S. H Marpel
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More speculative fiction to transport you to worlds and times beyond knowing.
This 2nd quarter collection of original short stories will provide you with countless hours of entertainment, particularly as they are written both as speculative fiction and modern parables based on ancient principles.
Of course, they're written to be read for fun, but every time you read them, each story gets better - like something you've never seen in it before.
This...
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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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The more circuits in any machine, the more it's likely to get "haunted."
When you connect it to the Internet then you can get more than you asked for.
Installing a home system seemed obvious at the time. Having the "Internet of Things" to give you your every whim seemed a dream come true.
When our broadband costs rocketed, we looked to see what usage was happening - too many videos, too many games, was someone parked at the curb outside our house...
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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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The Legend of the haunted Spirit Mountain isn't that old. Just a few decades.
And, something to do with secret government experiments in hidden bases deep in the desert.
They must have thought no one would ever find out...
When strange weather patterns started affecting local crops in near-mystical ways, the Ghost Hunters got their assignment: find out if it was some sort of trapped spirit, who was causing this disruption. Move them on if they could....
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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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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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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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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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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...
91) 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 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...
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I WANTED TO BE MORE than just some electronic house-haunting ghost - I wanted to understand being Human.All electricity works on "on" and "off" states, if you break it right down. Even when you blend several AC and DC circuits together on the same feed. And that's what makes logic and decisions.But humans are never really off. They are running all the time - even during sleep. And their decisions aren't logical. They'd even kill each other when it...
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I had been in that stone wall for decades, alone on purpose.
Not lonely.
Waiting.
Humankind needed to evolve past what they had done to create me. I was willing to wait - as long as it took.
Because to re-emerge would mean to again threaten all humans I contacted.
The very reason all of my kind had submerged into hiding was to save humankind from ourselves, from the virus within us.
While that virus had saved us from certain death, and evolved...
99) 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...
100) The Autists: Jenna
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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...