Unique, Different, Found: The Prologue

Long before the brave Celina every found out about her fate and destiny, she was a young seven year old girl who was different from the start. But circumstances demanded other things, and thus these circumstances demanded her to be unique. But when will she ever be found?
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Curse of the Death Maiden: Book One - My Thoughts of You

This is death, I thought, but I do not want to go. I remember thinking. Sinking down to the ocean floor, I could feel my thoughts slipping, lungs filling with the sting of salted water as it took me, I drowned… I died. I became death; I became a slave to the darkness. I became a victim to my own pride, a pirate to my own ungodly misdeeds…My thoughts of you never relenting…Welcome to the new fantasy, sci-fi and supernatural fiction E-Zine Bad Moon #1 - New Moon. We bring you fascinating tales to enthral and amuse you every full moon that rises, writing them in between the changing phases in a flash of inspiration or the attempt to raise mild amusement, at least.We have stories of abstract futures and mysterious pasts, yet all pertinent to today. We will meet characters from a far future Tokyo, a near future Europe, some spectral apparitions who haunt unexpected places, reimagined Grimm Tales, amongst other mangled fairytales, myths, parables, legends and steampunk fun.Enjoy the rocking ride, and hold on tight!
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Forgotten, Saved, Loved

Remember the guardian who always made people laugh? Remember the guardian who always tried to help? Remember the guardian who had a backstory? Do you? Do you remember the guardian that ran into the forest and never returned? That guardian was forgotten, or so he thought. Did he escape? No one knows. Only the ones he loves the most. Was he loved back? Everyone knows the answer to that. Do you? This story, is a story of a guardian who was forgotten, escaped and loved...
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Jupiter 39: Hegemone

Issue 39 of Jupiter Science Fiction magazine featuring brilliant new stories from Simon Fay, J. Rohr, Robert Thayer, Graham Keeler, Tyler Winstead and Steve McGarrity. Poems by Alessio Zanelli and a wonderful cover by Daniel Bristow-Bailey.After the interest created by his recently published ebook The Onion Peeler,as promised is the first of two volumes of what the author describes as street poetry,after the style of that great Australian Poet Banjo Paterson. Most of these poems are in a humerous vein and a number are love letters to his beloved City of Nottingham and its people,the remaining poems are a reflection of the darker side of life,human nature,and various events.
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What Will Be...

After over-hearing news from some fellow pack members, werewolf Roxy makes a life changing decision. What will the repercussions of her actions be? Will she accept her fate or will she try and create her own?Who would ever have imagined that being a bicycle courier could be so exciting, dangerous and demanding? Ziggy Two Step is oblivious to most of what is happening around him even though he is often the cause of it. Follow Ziggy Two Step, courier extraordinaire, as he delivers urgent packages throughout Riverton.(NOTE: There may be a problem with the Oct 31/2012 revision ... for a more readable version, pick the version before that one. Sorry for the inconvenience)Please check out my other FREE stories as well.
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The Beauty the Hunter and the Hunted

Lance Ragatti has a score to settle. Two centuries ago werewolves killed his bride. Two centuries of waiting and searching for Lilith to be reborn has left Lance more than a little aggressive towards the enemy. Not to mention he's a hungry vampire, because part of his marriage oath to Lilith was that he would never partake of the blood of another, but that's all history now that he's found her, right? Wrong! Lilith has been reborn, but she's working for the enemy! Lilith is a psychic, with what she considers to be lame abilities, but the Lingstons pay her the big bucks to find vampires for them. It leaves her isolated, but that's easily solved: She can talk to animals. What's wrong with a little blood money? After all it's not like vampires are human! There's definitely something different about Lance Ragatti, but Lilith can't quite put her finger on it. He's a vampire, better dead than alive, but he's also sexy and mysterious! What's a girl to do when her view of the world is challenged? Deny everything of course! Will Lance be able to make Lilith see the danger she's in before it's too late?
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And the Mountain Burns

Poems about and inspired by nature.EVER BEEN DUMPED!?!After being brutally ditched by his girlfriend, high school senior Seth decides to win back ex Lysandra by reinventing himself into the man he has always wanted to be by fulfilling his childhood dreams and wishes. With the assistance of his, well, quirky best friend Russ and his platonic guy-girlfriend, Anna, his senior year becomes one of adventure and self-realization in this hilarious original screenplay by J. Richard Singleton.
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Mysterious Girlfriend

Small-town schoolboy Murray Leinster, fourteen going on ten, finds his life revolutionised when he falls in love with new transfer student, Eve Chandler. The resolute girl takes him by the hand and leads him into a world right on his own door-step that he never dreamed existed―A nine-year-old crime lord, an enchanted Garden of Cats, and a pair of very strange Japanese girls are just some of the wonders that await him.The town is struck by a series of sexual assaults, and these attacks are somehow connected with the Asteroid Belt Mining Project (which may or may not be a colossal hoax) and a mysterious green cloud with something very nasty lurking inside it. Super-spy Mark Hunter and Dodo Dupont, his TV psychologist associate, arrive on the scene to investigate.As cosmic events draw ever closer to one small town and one small boy, many questions need to be answered: What is the secret of the ruined abbey in the woods? Why does Eve Chandler have a wristwatch communicator? Why...
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The Sapphire Flute: Book 1 of The Wolfchild Saga

In an unraveling world, three women begin their quests: Ember, to understand the magic growing within her; Kayla, to rise above the caste oppressing her family; C’Tan, for freedom from her evil master. One will discover she is the first white mage born in three millennia, another will become guardian to a keystone, the sapphire flute, and through it all the third will try to destroy them both.It has been 3,000 years since a white mage has been seen upon Rasann.In the midst of a volcanic eruption miles outside of her village, Ember discovers she can see magic and change the appearance of things at will. Against her mother's wishes, she leaves for the mage trials only to be kidnapped before arriving. In trying to escape, she discovers she has inherited her father's secret - a secret that places her in direct conflict with her father's greatest enemy.At the same time, Kayla is given guardianship of the sapphire flute and told not to play it. The evil mage C'Tan has been searching for it for decades and the sound alone is enough to call her. For the flute to be truly safe, Kayla must find its birthplace in the mountains high above Javak. The girls' paths are set on a collision course...a course that C'Tan is determined to prevent at all costs.
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Unique, Different, Found

“We're free. I'm free. Never again will we have to face the Moonlight pack.” Beaten, punched, slapped, kicked, tortured. That was Celina’s life with the pack who was supposed to take care of her. She was nothing but their slave. And then one day, she decided that it had to stop. She would run away. And she did. And when she shifted, little did Celina know that she was the last pure white wolf in the world. Or that she was special. She just knew she was different. She ran for days, until she got to the territory of the Nightfall Pack. She was taken to see their alpha, and for reasons she couldn’t understand, sparks just appeared when their fingers touched. Axel was everything the alpha of her old pack was not. He was strong, powerful, demanding. And apparently, he was the only pitch black wolf left in the world. And he was going to take what’s his: his mate, who happened to be the rogue Celina. Running away seemed to be the best decision she ever made, but will a destiny that was foretold long before she was born rip her apart about things in her past? Or will she show everyone she’s not the weak girl her old pack made her to be?
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Other Things Being Equal

OA reissue of Emma Wolf's 1892 novel, which boldly interrogates the implications of Jewish-Christian marriage and examines the role of the new woman within the traditions of the Jewish home. The novel's protagonist, Ruth Levice, is a young intellectual from an upper-class Jewish family.
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Too Far

One night. One date. What have you got to lose?Jack Harper isn't a bad man, but he's stuck in a loveless marriage with a mediocre job just trying to keep sober. The only good thing in his life is his son. When an old college friend introduces him to a new extramarital dating website, he tentatively reaches out to find a distraction from his misery. But when he goes to meet up with his steamy online date, he quickly realises it was a dire choice.Soon, Jack finds himself desperately trying to prove his innocence for crimes he did not commit, and the life he once had - unhappy as it was - is nothing but a dream. Now, he's living his worst nightmare. . .As gripping as TM Logan's Lies and as compulsive as Gillian McAllister's Anything You Do Say, this intense psychological thriller is packed with shocking twists and turns and plays with a basic anxiety we all harbour: What if one reckless decision could ruin your life forever?'The...
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The Sapphire Flute

It has been 3,000 years since a white mage has been seen upon Rasann.In the midst of a volcanic eruption miles outside of her village, Ember discovers she can see magic and change the appearance of things at will. Against her mother's wishes, she leaves for the mage trials only to be kidnapped before arriving. In trying to escape, she discovers she has inherited her father's secret - a secret that places her in direct conflict with her father's greatest enemy.At the same time, Kayla is given guardianship of the sapphire flute and told not to play it. The evil mage C'Tan has been searching for it for decades and the sound alone is enough to call her. For the flute to be truly safe, Kayla must find its birthplace in the mountains high above Javak. The girls' paths are set on a collision course...a course that C'Tan is determined to prevent at all costs.
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