Burning Embers
Reading Time: 27 minutes A psychic makes the mistake of falling in love with the person she is supposed to protect from assassination.
Williamson’s Cosmic Express Embraces Progress
Reading Time: 16 minutes There is now, and indeed has always been, a tendency of society to split between those who favor progress and those who want things left well enough alone.
Forbidden
Reading Time: 10 minutes “Don’t go in the forest.” “Don’t open your eyes after sunset.” “Don’t look behind that door in the cellar.” Being forbidden from doing something is a common theme in fairy tales, but why? What kind of power does the person doing the forbidding have over the one being forbidden?
All Appearances Aside
Reading Time: 4 minutes You can change your appearance with the touch of a button. But should you?
Renna’s Crossing
Reading Time: 25 minutes The first part of a contemporary fantasy story for young and new adults. Sixteen-year-old Renna Porter and Job, her mysterious tutor in witchcraft, race to a magical sanctuary deep in the Adirondacks, pursued by a demon hunting down the last of Renna’s bloodline.
Castaway on Temurlone
Reading Time: 21 minutes
It is indeed a Universe of Miracles! But not for young Pimsol Anderts, idle and jobless on a depressed, waterlogged world, until he signs aboard the interstellar freighter Miraculous Abernathy. Indentured to the aristocratic Wirthy family—and bewitched by beautiful Mirable Wirthy, the latest clone of the long-dead matriarch Imogene Wirthy—Pim’s adventure has barely begun when pirates attack, forcing him to flee the ship with Mirable in tow …
Vonnegut’s The Big Trip Up Yonder Casts Hilarious Fun at Generation Gap
Reading Time: 13 minutes This tale is an excellent example of Vonnegut’s grasp of the hilarious and sometimes macabre nature of humanity.
The Apatite Necklace
Reading Time: 8 minutes At a cliff’s edge, an unnamed protagonist has a conversation with their dead mother.
Treasure Hunt
Reading Time: 4 minutes A video game eventually progresses from virtuality to reality.
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