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2021 [Supposedly] Sappy Stories
This year we wrote a TON of [Supposedly] Sappy Stories! If you read them and vote for your favorite(s), before March 1st, then we’ll turn the most voted for story into a full length novel. In other news, Paper Princess has just gotten back from the editor and we are aiming for a spring release! Until then, we hope you enjoy these free stories: 2021 [Supposedly] Sappy Lineup Snow Bait (Isolde) To Earn My Keep (Jill) Cooking with Carrot & Grape (Ely) Inescapable (Acheron) Wingspan (Eshne) Twisted Luck (Corban) Starlight (Khale) Cubism (Ed) Farm & Gaurden (Oisin) Laety & The Half Life (Laety) Driftwood (Tala & Nell) Love & Logistics…
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Flight of an Untamed Beast
Spence startled awake. His mind struggled to catch up with his racing heart. When he settled his breathing he could hear it: Outside, something growled deep in the night. He worked to even his breaths. Beyond their bedroom, a field of sheep bleated urgently. He leaned over the edge of the bed and pulled his small dagger off of the end table. On his other side, Hannah stirred. He turned to her, his ear fixated on the window at his back. “Did you hear that?” Hannah whispered. She looked out the window, into the thick fog of night. Spence growled, a mockery of the sound he’d heard earlier. The sheep…
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Night of an Unknown Murderer
Oisin had a mental list of things that rhymed with Spence: dense, which his love for Spence was; tense, which Spence was, fence, which Oisin and Spence liked to do when they trained. There was sense, which was in a whole different, alluring, delectable, sensual category. The word spence itself meant place where provisions are kept. That was the best. Spence was the place where everything Oisin needed for happiness was kept: The love, the passion, the shadowed moments. The intensity, which was its own planet orbiting Spence. Then there were experiences like tonight, when words like immense and defense came into play. It started…
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Journey of an Undone Man
About 13 years ago… Endings have a strange, circular way of feeling like beginnings. This was the beginning of an end. I lay in what some call final repose. Was I at peace with my death? In many ways, yes: I believed I deserved it, for having ruined the lives of so many I loved. Conversely, my loves lived on. My son would be alone without me, and the world continued its inexorable march toward an unknown destination: The end of times? The final solar showdown? Stardust? Whatever it was, I would no longer be part of the journey. Some of the dying feel peace, they say.…
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Our Next Book
Finding the right story after Blue Note has been a year long struggle. More than. We began Green Zone, the sequel, with Talise as the narrator. We switched to Niels. We tried Spence. We found a lot of things we want to do with the story, but something kept being wrong. Missing. We have written three full books, sent one through the the editing process, and scrapped it all. Until now. Scales in Blue will follow Jace and Corban (the dyed hair guard from the palace) during the same time frame as Blue Note. It’s the pieces we were missing, the story we wanted to tell. While we haven’t completed…
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Vent(s)
It was Sendvish — middle of the week, no mentionable anything tying that day to anything else, and it was after school. It was because of those key factors that Nim chose that day to sneak into the boys dorm room. She used the vents. Most people tried to break in by asking a Wiccan for an appearance or invisibility spell, by using a glamour, or by transforming somehow. The problem with the vents was that they were slick. The metal curved upward and the seams, forged by dwarves, were as close to non-existence as possible. This is where magic came into play. Nim used sticky Undine scales, a trademark…
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The Bridge Home
It was a starlit morning. As the sun rose from deep beneath the eastern mountains, Rylena made her way through the pixie village. Each morning she checked on those who came down from their treehouses to greet her, to greet the day. She looked up at the stars as she felt Konrad’s mind awaken. Good morning my love, she greeted him. Good morning, Konrad replied — their minds linked by thought. Rylena stopped at a booth with fresh pink fruits filled with juice. She offered a coin to a young girl who sat behind the basket. The girl took the coin and offered her a large plump fruit. “Thank you,”…
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Fountain of Light
Ach froze in place just outside the barn door. He’d spent the last hour or so in a casual search for Nell, but hadn’t found him yet. It was likely he worked somewhere in the back of his massive animal barn. If he went inside, Nell would see him, and he’d blush and forget how to think. The whole world would spin, grounded in Nell like he was Ach’s anchor in raging seas. He was Ach’s anchor, even in calm seas (which they usually weren’t because there were so many people in this place and Ach didn’t know most of them). But. If he didn’t go…
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The Chess Box
As a connoisseur of words, Drey favored precise language whenever possible. This day, this sentiment, these last moments bound heart-to-heart with the love of his life; this was bittersweet. They pressed their foreheads together, hands at the nape of each other’s necks, and said a final goodbye. They would live in the same home and continue to raise their children together, but the twining of their minds would unravel as— Drey gasped, as his love severed the connection. He’d anticipated something gentle, an unfurling of their essences into distinct beings once again, but all he felt was profound silence, absence. Nell was gone. Drey choked back…
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Blue Note Book Tour
Blue Note is back on tour. We have a $25 Amazon gift card giveaway attached to the tour stops. January 27 Fang-tastic Books (Guest Blog – Character Interview with Niels Poulsen) January 28 Paranormalists January 29 Booklikes January 29 Books Dreams Life January 30 Roxanne’s Realm (Interview) January 31 The Creatively Green Write at Home Mom (Guest Blog) February 3 Bewitching Book Tours February 4 Mythical Books (Review) February 5 Momma Says: To Read or Not to Read February 6 Books 4 Book Nerds February 7 The Book Junkie Reads (Interview) February 10 3 Partners in Shopping, Nana, Mommy, and Sissy, Too! February 11 Kay Phoenix February 12 T’s Stuff…