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Once upon a time, in a whimsical town nestled between the pages of enchanted books, there stood a marvel known to all as Fairy Tale Books.This charming bookstore held secrets untold and mysteries unexplored. The proprietors, Sir Ronnie and Lady Wendy, sought to do more than merely sell books. They dreamed of building a community, a place of welcoming whispers, ancient tales, newfound discoveries, and thrilling exploits.One fateful evening, while dragons, drones, and spacesh...

SOMETIMES THE BIGGEST HORRORS COME IN THE SMALLEST PACKAGES…There's nothing better than a short, sharp slice of flash fiction to get the mind working. 99 Tiny Terrors is an anthology that the reader can dip into for something deliciously dangerous in a short amount of time, or spend an afternoon trolling through blood-soaked stories from all over the world, including Canada, England, Germany, Greece, Ireland, India, Japan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the United Sta...

The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! In this volume you'll find:* Overworked fairies distributing swords.* Alien yeti slackers* Elf bakers* Absconded books* Superhero dance battles* Matchmakers ... in spaaace!This anthology contains the following stories:"The Hero of Small Things" by Amanda Sav...

The November/December 2020 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Ken Liu, Hal Y. Zhang, Brit E.B. Hvide, Martha Wells, Lee Mandelo, and John Wiswell. Reprint fiction by Maurice Broaddus. Essays by Meghan Ball, Meg Elison, Michi Trota, and K.A. Doore, poetry by Jane Yolen, Peter Tacy, Brandon O'Brien, Valerie Valdes, and Jennifer Crow, interviews with Ken Liu and Lee Mandelo by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Julie Dillon, and editorials by L...

It’s the third and final day of the cultural festival at Fiddich Academy, and everyone is excited for Aoi’s presentation, but for some reason nobody seems interested in seeing her students’ lightning sorcery demonstration. Knowing how hard they’ve worked, Aoi will need to act fast to prevent their hard work from going to waste. However, another problem awaits Aoi even after the cultural festival. There’s a student who has become a shut-in, and it’s Headmaster Glen’s own grandson. Aoi’s fac...

Soar to new heights of Science Fiction & Fantasy.Who are the top science fiction writers and illustrators of the future? The answer is here. Get to know tomorrow’s brightest creative talents chosen by some of today’s bestselling authors and celebrated artists including Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Larry Elmore, Brandon Sanderson, Dan dos Santos, and Robert J. Sawyer.Enter brilliantly realized worlds of dystopian politics, magical re...

The Locus Award-winning short story collection from the multiple-award winning brain of Charlie Jane Anders. Enter the wild and fantastic worlds of one of the brightest minds in science fiction today.A short story collection packed with infinite worlds and endless possibilities, from the electric mind of Charlie Jane Anders.Cracking open science fiction and fantasy ideas with joyous exuberance, Anders delivers a riotous cavalcade of ideas. These stories of ...

In this first short story, Operation Matchmaker, Vicky is introduced to Oxford and quickly shuffled off campus as not to embarrass the Dean. She finds a new roommate, Candice, and decides it is her duty to find her a boyfriend. Because "I'd so make an awesome matchmaker!" She inadvertently succeeds in her own hyper-loveable fashion. We also learn some of the reasons behind her dichotomy of genius and scatterbrained personality, and the reason she left her friends and family to attend Oxfor...

From the popular Twitter account @ASmallFiction, "simultaneously succinct and powerful. You'll be thinking about these stories long after you read them." (Matthew Inman,#1 New York Times bestselling author of How To Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You)For fans of the popular Twitter account @ASmallFiction comes a little book with a lot of big stories and images; some funny, some scary, but always thought-provoking! From the humorous to the ble...

Sometimes things aren't what we expect between life and death.

Eile and Sunny are two adventurous twenty-something girls who met when Eile rescued Sunny from being kidnapped by enemies of her parents. They fell in love, and after the crisis had been resolved they decided to live together.Sunny was still in danger, so their mentor, Medb hErenn, acquired a house for them in a secure gated community. She gave them the run of the place, but there was one room, in the basement, that was off limits.That didn't sit well with Sunny, who burned...

This is a collection of poems and short pieces, to entertain you. I thank you for taking the time to stop by. I hope you find a favorite among the pages. May the Lord truly bless your day. Ann