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Kyla Phillips

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in The United States

Website

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Short Stories

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Clifford D. Simak, Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card ...more

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July 2012

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Kyla became a SciFi/Fantasy addict at age three watching Doctor Who on late nights up with her mom. She discovered her love of reading and writing in the third grade reading Robert A. Heinlein and Piers Anthony and trying to create stories like her heroes.

Currently she lives in Ohio with her grandmother and her dog, Mya – named after a SciFi character. She is inspired by the musing of her fellow writers in the Entropy writing group and hanging out at Barberton Public Library.

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	The Wildest Place 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Agent of Light: Council of Light 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Was it Worth it

Purpose: Was it Worth It is my first attempt at a more literary style of writing. Again it is a darker piece of Fantasy exploring the question; is it better to rule in hell than serve in Heaven. In this piece, I choose to answer it against my own instincts for the challenge of it. I believe in writing it is good to reexamine the convention, look at life from another point of view. After all, isn’

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Finding Friends (Interstellar Refugees Book 3)

by Daniel Ellrick (Goodreads Author)

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The Immeasurable Heaven

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Cyborgs and ice planets This was an engaging scif novella. It gave me a big enough taste of the world that I want more. Bat is so cute I want one. I'm 100% on board with the mcs desire to avoid humans they just mess stuff up ...more
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“Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.”
― John Twelve Hawks, The Traveler

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“simplicity can often become failure. If you're not careful”
― Dalian Artanian

tags: fantasy-scifi

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“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: hope, human-nature

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