Category: Excerpts
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Penelope Paradise – Awake
Penelope sat on a wooden bench sandwiched between a busy street and the dwindling traffic of City Hall. She sat picking and wrenching at her fingers and hands. The sun was just hiding behind the Parks Clock Tower. He was late. Of all the days to be extraordinarily late. Penelope sighed and glanced at her…
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Fire’s Soul – the King
The King bowed his head and sighed. This was the third time Trystan Dryden had requested an audience to complain about his brother. He refused to count the number of times Triton had come to the capitol for the same purpose. When will these boys ever learn? The King thought. His headache that had begun…
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Lost Wolf – The Run
“Bobby! C’mon, kiddo!” The grunts and huffs of running beasts grew louder behind us. “Denni, I don’t think we’re going to make it…” “Shut up and run!” “There must be hundreds of ‘em, Denni!” I glanced over at my brother, running beside me. His auburn hair, cut short and shaved close to his skull on the sides, had started to matte with sweat. His usually gelled…
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Lost Girl – Ambushed
Clowns, why did it have to be clowns? It could have been Kelpie, or even my mother-in-law for Pete’s sake, but instead I was granted with rainbow costumes, squeaky noses, obnoxiously permed bright-colored wigs, and oversized shoes – and as a real bonus, razor sharp teeth and claws. All I wanted was a nice, relatively…