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"Suburban Legend" (approximately 6,400 words) rips from the headlines and twists the classic tale of a suburban husband accused of murdering his beautiful wife. "Artists Only" (approximately 3,500 words) tells the tale of a little girl who unhappily goes with her brother to the local traveling carnival. "Stew" (approximately 3,900 words) deals with a boy who decides it is right to go to war without understanding what it is truly like. "Grok" (approximately 4,000 words) is a the story of the mud-man of the local Renaissance Faire.

'A superbly told tale of folklore-infused fantasy, full of rising dread, set in a sharply observed Australian outback town.' Garth Nix Strange what chooses to flourish here. Which plants. Which stories. Bettina Scott lives a tidy, quiet life in Runagate, tending to her delicate mother and their...

Labyrinth of Shadows: The Witch's Rebirth, Part 1 isn't just another fantasy novel; it's an immersive experience that will grip you from the first word and linger long after you've turned the last. Marked by a forgotten past and bound by a love that transcends millennia, our heroine is reborn with a singular, vital purpose: to unlock a prophecy that holds the key to saving her world. But can she survive long enough to decipher its secrets?

 Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson, and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the science fiction and fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging stars in the field.  

The 32nd edition of Writers of the Future may be the best new book yet! Brand-new adventure through space, time, and possibility. Along the way these new authors will introduce you to fascinating characters such as Nate, a very loyal companion - like most werewolves would be. Keanie has a parasite that lets her morph and so transform into anyone. Liz owns a dinosaur maker, but raw ingredients can be a problem. Anna slaves away in a factory but her magic leaves her unfulfilled. These authors take creative writing to a whole new level!

The Six Fingers return to Northem with a powerful, magical artifact known as the Azure Font. They mount it atop the ancient Faellic tower, but have little idea of what comes next. When the Red Lady senses something "truly evil" rising in the south, they embark on their third expedition. It takes them across the nightmarish Sea of Spires and into the heart of Atmaa, the last kingdom untouched by the Askerati hordes. As they discover, something worse than child-burning zealots has awakened.

The Expeditions of the Six Fingers take listeners back to the dungeon-crawling origins of the medieval fantasy genre. Magic spells and weapons are few and far between. Monsters are just being discovered. At the opening of the series, religious zealots are on the verge of reducing the civilizations of Arqonias to dark superstition, and only the kingdom of Northem stands as a beacon of reason against them.

Viviane Rose has lived with auditory hallucinations all her life. Despite this, she has a good job as the manager of the laundry at Vince Malum Residential Living Center, a long-term care facility for the mentally ill. She works there to be near her catatonic mother and amnesiac fiance, and she lives with her grumpy grandfather. Family is her top priority. Viviane has all aspects of her life running like clockwork until one of her hallucinations manifests and begins killing the patients at the Center.

The sorceress and her servants, the shifter wyre, seek to destroy Orielle’s allies in the Wilding. Orielle has gathered Dark Fae and Rhoghieri to defeat them. She rides with the Dark Fae Lord Skull and Lady Bone.

How do you carry on when life has taken everything? When death has touched you, so personally, so deeply, so powerfully. How do you carry on, when the future has been stolen by the birdsong? Nothing is as it seems in this nightmare world.