S. H Marpel
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Some satire is timeless. Others predict the near future with uncanny accuracy.
When you're faced with a violent, dangerous present - perhaps it's some relief to blow it all up into an exaggerated future history. Then you can tell yourself that it's all just entertainment....And hope it doesn't really turn out that way.- -She could still remember the look on his face when they closed the Riot Wall for the final time.
She could barely find him at...
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You'd think that after a couple of thousand years, I'd be able to find my angel wings when I wanted them.
Pretty hard to misplace, if you think about it at all.
But when, I woke up to go to work this morning, they weren't there. Not in my closet, not hanging on the bedpost, and certainly not on my shoulders where they always had been.
Sure, I was always able to appear to humans without them. But just because they couldn't see them, didn't mean...
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She needed a Ghost Hunter to help her save her world from self-destruction.A plague was killing faery folk of all types - or they were simply disappearing. Soon her world would be empty, and she might become one of the terminal-infected herself.She had to do something, or there would be nothing left.Her decision was to go to the source of the infection and find the one person who could help her figure out an antidote - the mystery writer John Earl...
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A massive collection of quick escapes into alternate universes where you can live through the eyes of everyday people finding themselves in fantastic adventures.Mysteries, Romances, Fantasies, and Science Fiction - all sorts of speculative fiction beyond the ordinary and humdrum.But why devote weeks to reading a huge novel, when you can escape in the few minutes you have and be back before anyone notices you were gone?That's the great advantage of...
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Be transported into speculation on the world we live in and those we might still.This first quarter anthology of short story fiction by S. H. Marpel and various co-authors brings you new ideas to digest - all in the short periods of time you have available. Solve the mysteries of the paranormal as common-place - If you can.This Anthology contains:- Walkaway Mary by S. H. Marpel- Empress Oracle by S. H. Marpel, J. R. Kruze- The Healers Chronicles:...
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She was tall, with a long black wavy mane that came most the way down her back.While her tight black leather jeans almost came up to meet, except for a narrow band of pure ivory skin. Those, plus a cropped knit top and an opened short jacket, drew all eyes to her in the backwoods bar.Only the jukebox continued any noise, beating out a worn country music classic.She had come to see me. Perhaps to help with my simple request. Because I needed assistance...
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The ship was storm-tossed, no one at the helm, its sails tattered and ragged.Unless the couple got to the ship's wheel soon, they and the ship would be destroyed.It seemed years before the couple could struggle against the rocking waves and gusting wind to reach the quarterdeck - to at last get control over that ship's wheel.The two of them were able to finally wrestle the ship's rudder to start pointing the ship's travel with the waves instead of...
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When the hamburgers all disappeared, along with the buns I was warming, I thought I was seeing things.
But when my spatula went through the cast-iron grill top - I had to let it go out of reflex. No way was I going after it. I'd been burned too many times.
It wasn't like I had a choice after that. Because the grill itself dropped out through the bottom of the rolling coach we were cooking out of that summer.
I looked up at Hami, my order-taker,...
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She could still remember the look on his face when they closed the Riot Wall for the final time.
She could barely find him at first beyond the chain-link fence a few hundred yards away. If not for that red-plaid shirt he always wore when he visited her. Standing in the closed "visitor" queue on his side of that wall.
After this day, there would be no more visits. Because this wall was the long-overdue solution to the long-running riots.
Riots meant...
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Have you ever thought some very dangeous thoughts?
Ones that could destroy all life as you knew it?
In these six stories by three authors, they do just that. Of course, fiction is safer than real life, so it's much easier to test things here. ...Or so we've been told.
In these stories are ideas that will captivate, and excite you to new thoughts and ideas of your own. Because the universe we live in is just a hair's-breadth away from the fictional...
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If laughter is the best medicine, then reading humorous short stories should be the best practice to maintain your health.
These three authors with their six stories have written stories that both poke fun at the sacrosanct and also skewer them for dissection as both pompous and ripe.
From the ranks of Voltaire, Twain, and Vonnegut, these new voices have something to say about how our current culture and what they consider serious. You may find...
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The first collection of our short stories for 2019 continues in our tradition of mysteries and speculative fiction. This contains the first quarter's work from a couple of our authors.
And, ongoing credit is given to our fans who gave us story ideas.
A World Gone Reverse tells the second installment of a time bender's journey, and her escaping the black SUV types trying to capture her.
Erotika Jones make her debut as a sexy female detective, who...
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She was tall, with a long black wavy mane that came most the way down her back.While her tight black leather jeans almost came up to meet, except for a narrow band of pure ivory skin. Those, plus a cropped knit top and an opened shorf jacket, drew all eyes to her in the backwoods bar.Only the jukebox continued any noise, beating out a worn country music classic.She had come to see me. Perhaps to help with my simple request. Because I needed assistance...
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Where I was and who I was were the one question needing their answers. I'd been transported, yet not in my own body. Both actions I was more than used to. Usually didn't happen together. Usually. And here I was, somewhere. It wasn't even uncomfortable to be someone else.The one idea I knew for certain was that I was here to solve a mystery. Probably a crime. Something disastrous.People were counting on me to solve these mysteries. Their lives and...
95) Dark Lazurai
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The nightmare came as usual, and woke him in sweats and a blinding flash of light - also as usual.
Right on his birthday. Their birthday.
No prescription or alchoholic drink did any good. Didn't even give him a buzz.
Long walks, working at some hands-on project - those were the ways he could eventually move his "birthday nightmare" out of his system.
Every year it happened. The day his twin brother was incinerated alive by a government experiment...
96) Wolver's Village
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I hated being chased. Especially by a hungry mob wanting me for their next meal.It didn't help that they had some sort of smoke belching truck that could travel faster than I could run.The good part, if there was one, is that we weren't on traveled roads, but running cross country.When there was a ditch - I leaped it, a fallen tree - I scrambled under. Wolves ran best in cross-country.That truck, and a lot of those people, had to go around.The bad...
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I was Queen of the World. Until I wasn't. One moment I was in chains and bleeding, the next I was fine, but dressed in red. Someone had played a dirty trick on me. They'd dressed me in a red cartoon outfit, like a Queen. But, not my usual goth black. And I also couldn't get out of it. Buttons too high on my back. Hoops and petticoats I couldn't reach under to get free of.
Someone was going to pay for this.
That little Sue Reginald was the last person...
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Boy meets girl at a diner - and condemns thousands of ghosts to haunt forever.Young John Earl Stark met Mary in a diner, an innocent girl who was just getting over a tragic outcome in her life. He helped her regain hope and gave her the tools to sort out her life.A simple gesture. He also gave her his phone number.But then hell broke loose.John found himself in a time loop, so that he never made the decision to become a Ghost Hunter. He job should...
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The burning chapel had six of us in it.Right now, the flames were simply a fiery wall that engulfed the front doors and kept the mob at bay.I stomped out the single torch they had thrown in. There was plenty of light to see by. Nothing else was burning except the candles in their stands.Then my guide told me we all needed to join hands in order to escape.As we did, the rest of the interior suddenly burst into a roaring conflagration.To the rest of...
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They didn't know that they were going to solve a mystery that had raged across decades. The mystery that tore down Mary's heart and soul to pieces.
She sat at the diner only to drown her sorrows in their famous apple pie with cinnamon-vanilla ice cream.
John only came to sample their famous dessert he'd heard about all over town.
Mary had just found out that she'd been lied to for years. The truth can hurt. It's those emotional claws and shrieks...