Dealings with Joe
Genre: Urban Fantasy Short Story.
Scott has no idea how to solve any of the numerous problems filling his life. Then he meets Joe who offers a unique solution. He’s not certain Joe can help because the offer sounds a little too good to be true.
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Compulsive Directive
Genre: Post Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Short Story.
Sophie is one of the lucky twenty thousand humans rescued from Earth when the Sargaxen arrive through a rift. She doesn’t feel lucky. She wants her family, her friends and her world. The only way she can hope to regain any of these things is to return to Earth with the people determined to fight the Sargaxen, a seemingly unbeatable foe.
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Eternally Late
Genre: Urban Fantasy Short Story.
Tony is always late and his family have all kinds of tricks to keep him on time. But there are some things that just have to be done, no matter how late they make you or how dangerous they are.
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Fairytales Retold: Aschenputtel (Cinderella)
Genre: Fairytales Retold Short Story.
When Aschenputtel’s mother dies, her father marries a woman with two daughters of her own. They treat her like a servant and she’s left to sleep on the hearth amongst the ashes, her only friend a little bird that nests in the hazel tree, which grew at her mother’s grave. When the king throws a feast to find his son a bride, Aschenputtel begs to attend. Her family answers her with taunts and impossible tasks. She’s determined to complete them so she can attend the feast.
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Fairytales Retold: Beauty And The Beast
Genre: Fairytales Retold Short Story.
Unable to believe her family’s fortunes have changed, Belle asks her father to bring her a rose when he returns home. The rose brings more troubles to their family. The beast it belonged to demands either her father’s life or one of his daughters. Belle can’t let her father die, but she’s terrified of facing the beast.
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Fairytales Retold: Sleeping Beauty
Genre: Fairytales Retold Short Story.
While searching for adventure, Prince Philip stumbles across a castle surrounded by an impenetrable thorny hedge. He learns it’s the home of Briar Rose, a princess cursed to sleep for a hundred years. The curse can only be broken by true love’s kiss. He fears it might be an impossible curse to break and yet he’s compelled to attempt it anyway.
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Fairytales Retold: Snow-White And Rose-Red
Genre: Fairytales Retold Short Story.
Snow-White and Rose-Red live with their widowed mother in a cottage in the middle of a forest. One winter’s night a bear knocks on their door wanting to come in and warm himself at their fire.
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Fairytales Retold: The Death Of Koshchei The Deathless
Genre: Fairytales Retold Short Story.
When Koshchei escapes, Prince Ivan has to find a way to outwit him or never see the one he loves again. How can he outwit a sorcerer who has managed to trick Baba Yaga, a witch so few have fooled?
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Fairytales Retold: The Light Princess
Genre: Fairytales Retold Short Story.
In a quest to find a bride, Prince Ruairidh stumbles upon The Light Princess, a completely inappropriate bride with an unbreakable spell upon her. He hears rumours that it was her aunt, Princess Makemnoit, who put the spell on her, but no one knows for certain. The Light Princess would make no one a suitable bride, least of all a prince. But when she’s in the lake there’s something about her that intrigues Prince Ruairidh and he can’t help wanting to spend more time with her.
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Fairytales Retold: The Frog Prince
Genre: Fairytales Retold Short Story.
Escaping insincere condolences, Calandra wanders far from home and comes across a spring. Losing her golden ball in the spring she fears it’s lost forever. A frog fetches it for her in exchange for a promise she’s forced to keep.
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Fairytales Retold: The Golden Bird
Genre: Fairytales Retold Short Story.
As the head gardener, Lenard’s father must find out who is stealing the fruit from the king’s golden apple tree. Neither of his older brothers have been able to discover the culprit and Lenard wants his chance to prove himself. Instead his family continue to treat him like the sickly child he once was. Someone needs to solve the mystery because no matter how fair and just a king is, it’s never good to fail them.
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Fairytales Retold: The Twelve Brothers
Genre: Fairytales Retold Short Story.
When Princess Ilsa discovers that she has twelve older brothers she is determined to meet them. Their father has declared they should die and, unknowingly, Ilsa places them in mortal danger by seeking them out.
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Fairytales Retold Double Editions
Fairytales Retold Double Edition Snow-White And Rose-Red & The Frog Prince is available at the following retailers:
Fairytales Retold Double Edition Beauty And The Beast & Sleeping Beauty is available at the following retailers:
Fairytales Retold Double Edition Aschenputtel & The Light Princess is available at the following retailers:
Myths And Legends Retold: Princess Ilse, The Giant’s Daughter
Genre: Myths and Legends Retold Short Story (Norse).
Ilse’s father is willing to do anything to keep her from the man she loves. She doesn’t care he’s a mortal. She’s willing to do anything to prevent her father from keeping them apart. Although things aren’t going exactly the way she’d hoped.
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Myths and Legends Retold: Ion, Son Of Apollo
Genre: Myths and Legends Retold Short Story (Greek).
After being abandoned, Ion was raised by a Delphic priestess. He grows up believing Apollo favours him. When he learns Apollo wants him to leave behind the only life he’s ever known, he wishes he could reject the path Apollo has chosen for him. But the gods can be both kind and cruel and he wouldn’t be the only one who suffers. Unknown to Ion, the path Apollo sets him on could uncover secrets from his past. Secrets that if they’d been discovered when he was born would have led to his death.
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Myths And Legends Retold: Sir Gawain And The Maid With The Narrow Sleeves
Genre: Myths And Legends Retold Short Story.
During his journey, Sir Gawain is unable to join a tourney due to more pressing matters. Falsely accused, he’s defended by a young girl sorely in need of help. As a knight he’s sworn to protect the defenceless, but doing so could jeopardise his own affairs.
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This edition contains:
Sir Gawain And The Maid With The Narrow Sleeves
Princess Ilse, The Giant’s Daughter
Ion, Son Of Apollo
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The Brat Next Door
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Short Story
Trying not to be late to school, once again, Taylor almost ignores the noise in the garden shed. Thinking it’s probably Lucas playing a trick on her, even though he’s never played one on her before, she nearly walks away. He’s notorious for them. But what if it isn’t? What if it’s something far more sinister?
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Short Stories In Series
A Realms Of The Fae Short Story: The Sword
This story first appeared in Like A Girl Anthology.
Genre: Young Adult Urban Fantasy.
Ivy, a human living in the realms of the Fae, quit training to be a warrior after being badly injured by wolves attacking her village. Ever since that day she’s been labelled a coward. Now there’s another threat. It looks like war will break out between her village and the Fae. Unless someone does something about it. Ivy doubts she can help since she failed against the wolves, but there’s no way she wants anything to happen to her family.
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Lore Of Inadon: Legend Of The Ancestral King
(Lore related to the Guardians Of The Round Table series.)
When a divine demon visits Marela’s father, her life is changed forever. Only time will tell if those changes are for the better or worse.
Although this book is related to the Guardians Of The Round Table series and contains lore for that series, it can be read as a standalone short story.