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1) The Autists
At the beginning was The Games. Because they were running out of people.
The gangs were killing each other off too fast. And the city was running out of money to keep them all on free food and free medical.
The Games put everyone in the city to work. They competed with each other for production bonuses. Citizens that didn't work, hardly ate. There was a Plan, and the Game was part of the Plan.
In this plan, the
...A goddess visted me. And told me to get to work. Writers were supposed to be writing, not just complaining about their writer's block.
She told me that what you don't use, you lose. So my imagination was something to exercise.
Of course, the way she was dressed left little to the imagination. And as she got closer, it was more evident...
Excerpt:
A goddess came to me last night.
She
...How Can You Save Your Own World When You're Stuck In Someone Else's Dream?
The sentient wolf-pack that had saved her when she crash-landed back on Earth was being torn apart by internal power-struggle, and a motley feral wolf pack invading its secret valley - to kill everyone in it as revenge.
She was the only one powerful enough to save them, but she was stuck in a dreamworld of someone else...
The final chapter
...7) The Lazurai
An unintended result of a terrorist bombing a children's hospital, the Lazurai could kill a person without touching them.
The government made it worse by their experiments. All the children wanted was to feel love like any child. When they grew older, their powers increased. And they found they couldn't be stopped.
Chuck hears a rumor of one coming his way, to his remote way station on the highway. But he can't leave
...Light, Seasonal Reading by New Author C. C. Brower
Contains three short stories to fill your holidays with cheer:
The house seemed so empty now with the children all grown up and on their own. Just [ ] and his masters. A view of the holidays through the eyes of the family dog.
But this holiday has surprises for all, and a heartwarming surprise ending.
A light
...9) Mind Timing
11) Snow Gift
What choice does he have but to pick the newborn up and get her to where it's warm and dry for the night? ...And then come back in the dark to find its mother.
40 pounds of calf a quarter of a mile from anywhere....
An Epic 4-Day Road Trip and Fantastical Semi-Memoir
Living life is nothing that any moron or better couldn't accomplish, even without setting one's mind to it. The trick is to do something with that life. Or live several at once, so that one could at least be a success in one of them.
Herbert, having endured his mid-life crisis with all the aplomb possibly available to him, now was set on making a new life for himself.
...13) A Dog Named Kat
Tragedy struck. And I never had a reason to smile after that funeral.
Or talk to anyone other than I had to. I'd rather sit in my room and re-read my Nancy Drew and Box Car Children books.
Until my Dad brought home a puppy from a farmer down the road - last of the litter. Dad got this dog to cheer me up, and give me someone to be with me while he was at work. Because I hadn't smiled or hardly talked since the funeral
Me
...It rare to find a naked woman in your cabin when you come in from outside chores.
But it was only a visitor who had come to see me before.
She was a goddess, and dressed in gossamer.
Not that I minded how she was dressed, much. But the last time she had brought a serious message for me.
One that had changed my life.
So what did she want this time?
Excerpt:
At first, I
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