Test Amongst the Shadows
Reading Time: 8 minutesThe hardest working mage who ever lived will do anything to pass his English exam.
Reading Time: 8 minutesThe hardest working mage who ever lived will do anything to pass his English exam.
Reading Time: 19 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesOne can spend an entire lifetime searching for something, only to find it lies just beyond your grasp – and your lifetime has vanished in the blink of an eye.
Reading Time: 13 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list is all about romance — romance with dragons, romance with werewolves, romance with aliens, and romance with vampires.
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Reading Time: 11 minutesWhat happens below decks, stays below decks in this horror/humor mashup of the biblical account of Noah’s ark and the doomed voyage of the Demeter in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Reading Time: 4 minutesRosie O’Connell smelled only dust where once there had been life.
Reading Time: 5 minutesShe was eight when her body rotted away. A virus. They were able to save her brain, and for the last ten years she’s been living inside an eight-year-old android body.
Reading Time: 15 minutesThe creatures were out there, somewhere, waiting for him. But could one stranded human defeat hundreds of hungry aliens?
Reading Time: 18 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesJenny hangs the traps every sunset. She measures the string against her arm and wraps it twice around each jar tied with a double knot. She hangs them from the strongest branches of the big dead oak on Hangman’s Hill.
Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has evil space aliens, kick-ass monster hunters, witches galore, and hot Christmas elf action.
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Reading Time: 6 minutesA money-grubbing politician usurps the limited resources of the town they just burned to the ground. The Boatmen has another idea.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere is something special about desert at night: A dark-grey sea of emptiness stretched before us, with nothing but sand dunes and tall, sharp rocks for miles around. If we watched closely, we’d see it was crawling with life, with snakes, scorpions, and other little nightmares, but I kept my eyes on the road, and the hitchhiker – Joey – stared at the sky.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe firstborn of every family is called up to service, in the name of protecting the grace and honour of this Unified Earth.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if aliens gassed a bunch of passengers on a plane?
Reading Time: 15 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 6 minutesThe winners for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book were announced at DisCon III, the 79th World Science Fiction Convention, on December 18th, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe oldest mask shop in Venice has a mask for everything, and the owner will take whatever you have to offer.
Reading Time: 9 minutesThe debut episode of The Wheel of Time has some strong characters and thrilling imagery, though clumsy storytelling and some awkward tonal choices overall results in this series stumbling out of the gate. Reliance, perhaps overly so, on aging fantasy-genre tropes in order to appeal to a mass-audience leaves the series still searching for its own identity.
Reading Time: 14 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has space battles, sexy aliens, dragons, magic, werewolves, and a demon hunter.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesShe flails her arms and legs against the straps that bind her to a wooden chair in the middle of the boutique.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re looking for a delicious jolt of freakiness to get you through the holiday season, you can do a lot worse than Netflix’s Brand New Cherry Flavor
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if an ancient god had a dire warning for you?
Reading Time: 4 minutesHis mother-in-law told him he’d be rewarded for hurting her daughter. He thought she meant she was happy that she was gone. Too late, he realized he was wrong in his interpretation of reward.
Reading Time: 25 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen I mentioned the Kintoc spring tale of relocating entire lakes using braided ropes, a herd of elk and sub-zero temperatures, I didn’t consider that I might soon be living all of it.
Reading Time: 16 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has vampires, dwarves, magic, dragons, mermaids, fae, space battles, and post-apocalyptic survival.
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Reading Time: 18 minutesWhen Gordon finally gives in and gets fitted for Carbon 14 contact lenses, he has to learn how to see the world differently.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA century ago, a question blossomed in our awareness that has tormented each subsequent generation’s brightest scientific minds. Since other intelligent life must be out there in a universe so vast, why haven’t they found us yet?
Reading Time: 13 minutesIt takes place in a futuristic Rio-São Paulo megalopolis, where old and sick people die and nobody cares. Nobody except the protagonist.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if a horror author’s notebook had magical powers?
Reading Time: 16 minutesWhen Dave witnesses a deadly hit-and-run from two storeys up, it triggers a chain of events that makes him question reality.
Reading Time: 16 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes“My name is Calder Freeman. I am the head arcanist at GraveSecure.” He said it casually, like someone offhandedly mentioning they were a garbageman or an accountant, not an honest-to-God necromancer.
Reading Time: 13 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has space travel, magic, shape shifters, vampires, time travel, and lots of sexy times.
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Reading Time: 21 minutesIn near-future England, teenage Naomi daydreams of dating a boy from the lunar Colony.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs William ambles into the kitchen to retrieve his morning coffee, he slips on a patch of melted ice. When he falls on his back, the dishwasher swings its door open and smacks him on the head.
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhen Grandma Minerva is bitten trying to buy a special Christmas present for her grandchildren, she is determined to still have a wonderful holiday before she turns.
Reading Time: 16 minutesHow to make a panel on a Wordpress website to promote a new book release using Gutenberg blocks.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if everyone gets a magic tattoo and yours is most dangerous of all?
Reading Time: 16 minutesCan love blossom between an man and a low-gravity spider in the most dangerous parking lot in the Galaxy?
Reading Time: 22 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesWe live in an old red schoolhouse in the forest. The forest is thick and woolly, and at night you can hear the wolves sing. It is safe here.
Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has werewolves, magic, space exploration, epic fantasy, and several box sets.
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Reading Time: 16 minutesThe old metalworks where Seth’s father was a Robotics technician before the war drafted him; is now a graveyard. He sneaks back inside, never expecting to find Robots, a T-Rex and a communication bot. It is perfect until the police discover them; they are immediately sent for destruction.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesBrother Gregor bent close to his work, his hands trembling as he lifted the taper. Candlelight flickered in the gloom; incense sticks pierced the fetid air. A drab grey light trickled through the tiny windows, illuminating the chalk circle drawn across the floorboards.
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn a war-torn world of brutal fighting between greens and technocrats, three orphaned children collide with destiny. A single decision will define their lives.