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FROM HOLLY CHISM: Having a Pint (Liquid Diet Chronicles Book 2)
Even the dead have to make a living…
Meg Turner, vampire accountant and investments advisor, has plenty of living clients, but not many among her fellow undead. That's about to change: she's been invited to a regional business fair for her kind. She'll get to meet and greet more bloodsuckers than she really wanted to (hopefully without having to suck up to any of them). than just the two Vampire cops she helped track down and stake her late, unlamented sire—and hopefully make some friends and answer some questions.
Unfortunately, she's got a Line Progenitor who's begun invading her dreams, and a serial killer stalking her future clients to distract her from growing her business. Throw in a sick roommate not long before the conference starts, a mafia messenger boy left on her front porch, and only one car to juggle all of her responsibilities toward her roommate and unexpected guest. And then on top of that, she has the business fair over an hour away that features vampire karaoke, nosy, pushy elder bloodsuckers, and one particular elder who's friends with her unwelcome dream guest. Seriously, it's enough to drive her to drink something other than coffee or blood.
Just why did she think this whole conference thing sounded like a good idea, again?
BY MAX BRAND, WITH INTRODUCTION BY D. JASON FLEMING: The Cross Brand (Annotated): The classic pulp western
Jack Bristol did shoot the sheriff, and then took his horse and ran a thousand miles, thinking he would be condemned a murderer for defending himself. Then he met old Hank Sherry, who greeted him by burning a cross into his forehead without any explanation of why. Escaping the crazy old man, riding into Culver Valley gave him a hint: everybody who saw the cross thought he was Sherry's son — and should be hanged! How could Bristol escape the respectable citizens of the Valley, who wanted him dead, and yet win the heart of the girl who knew, somehow, that he was innocent?
- This iktaPOP Media edition includes a new introduction giving the novel genre and historical context.
FROM MEL DUNAY: Wolf's Trail (Hunter Healer King Book 1
The name's Chloe Fortebat, and I am in trouble. I left my father's ranch on the plains to come to the Old World: a place of airships, steampower, and monsters nobody talks about. Now I'm dodging giant werewolves with fangs the size of my knife, and the hunters crazy enough to go after them. The most dangerous of these doesn't look the part: a quiet, sharp-dressed medical man with a tired face….
My name is Dr. Maxim os Storm, and I hunt the beasts that haunt the night. The leader of this pack of werewolves has set his mark on Miss Fortebat, but this brave lady would rather fight him than let him make her his tool. As far as I am concerned, that makes her my ally. My only chance of curing her lies with an ancient machine, hidden by my people in the caves beneath Wolf Island. We must keep that artifact out of the werewolf's grasp at all costs, for he would put it to a terrible use….
FROM DALE COZORT: There Will Always Be An England
In the Alternate History novel, two weeks after the D-Day landings, 1944 Britain disappears, replaced by a version of Britain from the distant past, before modern humans made it to Europe. Billy Chandler, like all Allied soldiers in the Normandy bridgehead is suddenly in a desperate situation, cut off from British-based air support, reinforcements and supplies. Meanwhile, deep in the past, 1944 Britain is in its own fight for survival, isolated in a time when Neanderthals rule Europe and no humans have reached the Americas and struggling to feed itself.
The Allies in Normandy struggle to hold out against increasingly powerful German attacks, running low on food and ammunition. Meanwhile, 1944 Britain struggles to survive, a modern nation in a Stone Age world.
FROM SARAH A. HOYT, STILL ON SALE FOR 99C: Darkship Revenge (Darkship Thieves Book 5)
The World Can't Be Made Safe….
But it doesn't mean Athena Hera Sinistra isn't ready to try. Flying back to Earth Orbit from her asteroid home, leaving behind unresolved questions and turmoil, Athena becomes a new mother in orbit.
As is perhaps fitting, her daughter is born during battle with an unknown foe.
A battle that ends with Kit – Athena's husband – missing, and Athena's ship damaged.
So Athena names her daughter Eris, and goes to war.
What follows is a non-stop fight by a very angry mother, who wishes to make the world(s) safe for her newborn daughter, and other children too.
When the adventure is over, it is just the start of another, where children will be rescued, old tyrants brought to justice, and freedom restored.
If it can be.
FROM AURORA DAWN: Hallowing Eve: A Billionaire Boss Romance
Billionaire boss Lucas Danvers keeps his assistant, Evelyn Fontana, very close and very busy. He values her efficiency and intelligence and needs it available to him at all times. It certainly isn't because he's in love with her and wants to keep her away from other men. It's simply a question of respecting her abilities.
That is, until she breaks their tradition of couples' costumes for the company Halloween party, for which she is solely responsible. When she shows up to the shindig as Eve to his Executive Vice-President Nick Wilbright's Adam, he has no choice but to disrupt their Edenic date plans dressed as Lucifer. Even if he wants to change the traditional story just a bit.
Nick Wilbright's been in love with his best friend since college, but Lucas' procession of supermodels, starlets, and superhot women of all sorts have kept him from making his feelings known. Not to mention that it's obvious he's in love with his assistant. Then Evelyn comes to him with a proposition: attend the company Halloween party with her, in matching costumes meant to provoke Lucas to finally pick one of them. Or both.
Will Lucas re-enact the scene in the Garden, or can he tempt both Adam and Eve into sin?
FROM LEIGH KIMMEL: Phoenix Dreams
In Greek myth, the phoenix is a bird that rises from its own ashes. Growing up in the city named for it, Toni knew the story well, and being a gamer made her used to death being negotiable.
During a visit to her grandfather's ranch, she discovered a cache of books and videos from the lost golden age of space travel. Entranced by the enthusiasm of Roger Chaffee for his upcoming spaceflight, she was shocked and angered to learn the disaster that happened only days after his interview.
When she expressed her desire to get him his spaceflight, her family's anger came as an even bigger shock. But she refused to forget, no matter how hard her parents tried to distract her, to prevent her from researching online.
Her determination would lead her along strange paths that would end in a desperate cross-country chase and the realization of a dream decades deferred.
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: Dance
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