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FROM PAM UPHOFF: Out of Contact (Chronicles of the Fall Book 6)
Radmir Gagarin is not an Exec, he just does the job of one. Working for the richest man in the Alliance, Lord Diomid Devi, is not easy, even though he's retired. And it gets a lot harder when the Plague strikes the World Lord Diomid purchased as his personal retirement home. And then the invasion . . .
As the Three Part Alliance crumbles, it's every world for itself, and even a man so rich he can buy an entire parallel Earth to retire on, can find himself in a lot of trouble!
FROM MACKEY CHANDLER, AUDIO BOOK! April
April is an exceptional young lady and something of a snoop. After a chance encounter with a spy, she finds herself involved with political intrigues that stretch her abilities. There is a terrible danger she, and her friends and family, will lose the only home she has ever known, and be forced to live on the slum ball Earth below. It's more than an almost fourteen year old should have to deal with. Fortunately she has a lot of smart friends and allies. It's a good thing because things get very rough and dicey. They challenge the political status quo, and with a small population the only advantage they have in war is a thin technological edge. The entire "April" series is building towards a merge with the future series that starts with "Family Law".
FROM SHANE GRIES: Ashes of Empire: Last World Volume 2
When the royal government of the Interstellar Commonwealth was overthrown, the Imperial Family fled into the forgotten depths of space, seeking a colony that had been abandoned thousands of years ago. After a hasty jump and then five years of grueling sublight travel, the battered fleet enters the system to find a thriving pre-space flight human culture. A culture that remembered nothing of their origins.
Once contact is established, the refugee spacefarers embroil themselves in the politics of the warring nations, using their superior technology to play one side against the other. Imperial Marines in power armor go up against semi-automatic rifles and tanks, winning and losing their lives in a long term plan to turn the world into their new empire. Meanwhile, far above in orbit, the deadly games of the court continue with political intrigue, backstabbing and deadly rebellion.
FROM JAMES TOTTEN: The Old Heads and Drone Drivers: Breaching Ain't Easy (Breaching Ain't Easy! Book 3)
War is hell and getting worse. Russian leaders want payback for losing Poland. New weapons bring new opportunities. Retired Soldiers get called back to serve. Major Brown is right in the middle of it managing the madness. Look out for the dad bods, they have the skills to kill!
FROM MARK BOSSINGHAM: Chasing Naomi (ALLIE SPACE OPERA Book 1)
July 1969. Clive, Iowa, Earth. Sixteen-year-old Allie has a big decision to make: Watch the lunar landing with her mom in their run-down double-wide trailer or boost to the stars aboard a grumpy, sentient deep space exploration vehicle (DSEV-424) buried in her backyard for 5,000 years.
Accompanied by Gem, a dead space captain, now a glitchy hologram, Allie stops on the moon and surprises Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin aboard the Eagle lunar lander. (Neil never mentioned the encounter to Houston).
With Gem as her guide, Allie survives her first space battle and drops Gem off at a military regrow center in the middle of a spaceport casino. The teen's adventure lifts off at a military space academy, where she faces danger, makes friends, battles enemies, and discovers her own surprising abilities.
Along with Rin, Sky, and Gem, Allie sets out on a mission to locate and defeat a rogue fleet led by Naomi, a mad-as-a-hatter warship, all while navigating the complexities of growing up and finding her place in the galaxy.
FROM DAVID COLLINS: Carbon Copy: An AI Doppelgänger Story
Kaylee Green was an Illegal Alien, only not someone who crossed the Rio-Grande to reach the USA. Instead, she had traveled 45.7 light-years to get away from her pursuers.
She is now a recent college graduate and has lived happily with her boyfriend for four years.
Then the police show up asking about a severed hand from a six-year-old cold case. They want to know why her fingerprints and DNA both match the hand.
Her carefully crafted false identity was rapidly falling apart. She wondered what else could go wrong?
The answer was that visitors from 45.7 light-years away were about to arrive.
FROM TOM VEAL: I Went to the Fantasy Fair
In Angland, matter obeys mind. Upon demand, raindrops swerve to avoid drenching pedestrians, walls change from opaque to transparent and back, coaches push themselves forward, quill pens take dictation, and sky-ships sail among the clouds. All that is quite ordinary and dull. Imaginative souls conceive of wondrous mechanical devices: steam locomotives, flying machines, jet engines, radios and a hundred more.
Aethelstan Tiefring has no particular interest in "technofantasy". He has made his career as a renowned art-wright by directing pigments to recreate the images that he sees in his mind's eye. Then his beloved wife succumbs to a mysterious sickness, her body vanishes from its casket, and he is stricken with overpowering melancholy.
His recovery begins when a glorious sunrise inspires him to resume painting and, on the same day, he receives an invitation to cross the Sea of Atlas to deliver a series of lectures to Atlantis's foremost art institute.
He sets out for the New World, traveling in a sky-ship guided by golden swans and accompanied by his beautiful, flirtatious daughter. Lyonessa Tiefring has just turned down a shameful offer from the nephew of a powerful nobleman. She does not know that the disappointed suitor's vengeance pursues her.
The journey will take father and daughter farther than they can imagine: to Atlantis, to the gathering of technofantasy enthusiasts at the Fantasy Fair, and then through death to a universe governed by entirely different natural laws.
FROM SCOTT MCCREA: Finding Bradigan's Mountain: A Mountain Man's Revenge (Bradigan: Mountain Man Book 3)
A brand new Mountain Man adventure from Scott McCrea!
Mountain man Richard Bradigan goes on a deadly cross-country trek to save the girl he loves from his old nemesis, the sadistic Colonel Sauvage. With him are the outrageous Bon Chance Legrand, dime novelist Fred Stryker, and disgraced soldier Captain Burr. But time starts running out for the searchers when they are pursued by some of the most dangerous badmen to ever come out of the West.
One thing is guaranteed – it will all end in blood. But who will live and who will die?
A Mountain Man's Revenge is the pulse-pounding conclusion to the exciting Finding Bradigan's Mountain trilogy.
The Critics Say:
"Well done, Mr. McCrea." – Western author Jeremy Perry
"It's easy to read; fast paced; packed with action; and full of characters you're soon rootin' for, as well as those you can't wait to meet a grizzly end. It's great fun to read." – Western author Andrew Weston
"Scott McCrea's prose is tight and smooth, and delivers a fair number of smiles." -- Evan Lewis, Davy Crockett's Almanack
"Recommended!" -- Jeff Arnold's West
"Looking forward to the next one!" -- Toby Roan, Fifty Westerns From the Fifties Blog
FROM HOLLY CHISM: The Dragon's in the Details
Six stories of dragons hiding in today's world:
A Friend, Indeed--A little girl meets the best friend she could ask for when she finds a dragon sleeping in her wagon.
Tempest--What do you do when you find a dragon in your favorite teacup?
Clowder--These are absolutely not cats, no matter what they look like, and will take offense at your mistake.
Back Yard Birds and Other Things--If the dragon defends your chickens, you invite it to stay.
Houdini--When the pet supplier sends the wrong kind of dragon, the pet store's got a problem.
Hoard--Not every dragon cares for gold, gems, or cash.
FROM DALE COZORT: Snapshot-42 Book One - Stalingrad Run
At the height of World War II, an apparent time anomaly cuts Europe and part of the Middle East off from the rest of the world. Trapped in Northern Iran, with no way to contact the world he knew, United States Army Engineer Jim Edwards is forced to flee from both the Germans and the Soviets. His only companions are a mysterious Russian woman who may be trying to assassinate Stalin, and a man who calls himself "Loki". Is he any more trustworthy than the Norse trickster god he's named after?
In a desperate bid to get to Great Britain, Jim finds himself in a treacherous race across Nazi-occupied Europe. His mission? To prevent the Nazis from overrunning Europe, then sending their war machines against an alternate United States that's still armed with black powder muskets. The freedom of mankind's future may depend on his success.
FROM LEIGH KIMMEL: The Sound of One Child Crying
Who is the child Reza can hear crying every time she goes to the new addition to the Royal Library? Her boss insists there is no child, that it is nothing more than her uncanny sensitivity to the unseen world making a nuisance of itself.
Worse, searching for answers gets her angry rebukes about respect for the dead. The further Reza goes, the more certain she becomes that someone is hiding an ugly secret.
It's a secret that traces back two generations, to a dark period in this land's history. A time most people would prefer to forget, not caring that denial doesn't make a problem go away.
The truth may set you free, but not without a price. And Reza fears that death itself might turn out to be an easier price than the one demanded of her.
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: WORD
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