S. H Marpel
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In the days when people were owned by the land, two young girls found their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides.
This is their origin-story...
Their parents were serfs, and belonged to two different dukedoms. Falling in love endangered them both. Becoming pregnant with twins made this even worse.
Their Dad had to raise them by himself, as Mother died shortly after birthing them. But as a spirit, she remained on Earth to watch over them....
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It started with a dream.
In it, John Earl Stark solved the problem of a ghost he met. Or did he? It was a dream, after all.
The next day he meets two women who visit his cabin, arriving out of the blue, literally. (Well, one arrived with pitched black darkness which filled his cabin and made her cough.)
These two have an offer for Stark. All he really wanted was to enjoy the small cabin and solitude so he could write his detective stories.
These...
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I knew exactly why I was still here. To haunt whoever had pushed me overboard.
My only problem was finding them. And, if they weren't still alive, they had relatives.
Meanwhile, I kept amused by haunting the ship's passengers and crew. And, the cruise line didn't have a problem with it. Their "haunted cruises" were a big hit. Full capacity for this old boat and its evening dinner cruises out beyond the harbor.
"Misstep Mary" they called me. Even...
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Born between worlds, Silvie fell in love with Earth when she first visited it.
She just didn't like the culture, the politics, the noise.
So she decided to remake it the way she wanted it. Improve it. Civilize it. Regardless of who thought themselves in power.
Because they didn't know real power. Silvie did. And had to prove it to several races who had tried to extinguish hers. Saving her own life was nothing new.
Compassion for others was.
Only...
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They call me Mysti. Because of my mystic origins.
The beings who raised me almost killed me before they found out my real value.
They became my mentors, and then - as my powers expanded - my servants.
What they never knew is that "mystic" means both master and novice.
So, I left them to find someone who could actually teach me balance between the two extremes that lived inside me. And, like a double-edged sword, could cut both ways.
And, like...
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My true love got us trapped here with my own time machine.
Not really her fault - or I hoped, anyway.
You see, she's brilliant, powerful - and a shapeshifting cat who rules Ancient Egypt.
That last part doesn't bother me, as long as she's human at least part of the time. Otherwise, royal consorts have some benefits, too.
She brought me here with my own machine. And, then it disappeared. Stolen. And, now we're marooned. But, that doesn't matter....
7) Doppel
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Two twin boys were born one stormy night, while flying through the Bermuda Triangle.
One didn't belong to this universe, the other did.
An easier entrance was made in Washington, D. C. Just a test appearance because this man wanted to find his own doppelganger. Somewhere in Congress.
Around his finger was a thin dark ring with two stones on it - one red, and one blue. The ring was carved into the shape of a serpent eating its own tail. An ancient...
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In the days when people were owned by the land, two young girls found their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides.
This is their origin-story...
Their Dad had to raise them by himself, as Mother died shortly after birthing them. But as a spirit, she remained on Earth to watch over them. Sal and Jude could see her, and knew their Dad could feel her presence. Father and Mother taught them all they knew.
Efforts to enter the forest, to exploit...
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In the days when people were owned by the land, two young girls found their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides. This is their origin-story...
Their parents were serfs, and belonged to two different dukedoms. Falling in love endangered them both. Becoming pregnant with twins made this even worse.
Their Dad had to raise them by himself, as Mother died shortly after birthing them. But her spirit remained on Earth to watch over them. Sal and...
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Facing a fireball storm and living to tell about it wasn't in John's plans for the day.
But when he and his two female spirit guides were caught behind a red subcompact taking hit after hit of fireballs, someone had to do something. Because they could only keep taking those hits for so long.
Something in what he said made one of the girls step up and get the attention of whoever was throwing those fireballs at them. A distraction long enough for...
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The adventures of the Ghost Hunters continue - with more exotic locations and hair-raising paranormal adventures than ever before:
- Visiting a haunted planet where the normal is falling between two worlds, while John winds up solving being in a coma, away from his body.
- The goddes Harpy returns with a simple request for John, a personal and very human one.
- Sal has to help John sort out a mental mis-thinking that could kill him off unless unraveled.
-...
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Walking down the highway barefoot, feverish, and in only a nightgown.
At least the storm had quit. Now if I could get my chattering teeth to stop, it would help, maybe.
Up ahead, I see some stopped cars. Some have their lights on. Maybe I can get help. Too bad I can't travel any faster the way I am.
That's odd. Nobody in them. Lights on, but no one at home.
Except for a crying baby. And no one answers my calls either.
No, I can't leave her alone....
13) Harpy Spawn
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Sunset found me trying to understand why the small herd I was caring for was nervous and bawling.It wasn't long before I saw what they were looking up at. Or rather, who.Three human-sized females, each with broad wings, were circling the herd, as if looking for their evening meal.As I saw them, they spied me – and started dropping from the sky right toward the spot I stood on.Since I couldn't outrun them, I just stood there so see if I was going...
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An old clock tower, with an unsolved death, that the ghost still haunted.
Once a year she appeared. Right on the calendar date of her death. Not that she wasn't also seen during the day, some rumors said, but that was a real person. A flesh version.
Who was also haunted by the mysterious death.
The mystery was, who pushed the young woman, or did she simply slip? Why the lights in the upper bell tower, and why three of them? Too many for a single...
15) The Tao of Mysti
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I'd been left out here, alone. By an oil-burning lamp. In the cold, uncaring desert.
It was my only comfort until dawn.
Just dawn started bringing the earliest glimmer of what I could see with my human eyes, I woke to some snuffling sound near my head.
Opening my eyes, not relishing the hot day coming, I saw the nose of an animal near my face.
"Rise, little one."
I sat up. And, saw eye-to-eye with a female coyote.
She was not young. Scars crisscrossed...
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The result of all these civil wars was complete destruction.
Maybe we should have taken a hint from all those wars we fought "over there" and the footage came back showing entire cities now only towering, shattered icons that stood in piles of rubble.
Uninhabited. uninhabitable.
Yet this one woman stayed there. This was her new home, she repeated stubbornly. She wasn't leaving. Even though it meant eventual death.
If the warring armies didn't...
17) Walkaway Mary
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I felt like a ghost.I'd only met him once, but was drawn to him like a moth to flame.And didn't know why.It was this author I wanted to see, but I didn't know if he wanted to see me.He left me an autographed book of his, with his number.But then I lost that book before I could call.So I found he came to this diner often, a regular. It was where we first met. And It didn't take much to get his schedule from the waitress.So now, right time and right...
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Gods and goddesses roamed the earth for millennia.
Some hold that they still do.
Two babes were born in the King's Forest, hunted by the King's soldiers and two Duke's armies. Life there was protected - and as pleasant as living among wild animals with only your father could be.
For their mother died in childbirth, and became a spirit-guide for that forest, keeping the land, plants, and animals in balance. Meanwhile, she helped her mortal husband...
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Where I had come from, how I had got here, I didn't know.
All I knew were my powers, the one's I knew from my childhood. The one's I'd spent my youth learning and perfecting. Witchcraft that could kill someone, or save their life.
But, now I was here in a strange world, different people, unusual customs...
I didn't even know if my spells would work here - or if they burned witches at the stake - or tortured non-witches.
And, on top of that I was...
20) Harpy Redux
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An old enemy found me, and left me powerless, when I was only trying to help her.
We'd met year ago, and she became trapped in the mystic world she'd created, on of evil and retribution for imagined offenses. I had my own problems at the time, so became the target of her wrath. When she disappeared, and became trapped for thousands of years, I had almost forgotten her.
Meanwhile, life had changed. Lessons had been, learned. People moved on. Then...