A collection of out-of-this-world short stories that ring true in mortal hearts.
Reality As We Know It: Where otherworldly magic fails, is Row’s friendship enough to mend Singer’s grieving heart?
About the Authors:
Jodi L. Milner lives among the most epic vistas of the Rocky Mountains in
Utah and uses them for inspiration when writing fantasy. When not shepherding
her children, she dreams of magic and getting a good night's sleep. She's
published fiction and poetry in the online literary magazine Soft Whispers.
Timothy Vincent splits his time between his home in Kentucky and his work
in Nanjing, China. A published writer and scholar, he teaches for an American
Overseas program. His previous creative writing publications include: “Prince
of the Blue Castle” (The Bacon Review 2013); “Star-Crossed” (Winner,
Terri Ann Armstrong Short Story Contest, Suspense Magazine, 2012); “The
Blanket” and “Standing on the Doorstep with Borges” (The WriteRoom Literary
Magazine). He was a top 25 finalist in Glimmer Train’s new writer contest
in 2010.
Elise Stephens illustrated and wrote her own storybooks from an early age,
binding them with staples, and displaying them to a captive audience of family
and friends. She thanks her mother for teaching her the confidence to perform,
and thanks her father for reading books out loud to her. She received the
Eugene Van Buren Prize for Fiction in 2007 and was a quarter-finalist for the
2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. She has published two novels. Moonlight
and Oranges (2011) and Forecast (2013). She lives with her husband
and son in Seattle where she loves to paint, sing, see live theater, dance in
the rain, and eat tiramisu in generous proportions.
Thaxson Patterson II is a 30-something, single, African American
writer, living
in Denver, Colorado. He is the child of an Air Force retiree and loving mother
who’s wild about superheroes and fantasy literature. He graduated from the
University of Denver in 2003 with a degree in Electronic Media Art Design. His
lifelong obsession with a variety of literary genres including Lovecraftian
horror, Stephen King supernatural tales, and the heroic myths from antiquity
and Jack Kirby fueled his passion for art design. His family has been a
constant thorn of encouragement in his side. Writing has been an ongoing
journey full of creativity, joy, and tears spanning several years.
Scott E. Tarbet is the author of "A Midsummer Night’s Steampunk"
from Xchyler Publishing; "Tombstone", in the paranormal anthology
"Shades & Shadows"; "Ganesh", in the Steampunk
anthology "Terra Mechanica". He writes in several speculative fiction
genres, sings opera, and was married in full Elizabethan regalia. He loves
Steampunk waltzes, cosplay conventions of all flavors, and slow-smokes
thousands of pounds of authentic Texas-style barbeque. An avid skier, hiker,
golfer, and tandem kayaker, he makes his home in the mountains of Utah. Follow
Scott E. Tarbet online at http://scotttarbet.timp.net/ or on
Twitter @SETarbet.
F.M. Longo spent most of his career as a software designer and consultant.
An accomplished
musician, he played professionally with several jazz greats,
and he has won awards for his photography. He now has his own boutique
publicity agency, and spends most of his time writing press releases, designing
print ads, and producing radio spots. He is also the co-editor of the regional
newsletter for a large non-profit organization. Longo lives in a small rural
town in Western Connecticut.
Ginger Mann is a poet, musician, and digital security engineer. If you
can't find her doing those things, look for a woman chasing around her small
children with a camera. A Texas artist, she enjoys writing for other Texans.
Her song, "River Night", premiered on October 12, 2013 in North Austin.
During that same weekend, her first short story, "China Doll," began
selling on Amazon.com.
She is also a key writer, and digital security adviser, for
"Think Before You Click," the Cyber-Safety campaign of legal counsel,
Rick Mann. Ginger lives with her family in the Austin, Texas area.
J.R. Potter has succeeded in the great dream of never growing up. He
writesfor young readers, and
those like him who don’t want to give up on magic.
He like dinosaurs who can speak with polished accents, who wear vest coats and
carry robotic briefcases; he likes fearless young girls with mechanical arms
who risk everything for love and honor and a glimpse of the world above the
clouds; he like to rewrite and re-imagine the past because it feels both old
and new all at once, and well, the victors of history have been doing it for
years.
Potter’s world is equal parts fantasy, obsession, and
transformation. He feels he has been lucky to bring this world to life through
publication in The Portland Review, through winning short story
competitions in the realms of Horror and Fantasy, and through a continued bond
with his faithful publisher Xchyler Publishing who truly lives up to their
motto “enhancing lives one book at a time." He invites readers to “come
fly with me inside a WWII robot, or step out on the wings of a pneumatic
‘Whirly-Bird’ in my upcoming novel Pneumatica: Adventures in Steampunk.
Together I know we will find some magic.”
Danielle E. Shipley's first novelettes told the everyday misadventures of wacky
kids like herself. Or so she thought. Unbeknownst to them all, half of her
characters were actually closeted elves, dwarves, fairies, or some combination
thereof. When it all came to light, Danielle did the sensible thing: Packed up
and moved to Fantasy Land, where daily rent is the low, low price of her heart,
soul, blood, sweat, tears, firstborn child, sanity, and words; lots of them.
She's also been known to spend short bursts of time in the
real-life Chicago area with the parents who home schooled her and the two
little sisters who keep her humble. When she's not living the highs and lows of
writing, publishing, and all that authorial jazz, she's probably blogging about
it at
EverOnWord.wordpress.com.
TC Phillips hails from tropical central Queensland in Australia, where
he currently lives with his
loving wife, three young children, a spoilt cat,
and an overactive imagination. An avid reader from a young age, he has held a
long standing attraction for the written word and is excited to able to make
his own contributions to the vibrant and ever shifting world of storytelling.
Holding degrees in both Theatre Studies and Education, he is also currently
completing his Master of Arts (writing) through Swinburne University of
Technology.
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