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The Singing Shore I: Sea and Song

by E.P. Clark

All magical gifts are wild. The seer’s gift is the wildest of all. Dasha, Tsarinovna of all of Zem’, was expected to have great magical gifts. Why else would the gods have arranged her conception? But instead of anything useful, Dasha’s gifts first manifested themselves as visions of terror and destruction. Then, just when it seemed she might be gaining some control over them, they abandoned her entirely. That’s unfortunate, because Dasha could really use some guidance right now. She’s vo... more

Babouc's Vision

by Glenn Searfoss

The year is 2041 - and the gods are angry. While Carissa scours the city garbage for food and pretty things to show her grandfather, Tom and April strive to prove themselves genetically suitable to conceive a child. Luis fights to protect his unborn son from the gangs. Nora sits alone in her dark apartment, old, tired, and waiting to die. And Izzy, how did he end up on the street? In the backroom of his appliance repair shop, Harl Babouc putters at his workbench unaware the Gods have chosen him ... more

Balloon: Altitude

by Christopher Keith

How do you survive a nuclear attack? Fly on a helium balloon to the stratosphere.

The space tourism project has taken many years of meticulous planning, the assembly of a highly trained crew, and a small fortune to embark on its groundbreaking journey into the uncharted stratosphere.

As the fragile peace below shatters and nuclear war erupts, the crew of five onboard Fable Sky, the world’s largest zero-pressure helium balloon, finds themselves thru... more

The Cupid Chronicles

by DENNIS COPELAN

A social worker and angel-in-training in heaven is assigned to advocate for an unruly Cupid's assistant and keep him from being "flushed" to the lower regions for violations of the Cupid's Oath. This is a Fix-up novel that contains short stories, which are thematically connected.

The Know-It-All Pencil

by Lois Wickstrom

It's Caspian's UnBirthday again. This year, Grandpa gives him a pencil and a small pad of paper. When Caspian picks up the pencil, it writes the word APPLE. What does a pencil know? Grandpa says "It's a STAR adventure." But there are no apples in the house. Caspian rescues a runaway walker and returns in to the woman whose leg is in a cast. She gives him an orange. He trades the orange for two bananas. He trades the bananas for a worm. Eventually he gets apples. The pencil tells him to take them... more

The Mermaid and the Rainbow

by Lois Wickstrom

Trezzie, Maia, and Fig swap science tricks using treasures from the mermaid's secret box. Best of all, they make a rainbow with a mirror, a piece of paper, and a glass of water. Trezzie is Maia's imaginary playmate. Fig is her human friend. Together, they make a great team.

The Sight

by V. H. Mizzell

What if in the near future a thousand people worldwide spontaneously developed the ability to see the future?What if they began crashing financial markets, winning lotteries, bankrupting casinos?What if the governments of the World blamed the phenomenon on each other? Claiming cyber attacks?And the result - worldwide nuclear war! Then three hundred years later .....

Rion of the Free State - a young warrior living in a Post-Apocalyptic world three hundred years in the future - has a recu... more

De Cineribus: From the Ashes

by Thomas Vaccaro

When your greatest dream is born from spite, will it make you truly happy? Over half a century of strife has passed since the Revelation, where magic was revealed to the world. Now in 2116, humans and sorcerers—referred to by humanity as magi—are engaged in a quiet struggle for global dominance. Though many magi live safely within the walls of the mysterious Medeian Empire, uncounted more live beyond its enchanted isles at the mercy of human fear, suspicion, and scorn, including one Felix Bra... more

ARKO: The Dark Union

by U.W. Leo

A group of tweens unearth the most significant discovery in world history, designed to save the human species...from itself. Ariel Hyden and his friends accompany their parents, some of the world’s top scientists, on a trip to the Yucatán where Dr. Hyden is conducting research for the Mexican government. On the kids’ exploration of nearby old Mayan grounds, they discover an impossibly advanced structure hidden for millions of years in the bowels of the earth that is responsible for the past—a... more

Coligo

by Lee S. Hannon

In The City, Governor Colin O'Connor and his counterpart, The Supreme, attempt to unify a tense society while competing for power. While contemplating his next move, Colin is drawn to Dr. Julie Walsh, the inventor of a life-saving antidote. When Colin offers Julie his help to bring her discovery before The City's most innovative biotech company, COLI*GO, she can't say no. But Julie soon discovers Colin has his own dark secret: he and his accomplice will do anything to protect The City, inclu... more

The Stones of Valtara

by Christopher Clargo

VENGEFUL GODS, BLOODY BATTLES, POLITICAL INTRIGUE

A THOUSAND YEARS OF WAR, BUT THE WORST IS YET TO COME

It is said the Goddess Enora set fire to the Void the day she defeated Velak in the great war of the gods. Yet even as the ancients slipped into the shadows of myth, the dark god’s disciples never forgot, never surrendered, and never stopped waging war against those that followed the goddess.

And so it would be for a thousand years u... more

The Unwanted Prophet

by Carolina Cruz

Quincy Sauer is in jail. As far as she’s concerned, she deserves to be there. Little does she know, she won’t be there for much longer. A god is plotting to undermine his own priests, and she is his pawn of choice. Going from criminal to prophet would be a difficult transition under even the best circumstances, but Quincy’s luck is about to turn from bad to worse. Corrupt priests, cults, and threats unknown stand between Quincy and the answer to her greatest questions. Has the god of life and de... more

A Buzz Volume 1

by Jacob Lightman

In an ancient alternate history, four distinct regions of South America have merged to form one technologically advanced nation called The Land. Twenty-one-year-old Commander Jaway Barbour leads his young crew on military missions against the final remaining holdouts against the empire—the exploited tribes of the Wild Territory. When a bomb explodes, damaging their ship, it sends the crew on unexpected adventures. How will Jaway and the other youthful risk-takers navigate life and love in... more

The Grim

by K. H. Nelson

Sólan the Grim is dead. He was murdered by the Duke of the tundra—his father. No, he was beheaded by the forest's Prince for his failure to swear the Oath of Light. Actually, he was strangled by an infamous drug smuggler of the tropics. Tortured and killed at the hands of the desert's mortal King for his crimes. Perhaps he is not dead at all. The half-mortal bastard son of an Elf Duke, Sólan de Ciudelago learned to cheat death as a child. His mere existence has tumbled the Eastern Lands... more

One Winter's Kiss: A Beautiful Nightmare Story

by L.C. Son

This Christmas get lost in the grandeur of Elysian Manor. It's Elysian Manor's turn to host the Supernatural Regency for their annual cotillion. The one time of year where a faction of human nobles, vampires, wolves and more collide to share in one common goal, civility. But that goal of civility will be tested when the forbidden love of a dutiful daughter and a hybrid wolf reveals a new and dangerous threat.

Hero Maker

by Tom Starace

A teen haunted by dreams discovers he has special powers, revealing that superheroes are hidden among us every day. A 16-year-old with exceptional abilities is thrust into a life of danger in this fascinating YA magical realism story. Sixteen-year-old Adam is haunted by dreams that leave him exhausted and confused. When a memory of a long-forgotten experience comes back to him, tying him to someone’s perilous escape from death, his special power comes flooding back to him—the power to ma... more

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