The follow up to the award-winning Laundered – An Anthology of Monster Messes.When hitting the grocery store is as adventuresome as your life gets, we've got some truly epic journeys for your action-craved reading pleasure!Epic usually means long. Not for these journeys. The Legion of Dorks has managed to cram an enormous amount of travel into bite-sized stories.Sail with a queen as she travels across the sea desperately trying to save her kingdom and...

When a fire destroys her home and scatters her colony, Small Cat sets out to find the home of her ancestor, the Cat From the North, and to make her own name along the way."Johnson’s customarily elegant style and matter-of-fact narration keep the story from ever coming close to the Hello Kitty Frodo tale its title would seem to imply."--LocusAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

***LOOK!!*** Klawdia is a character in The Healers of Meligna series as well."I would take Skelkra's power sooner or later, it didn't matter. I would take everything from him, like he had from me."Unwilling to kill her child, Klawdia flees her home Vilseek, giving up her heirdom and family. Her Father, the leader of the Bears and chieftain of Ruxdor, will never stop hunting her now she has betrayed him. Alone in the depths of the snowtimes, she must find re...

TABETHA BRIGHT may be the cleverest most resourceful girl ever to scoot around in a wheelchair. But when pneumonia confines her to the old city hospital her eighth birthday brings a mysterious gift -- a magic marker thats truly magic. With it she draws herself into the enchanted world of Wrush where a MUNGLING (her mentor) makes an unusual proposition: Come back to the floating city of Etherios to help find the lost Answer and Tabetha will become the new Empress of Wrush. Tabetha is reluct...

Book Nine of Ten. When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world.

Darweena must choose to fight for the Forest Folk in an epic battle against the beasts. Will she choose love over her home? A short story of 3700 words.

Water is the most yielding of all elements, changing to fit its container, whether that be a thimble or a lake bed. At the same time, anyone who has ever watched the unrelenting progression of a tsunami understands its raw power. Associated with mutability and the subconscious, Water is both the tranquil azure of a tropical sea and the tumultuous waves and whitecaps of an embroiled ocean. As many faces as Water may wear, the creatures within and associated with it have even more.Di...

All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. Some doubles are benign, others wicked. This legend comes to life in Alain Mabanckou’s outlandish, surreal, and charmingly nonchalant Memoirs of a Porcupine.When Kibandi, a boy living in a Congolese village, reaches the age of 11, his father takes him out into the night and forces him to drink a vile liquid from a jar that has been hidden for years in the earth. This is his initiation. From now on, he and his ...

In the aftermath of the events surrounding the Ravenstone, the tracker named Hawkwing and the former bandit known as the White Demon try to evade a clandestine organization known as the Seroko.**The Hawk's Shadow is a short story**

Five out of this world short stories that include a dragon, a zombie, a vampire and epigenetics to give reality a kick in the butt for a minute or two.

The Darker CarnivalDespairing parents Berthold and Renilda Ordwald hire Markhat to rescue their daughter Alfreda from the clutches of a sinister traveling circus which just pitched its tents outside Rannit’s walls. The Ordwalds claim Alfreda was snatched from her home three years ago, and forced to perform on the carnival midway as the cadaverous Living Dead Girl.Markhat takes the case. Soon he and Darla discover something sinister hiding beneath the bright...

Akira is a vampire, an energy vampire. He can control and manipulate energy with his mind. Chapter one delves into Akira's future, his abilities, powers, and he fights against a vampire who can summon demons. Chapter two introduces Akira before he became a vampire; it is the beginning of Akira's story, his life, his love, his village, and his family. Enjoy the start of an epic adventure!!Chp: 1&2