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Isobel Talbot’s life was a monotony, even her heartbreaks were predictable; but a chance encounter leaves her running for her life from the most terrible and impossible things. And worse yet, she’s fallen in love. . . .
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Phantasia Celeste has spent her life living in an ethereal world of flying islands and pretty people with soul-wings – but, unlike Phantasia, other faeries don’t have white hair or diamond eyes and so, driven to understand her place in the world, she travels to the human world. The 31st Century, however, is not a friendly place. A millennia . . .
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Demons and Deadlines is a horrific journey through Hell for the story of a lifetime. It goes beyond spine tingling and beyond gore to bring you a tale of what still lurks in the back of your dreams. . . .
Well, if you get tired of stories that take a long time to get going, you won’t have that problem here. It starts as a quiet day and routine sale for a Detroit witch in a curio shop, but next thing you know an unwelcome visitor is demanding help with some Things that used to be dogs, and after that [more . . .]
Summary: Phantasia is a faery "princess" living in the logic ruled society of the Water Queendom. The Queendom goes to war with a rogue queen who succumbed to the powers of darkness. Phantasia receives a mysterious tattoo from the Prince before he meets a tragic end. Now it is up to Phantasia to travel the world and learn more about [more . . .]