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Diary of a Mad Scientist Garden Gnome

BEWARE THE SOCK MONKEY. “In a world where monsters and fairies roam the backyard, one gnome seeks to save his true love from an experiment gone terribly awry! You will find within the pages of this book the diary entries of one Dr. Harry Gnome, mad scientist. Here there be sock monkeys. You have been warned.” One crazy spring,…

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Patchwork Poetry and Other Gibberish by the Saturday Songwriters

In March 2020, the world shut down. That same month, a few thousand Snow Patrol fans from around the globe met Gary Lightbody online to write songs. Together they created 13 songs in 12 weeks, and a fabulous 5-song EP–The Fireside Sessions by Snow Patrol and the Saturday Songwriters–was born. Connections were made during that time. Friendships developed. Long…

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Haven, Kansas

Never reap a harvest sown with blood. 150 years ago, in Haven, Kansas, a witch was burned at the stake. This October, in Haven, Kansas, a boy plays a prank on his big sister. Suddenly, crows fill the skies, a female scarecrow plagues the town, and teenagers are dying left and right. Amidst the violence, strange things keep happening….

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Decision Points

Life is full of decision points – those key moments when what we decide can change everything for better or for worse. These 20 tales describe such instances in young people’s lives, ranging from tragic to triumphant, from horror to fantasy to science fiction. Written by authors new and old, those known for Young Adult writing and those known…

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Happily Ever After

Once Upon A Time… …in the faraway land of Story, a Hugo-winning Editor realized that no one had collected together the fairy tales of the age, and that doorstopthick anthologies of modern fairy tales were sorely lacking… And so the Editor ventured forth, wandering the land of Story from shore to shore, climbing massive mountains of books and delving…

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Twice Upon A Time: Fairytale, Folklore, & Myth Reimagined & Remastered

Fairytales don’t always happen once upon a time. Fables don’t always have a happy ending. Sometimes the stories we love are too dark for nightmares. What if waking Sleeping Beauty was the worse thing the Prince could have done? What if Rapunzel wasn’t in that tower for her own protection—but for everyone else’s? Assembled by The Bearded Scribe Press,…

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Love is Stronger Than Time

An anthology of sci-fi short stories about love through time… Fourteen visionary stories from every corner of the world, to examine in depth a subject underlying any literary work: the relationship between love and time. Fourteen tales of the purest science fiction, original works from the pens of the genre’s most influential indie authors, that speak of dreams and…

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Artifice & Craft

Would you kill for your art? Would it kill for you? A painter who kills with blood-tinged pigment. A tattoo artist with a dark past who treats with demons. A sculptor on Venus who carves his life’s history into ice at the cost of his sanity. A ceramic vase that might avenge the life of a murder victim. A…

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Water Faeries (A Procession of Faeries 4)

Jump into the waves, and enter the world of Faerie! On a rock by the shore sits a mermaid fair Dreaming of her lost lover as she combs her hair Kelpies, and selkies, and the great snakes of the sea All stop and listen as she sings of a love never to be For the sailor she saved from…

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The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie

Luckily for humanity, scientist Marie Curie applied her brilliant mind and indomitable spirit to expanding the frontiers of science, but what if she had instead drifted toward the darkness? At the cusp of between child- and adulthood, at the crossroads between science and superstition, a teen Marie Curie faces the factual and the fantastic in this fabulous collection of…

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