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L.N. Holmes

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L. N. Holmes is the author of The Floating Castle, a dark fantasy novel, and the micro-chapbook, Space, Collisions (Ghost City Press). Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, have appeared in Newfound, F(r)iction, Vestal Review, Crack the Spine, Barren Magazine, and other literary journals and magazines. She has won a handful of awards for her writing, including the 2018 Apparition Lit April Flash Fiction Contest.

She lives in Ohio with her husband, son, dog, and cat.

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Rings of Adventure Anthology and Kickstarter

Mike Mollman reached out to me a while ago about an anthology that he and Rosaire Bushey wanted to do together, and Mike asked me if I wanted to be a part of it. Of course I said yes. Pass up an adventure with this crew (see below)? Absolutely not!

For those who don’t know about the Rings of Adventure anthology, it’s a collection of short stories (fantasy, science fiction, horror, and romance)

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Average rating: 4.6 · 58 ratings · 28 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Floating Castle (Dragon Gate #1) 4.47 avg rating — 36 ratings — 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
	Space, Collisions 4.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2018 — 5 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
	F(r)iction #2, Summer 2015 by Dani Hedlund (Editor), L.N. Holmes (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015 — 2 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
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Eden's Rise: The Empire Under the Mountains

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“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.”
― Deng Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

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“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

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