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Wednesday's Verse - I Met an Elf on a Summer's Day

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This week’s verse moves from  a poem about the moon to an almost-Dr-Seuss-style urban-fantasy piece about meeting the wrong kind of elf. It is taken from 366 Days of Poetry , a collection of mixed-genre poetry released in 2016. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------   I Met anElf on a Summer's Day It happened on a summer’s day, I saw an elf along the way, and what do you think I heard him say? Hey, babe, are you headed my way? Not what I thought to hear from an elf I said to my somewhat gobsmacked self. So, I shook my head, and wished him good health, but told him I was going somewhere else. Hey, babe, what do you mean? And then he said something quite obscene, so I kept walking, though my soul did keen for the elves who’d in my childhood been, those merry souls, who in forests danced, who magicked the unicorns who pranced, and cast magicks quite ad...

Tuesday's Short - In Service to the Pinnacle

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This week’s short story takes us f rom the journalistic commentary of headlines on Earth's involvement in inter-planetary politics to a distant underwater world where diplomacy of a different kind is required. Welcome to In Service to the Pinnacle . Jamie has two names, and a whole bunch of secrets that she keeps from everyone, including her employer, Odyssey—which is no mean feat, given what that company does—but, when a mission takes her to Askreya, she has to deal with an old dilemma, an old foe, and something entirely new, and her secrets begin to come to light. Can she finish her mission, without everything being revealed? In Service to the Pinnacle is available as a stand-alone short story at the following links: books2read.com/u/bzpvPn . You can also find Kristine Kathryn Rusch's latest free short story over on her blog: kriswrites.com . Why don't you go and check it out?

Carlie's Chapter 1 - Dear Tiger: Don't Look Back

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LAST WEEK, Book 2 ended with Tiger telling Simone to be safe. This week, Tiger reveals that he has lost everyone he loves and is on the run. Chapter 1 Excerpt – Tiger on the Run Dear Simone     I know you haven’t found me yet, but it doesn’t matter. Lots happened after your last batch of letters. Worst thing is that I am on my own. Things went horribly wrong on Deskeden. Mum and dad are gone. What can I say? They’re just gone. I am doing the last thing they told me to do, the very thing you asked me to do. I am on the run. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The complete series is available as short, individual ebooks, and will become available as an omnibus, later this year. In the meantime, you can find them on this blog, until one week after the last chapter in the last book of the series has been posted, at which point this series will be taken down, and a new series s...