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The Resolution
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Ron Lee is known for his New Year’s resolutions, but as midnight approaches on New Year’s Eve, 2014, he’s coming up dry. Then, in a burst of alcohol-infused genius, it comes to him: a way to satisfy both his compulsion to keep resolutions and his...
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Battling Fate
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For a decade, Mary’s world has revolved around Ryan. Her high school sweetheart. Her fiancé and the love of her life. Their love is the foundation upon which she has built every dream. But in a single shattering moment, Ryan reveals he’s met...
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The Ancestors
From the Beginning
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A woman’s life often follows the timeless arc of the goddess: the maiden, the mother, and the crone—youthful aspirations, grounded by motherhood, then shaped into a wellspring of wisdom. This wisdom lives on through generations, carried in...
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The Covering
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Dan had a rough upbringing and continues to lie, steal, and cheat in adulthood, even when married to Sue, a pastor’s daughter. Sue, who married Dan out of loneliness, now finds herself at his mercy, lonely as ever. When her friend, Stephanie,...
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The Farthest
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In a distant solar system, a dying red dwarf star has locked its first planet in a constantly degrading orbit. Zetara Prime exists in eternal shadow by its home star forcing the technologically advanced Zetarans to live underground in the...
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Impossible to Figure
Stories to Challenge a Mind, Amuse a Few, and Send a Shiver Down the Spine of Others
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Sick of the lies? Why not laugh at the truth. ANNIE M delivers four fictional stories wrapped in a raw reality, sewn together with threads of humour. This is a dark comedy—more the antithesis of misogyny... and then some [insert sinister snicker...
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Laika's Ghost
Stories by Karl Schroeder
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Ukrainian nuclear engineer Gennady Malianov would rather camp in the ruins of Chornobyl or explore abandoned anthrax factories than talk to another human being. Painfully shy as he is, he finds it soothing dismantling the abandoned...
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Hunted By Fire
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Lena can feel something heating up inside her. One morning on her way to work, Lena stops in at her usual café, and a chance encounter with a particularly rude customer makes her blow the place to ashes. Literally. Lightbulbs explode overhead and...
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The Wheel
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History is more than dates and events on a timeline, more than a handful of significant people who have an impact. It is comprised of the stories of individuals who are often forgotten and full of truths too often elided—until one begins to look...
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John Cabot - Commander
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John Cabot — builder of canals and bridges, devoted husband, and father of three — dreams of wealth and status for his family. But his aspirations leave him overextended, pursued by merciless creditors, and forced to flee Venice with his family....
