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March 21, 2019
The Moon Buck
It felt like Jimmy’d walked up and punched him in the back. Jeremiah staggered forward, the sound of the gunshot ringing in his ears as a fine spray of blood erupted from his chest. His legs went weak. Glancing back toward the truck, he saw Jimmy lowering the hunting rifle from his shoulder. “Why?” he […]
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March 15, 2019
Wind of an Alien World
The wind wailed through the remains of the outpost, burying corroded machinery in a shifting tide of fine red silt. “This is pointless,” Lyndie said, not for the first time, from the right seat of the lander. “You think there’s going to be anything salvageable left in there?” He waved a scarred hand at a […]
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March 8, 2019
Review: Blood Crystal
In the aptly-named Blood Crystal, twins Delvina and Retza face the aftermath of the banishment of the evil Overseer Uzza. The Glimmer Heart that powers their people’s subterranean world is failing, and time is running out for the Darane to find a solution. It falls to the intrepid twins to embark on a wildly dangerous […]
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March 1, 2019
Review: Heart of the Mountain
A while back I reviewed Ruhanna’s Flight & Other Stories, a superb collection of short tales by author Jeanette O’Hagan. One of the stories that resonated with me the most was Heart of the Mountain, so I was pleased to learn it has its own series. Heart is the tale of a young Adelphi shape-shifter […]
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February 22, 2019
Fun With Spammers II
It’s time for another installment of Fun with Spammers, in which the author takes apart a hapless spammer and subjects him to a brutal round of mockery. Do spammers annoy you too? Then this series is for you! A marketing pitch turn up in my contact form submissions recently, wedged at the bottom of the […]
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February 15, 2019
KDP Print: A Word of Warning
As most authors who used CreateSpace are aware, last fall Amazon axed the service in order to increase enrollment in their new KDP Print program. What follows is an account of my transition to the new service and how books printed by KDP compare to those from CreateSpace. This tale holds a couple of important […]
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February 8, 2019
Ghosts and Shadows
The Moon Festival has come to the riverfront slums: a time when ghosts and shadows walk the streets, returning to visit their loved ones. Some visitors are more welcome than others. This is the third installment of a three-part series. New to the story? Start here! – Nonya woke to the foggy gray light of morning […]
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February 1, 2019
The Moon Children
The Moon Festival has come to the riverfront slums. Spirits –Moon Children– walk the streets, returning to visit their loved ones. Little do the residents know, more than just spirits are drawn to the bowls of food left out for the Children. This is the second installment of a three-part series. Haven’t read part one […]
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January 24, 2019
Flash Fiction: Escaped
Rumor was, the only place the escaped subject could have gone was into the water. It seemed to take the authorities a little while to conclude that they wanted to search the city’s noxious waterways, but this was a city that never did anything by half measures. The search teams were out on the water […]
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January 18, 2019
Realism In Writing: Character Age
Recently I stumbled across a thread where a group of fans were emphatically agreeing that the protagonists of a book should have been written as 19-22 instead of 14-18. “Kaz acts more like 20-21 than 17. Like I understand traumas and life can force kids to grow up too fast, but his whole personality and […]
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