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1) Human Nature
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One of the Magicians suffers from human nature, and the brazen, devil-may-care, risk-taker Lance Alexander Sr realises he is mortal. He has a horrible dream of the angel of death killing, and the next day he meets a person in his dream. He dreads them recognising him. Furthermore, he knows they will kill him if they do and free the Angel his soul in killing him. He is scared, more scared than he ever was before.
He knows one of them will die, but...
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An anthology of short stories from Rachel Lawson's The Magicians series starring the Enchanter and the Necromancer Lancelot Alexander Snr.
The Haunting of the Necromancer
A hilarious farce.
When the king of the grim reapers's son needs help to take a ghost haunting his home, he asks his father to help remove it but was it a mistake.
You Can't Kill a Skeleton with a Knife
"Oh great, more paperwork!" moaned a man in a blue top hat and tux in a mask....
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Blake Alexander, the King of Death, is captured, and no one dies while he's caught by order of his captor; who also demands the soul of his wife be returned to him, or he will kill death. The grim reapers send the Necromancer, Death's son, with the soul. The soul pleads with their husband to let her go and let Death go. What will he do? How will this end? Will Death survive this or die?
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In his office In the afterlife Mortimer, the grim reaper king, In his human form sat reading and signing papers. He was Listening to Coldplays' album "A Rush of Blood to the Head" listening to "The Scientist". His idea of chilling out at work.
When in strolled his son the Necromancer.
"How is the Lord of the Dead," asked the son.
"I am not the Lord of anything, Lance," grumbled Mortimer.
Mortimer AKA Blake and Lance, The Necromancer finally tell each...
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Dr Death the coroner stood in the morgue autopsying a victim attributed to his son the Necromancer. Then out of thin air appeared a grim reaper.
"I see dead people," it said the doctor jumped startled by the sudden appearance of the reaper.
"Ha! Ha! Very funny, boy," said the doctor humourlessly, "This is a friend of yours I hear say hello to him."
"I've never met him in life," The reaper the Necromancer said.
"Are you serious?" asked Dr Death grimly.
"Yes...
8) Times Change
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Dr Blak Alexander aka Mortimer is caught by the police saving his son's life his mugshot is a hit with the police He must confront his great uncle the policeman magician with the truth he is dead and has been protecting his son from the law. How will the policeman react? How far will their friends go to help save them?A reworked version of Caught Dead and Out of Time.as one extended story
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A Really short Magicians story.
"Dad tell me again why we a digging a grave?" Lance Alexander asked his Dad Blake Alexander.
"We're burying your latest victim," Blake snapped back.
"Ha! Ha," returned Lance not at all amused.
"Fate has decreed we reapers must do graveyard duty for the next week he called it grave diggers appreciation month," moaned Blake who was in grim reaper form as his son was.
"This is insane!" said Lance.
"Stop moaning! We have...
10) The Shaman
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"Hello, my son is possessed," a man said on the phone to a Shaman.
"What proof do you have?" asked the Shaman.
"He is acting like a psychopath he is disrespectful and dangerous and he rambles about being an avenging angel." moaned a man in a lab coat and glasses.
"Has he spoken to a doctor he sounds like he needs a psychologist, not a Shaman," said the Shaman.
"His doctor thinks he needs to be convinced he's been exorcised to make him heal he is deluded,"...
11) * Star Crossed
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* Star CrossedA NoveletteThe Necromantor, the King of Doom meets his match with a grey alien diplomat's sister Mookaite Ga her brother tries to break them up not because of racism but because he's a jinx because all women he loves die according to the drunk Masked Chicken. They have Romeo and Juliet relationship. It all goes wrong when the press turns up and the secret lovers are caught revealing the existence of aliens and their relationship. Will...
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Will this killer scare him to death or kill him? Lance Alexander Sr sat singing along with his car radio as he waited to pick up his son Jr. He was totally distracted by the music. He didn't see the man jump in his car til it was too late. "What are you doing in my car," said Lance noticing him."Drive!" said the stranger coldly."I'm waiting for my son hit the road, Jack!" said Lance he hadn't time for this guy."Forget him and drive," said the stranger...
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A feast of short stories from Rachel Lawson's The Magicians series. Note this is the text version and this book is also available a audio book.Starting with * Star CrossedA NoveletteThe Necromantor, the King of Doom meets his match with a grey alien diplomat's sister Mookaite Ga her brother tries to break them up not because of racism but because he's a jinx because all women he loves die according to the drunk Masked Chicken. They have Romeo and...
14) Behind Blue Eyes
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First Story
Behind Blue Eyes
The eyes are the mask of Blake the Grim Reaper a story about how hard it is for the Reaper to hide behind Blake the coroner's blue eyes he knows the true name of a corpse in his morgue known only as John Doe but can't reveal it.
In walked a policeman in uniform he was puzzled.
"Were you talking to your friend on the slab's ghost? Did he say who he was?" asked the policeman Blake's great uncle the Magician the Red Fox.
"Hmm?...
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Aureus Argent aka Gabriel Drac, (the former Masked Chicken) a Magician paints a picture of Blake as a human magician he is the emperor of the magicians, and as a birthday present for Blake, it ends up in his afterlife office, where he is to have a reporter doing an article on him by order of Fate, his boss. How bad can this go? Really bad! But how bad?
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"What are you doing in a lonely blind ally in the city at night?" asked the father of a very suspicious character, a man in black wearing a long black trench coat he was wanted as a serial killer.
"Go away I'm working Dad," hissed the son Lance.
"I won't," said the father hoping to prevent a murder.
"Go away I don't need skeletons coming out of closets and getting in my way," said Lance the son cryptically. A car started nearby and left.
"You scared...
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The Sleeper Awakes
In his sleep one day something terrible awakens something inside him, even the killer Fate's angel of vengeance can't stop or kill this stranger.
It is the Angel of Death! An unstoppable killer who kills with the power of Death. He was a myth amongst the grim reapers. Now he who has been sleeping within the heart of a killer has awoken.
How will his father the King of the Reapers take the news?
18) Danse Macabre
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The Show Must Go OnWhen stage magician Blake Alexander aka Blake Fire who has a grim reaper for a soul senses someone in his audience is going to die he dances between life and death to not collect them with all his strength he must live and not take them to the afterlife because when his soul is released his body dies and he can't die on stage in front of the world let alone come back to life.
19) Left for Dead
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Blake is in a hit-and-run and left for dead in the brush on the side of the road in the mountains near where he lives he would have been unfound but his soul is a grim reaper he visits his son for help was it a mistake? Will he die or live?
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