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FROM SARAH A. HOYT: Barbarella: The Center Cannot Hold.
Having met the Innumerable and joined their cause against the Architects, Barbarella must clandestinely return to the home of the Architects in order to retrieve Vix, left behind when Barbarella was extracted by an agent of the Innumerable. See? We've come full circle! As is often the case, it's not what you see that's the danger, it's what you can't see, and Barbarella sees plenty of that wherever she sees an Architect. And lest we forget, there is the small matter of the Unnamable out there…
FROM J.M. NEY-GRIMM: Illumine Hades (The Hades Cycle Book 7).
Darker than dark, ruinous and ravening, the realm of Hades ravages its lord . . .
As ruler of the damned, Lord Dìs sustains the bounds of hell that prevent its shades from escaping to batten on the living. But the drain on his strength, immense as it is, requires him to steal life from the innocent. When Dìs' wife Persephone insists he refrain from his cruel ritual theft—and he fails—she leaves him.
Alone and broken, Dìs renews his vow to fulfill his duties without the replenishment he craves. But the burdens of judging the newly dead and preserving them from extinction, all while anchoring hell itself, inexorably grind Dìs beneath a crushing weight.
Dìs must learn that merely refraining from evil redeems nothing. Unless he can restore those he destroyed, madness will claim him and the bounds of hell will implode.
Illumine Hades is the concluding tale in the exhilarating Hades Cycle. If you seek heroic sacrifice, redemptive love, and the terror of the ancient gods, you'll love J.M. Ney-Grimm's cathartic finale in which all the series threads weave together toward glory.
FROM LEIGH KIMMEL: The War That Came to Houston.
In the midst of preparations for a critical mission, Leland Andersen can't afford the return of a childhood nightmare. Yet night after night the vision torments him, of an astronaut dying in flames.
Nora McKinzie is a Houston police officer -- and a member of an ancient order founded to fight eldritch entities wherever they might flee. When she receives a warning that a sworn enemy is on the move again, her obligations come into conflict with each other.
Both of them are present when Johnson Space Center comes under attack by terrorists. And they both know that the official explanations don't hold together.
Two people, one deadly secret -- and an enemy from beyond time and space.
A novel of the Grissom timeline.
Previously serialized under the title A Separate War.
FROM ANDREW FOX: The End of Daze
Jacob Zvi has turned his back on everything he was taught to value. His faith, his family, his citizenship, and even his morals. Yet seemingly divine fate introduces Jacob to the struggling members of an Orthodox congregation in the middle of a ghetto in New Orleans while terrorists explode a purloined Soviet nuclear artillery shell atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
FROM MARY CATELLI: Curses And Wonders.
A collection of tales of wonder and magic.
A prince sets out to win his way to the dragon's lair.
A woman fights a curse on her lands.
A man returns to his castle, bringing a magical sword, and worse things.
And more tales.
BY FRANK HOOD: A Geek's Progress: Navigating a Software Career from the 80s to the 20s
This is what I call my work biography. It's about how to survive in the business world and, inevitably also about the changes in technology that I went through in 40 years of software development from punch cards to Artificial Intelligence. If you're young and reading this, I hope it shows you what to expect--not how to climb the corporate ladder, but how to contribute to making things people want while making life better for you, your family, your fellow employees, and the company you work for--whether they want you to or not. If you're farther along in your career and reading this, I hope you nod in recognition at many of the things I've been through.
FROM MARY CATELLI: Madeleine and the Mists.
Enchanted pools, shadowy dragons, wolves that spring from the mists and vanish into them again, paths that are longer, or shorter, than they should be, given where they went. . . the Misty Hills were filled with marvels.
Madeleine still left the hills, years ago, to marry against her father's will. If her husband's family is less than welcoming, she still is glad she married him, and they have a son, two years old.
But her husband's overlord has fallen afoul of the king. And all his men fall with him, including her husband.
She sets out, to seek the queen and try to bypass the king -- and the Misty Hills.
Some things are not so easily evaded.
FROM KAREN MYERS: Mistress of Animals: A Lost Wizard's Tale.
AN ERRANT CHILD WITH DISASTROUS POWERS AND NO ONE TO STAND IN HER WAY.
Penrys, the wizard with a chain and an unknown past, is drafted to find out what has happened to an entire clan of the nomadic Zannib. Nothing but their empty tents remain, abandoned on the autumn steppe with their herds.
This wasn't a detour she'd planned on making, but there's little choice. Winter is coming, and hundreds are missing.
The locals don't trust her, but that's nothing new. The question is, can she trust herself, when she discovers what her life might have been? Assuming, of course, that the price of so many dead was worth paying for it.
FROM LINDSEY PETERSEN: To Find a Monster (The Reluctant Chrononaut Adventures Book 2)
Kate Thomason, twenty-first century healer, is snatched from an eight-handed clone massage in twenty-ninety-seven by H. G. Wells' time machine to awaken in Wells' bedroom in eighteen-ninety-seven, her modesty guarded only by a sheer peignoir. Whatever could be Wells' plan for her? He can't send her back; entrapped in a world wholly alien to her, how shall she survive? She can think of only one asset – in a Victorian world of surging libidos she's a beautiful woman with a 'pragmatic' take on sex. In any era that will get a woman far.
Wells presents her at dinner to playwright Oscar Wilde, newspaperman Frank Harris, Professor Aronnax and others. Kate's scandalous bodice isn't the only thing on the guests' minds that evening; Professor Aronnax proposes taking the Nautilus to hunt for the Loch Ness Monster.
Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and 'Nother Mike.
So what's a vignette? You might know them as flash fiction, or even just sketches. We will provide a prompt each Sunday that you can use directly (including it in your work) or just as an inspiration. You, in turn, will write about 50 words (yes, we are going for short shorts! Not even a Drabble 100 words, just half that!). Then post it! For an additional challenge, you can aim to make it exactly 50 words, if you like.
We recommend that if you have an original vignette, you post that as a new reply. If you are commenting on someone's vignette, then post that as a reply to the vignette. Comments — this is writing practice, so comments should be aimed at helping someone be a better writer, not at crushing them. And since these are likely to be drafts, don't jump up and down too hard on typos and grammar.
If you have questions, feel free to ask.
Your writing prompt this week is: ACTOR
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