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The 1940s. A time when Hollywood studios owned their talent. Which included making sure the talent avoided scandal. Shining star Tabitha St. Claire has a secret. PI Sam Belmont accepts the job to learn what that secret is. To devastating results… A standalone story in the popular Nikki Ashburne series, "An Ocean of Secrets in Her Eyes" originally appeared in Fiction River: Chances, 2021.
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Alyse lost her job and her fiancé in one fell swoop. Her solace? Her weekly visit to the Santa Barbara Zoo's Asian small-clawed otter exhibit.Then she meets zoo employee Matt, who shows her something special about the otters-and herself.Recycled Pulp editor John Helfers calls this story a kooky little palate cleanser."The Imperfect Otter Empire" originally appeared in Recycled Pulp (Fiction River, 2015).
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Angrrr Management: four talented guys, yes, and awfully pretty, all of them. And every last one of them was dumber than a post.Had they never HEARD of Robert Johnson?A hilarious short story about 80s hair metal and selling your soul to Satan. This is why USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith calls Dermatis one of the best writers working today"!The Devil Went Down to the Sunset Strip" originally appeared in Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and...
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A dragon slayer arrives to rescue a threatened town, but the real threat-and the dragon's true desires-are not necessarily one and the same.A short-short fantasy story with a wicked twist! Find out why USA Today Bestselling Author Dean Wesley Smith calls Dermatis one of the best writers working today."
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Enhanced feline Cecil keeps his mistress's house free of vermin and keeps his mistress's nerves calm as she prepares to display her inventions at The Great Exhibition of London.
But when Her Majesty Victoria asks for their assistance, of course they agree.
And Cecil must put his skills to work in a unique and unexpected way.
Come and experience steampunk London through the ears and nose (and eyes) of a very special cat...!
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Bespelled by a faerie curse. Framed for stealing a baby. Watches her boyfriend get spirited away by the beguiling fae bitch.
But Tamara isn't someone who takes this sort of shit lying down.
She has a legacy to uphold, and a boyfriend to rescue...and a secret that will rock both the faerie and mundane worlds.
A mesmerizing fantasy short story from one of the best writers working today.
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Former Hollywood party girl Nikki Ashburne sees ghosts-in fact, many of them are her friends. Okay, they're kind of her only friends. Most ghosts stick around because they're happy here and have no desire to move on…but sometimes, they need help.Like when a decades-dead Marilyn Monroe impersonator wants Nikki to find her granddaughter. In Los Angeles.Yeah. That'll be easy.Another story in the Nikki Ashburne urban fantasy series, Living With the...
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When petty criminals Angela and Mike stumble across an abandoned coal mining facility in a Tennessee forest, they plan to stay for the night. The next morning, Angela finds Mike and all their possessions gone. And she learns why the mining company closed its doors, and what haunts its halls... Eerie and unique, "Left Behind, She Waited" will give you chills and make you think twice about redemption. "Left Behind, She Waited" originally appeared in...
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One of the only places to find summer employment as a teen in the 1980s Florida Heartland was at Pirate Pete's Adventureland. No matter that the place was rundown or that you had to buy your own work T-shirts and water cups. When Gina goes back one night to get a clean T-shirt from her locker, she discovers another side to the seedy park. A side that might end her life before it really begins…. "Pirate Pete's" originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's...
10) Berengere
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When Berengere's husband, the king of Coraise, goes away crusade, his brother Jean assumes the role of Regent-and makes Berengere and her family guests" in his chateau.Berengere knows they're really prisoners, but there's nothing she can do except try to make their appartements more pleasing by painting murals of the outside world.Are the murals a means of escape…or is Berengere slipping into madness?In Berengere," bestselling author Dayle A. Dermatis...
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In late-1800s Portland, Oregon, eight-year-old Mae loses her mother. The only thing left: a leather-bound old book filled with indecipherable text. When a mysterious man from her mother's past appears, Mae learns about the fiery power she contains. Now she must learn to control the flames before disaster strikes…. A magical historical story set in the exciting Portland Hedgewitches universe! "Embracing the Flames" is part of Uncollected Anthology,...
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Her parents taught Annalee to never sing, told her she had no talent, despite having a mega-pop-star half-sister.Then a drunken night of karaoke releases Annalee power-a power her parents had desperately sought to contain. A power that causes government agencies to perk up and take notice.Dammit.Originally published in Hex in the City, The Sound of My Own Voice" shows why USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith calls Dayle A. Dermatis one of...
13) Love Flu
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Isa juggles being a nanny to tween Gretchen, studying for her MBA, and honing her magical cooking skills. Time for romance? Hah!Then Gretchen casts an ill-advised love spell, and Isa's world gets turned upside down.In ways nobody-including Isa, Gretchen, and Gretchen's divorced parents-expects.Sounds like everybody's going to be in need of Isa's special hot fudge sauce…Love Flu" is part of Uncollected Anthology, Volume 15: Heart's Desires.One of...
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If you're gonna buy a spell, go to someone legit. Bargain spells? Well, you get what you pay for…When hapless Roberta comes to Portland hedgewitch Holly asking for help with a botched spell, Holly stumbles into the spell's trap as well. Her best bet: find the witch who created the spell. In the middle of a snowstorm.And in the process, figure out why Roberta's boss scares her so much…A new story in the spellbinding Hedgewitch urban fantasy series...
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Former Hollywood party girl Nikki Ashburne sees ghosts-in fact, many of them are her friends. Okay, they're kind of her only friends.
So when the ghost of a 70s British rock god asks her for help finding a song he wrote for his favorite groupie...well, c'mon. What's a girl to do but say yes?
Only one problem: Nikki's rift with her musician brother, Ned, over the spectral secret she's been keeping from him...Another story in the popular Ghosted urban...
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You're not supposed to be here. This is the wrong future. On the brink of figuring out time travel, Tom and Paola became lovers-despite Tom's marriage to Jillian.
Then Tom died. Only Paola knows he manipulated time itself...and created a dangerous time conundrum.
The question: What will Jillan do when Paola tells her the truth?
A heart-rending story about love beyond time that will stay with you long after you've finished reading.
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Ranging from traditional fantasy to science fiction to contemporary fantasy to the undefinably absurd, the stories in this collection will appeal to readers of all types of speculative fiction. In Written on the Coast you'll find out why Dayle A. Dermatis's short fiction has been called "really, really good"! With a foreword by USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith. Featuring the following stories:• Masked• Love Makes the Universe Go...
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Umberto Scolari. Engineer. Thinker. Student to Il Maestro himself: Leonard da Vinci.
While da Vinci paints and designs machinery for his patrons, Umberto picks up the slack when someone needs a murder solved, a baby reunited with its mother, or help solving other crimes.
Peppered with well-known historical figures and often based around actual events, these five mystery stories bring the Italian Renaissance alive.
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Helena runs Paranormal Manifestation Services-PMS for short.When she's hired by Beth and Marguerite to find out why a ghost is bothering Marguerite, she doesn't expect to get a crush on Beth…which makes things especially awkward when she learns who the ghost is.Rainbow Reviews called this short story unexpectedly romantic and heart-wrenching," and it was nominated for a 2008 Romance Erotica Connection Award for Best F/F Romance Short Story and for...
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Esme Blaylock, missing her deployed husband, wants to be curled up in her warm home with her baby daughter on Christmas Eve. Instead she's at an upstate New York prison, assigned to interview Jennifer Duschanes, who poisoned her own children one year ago.Jennifer sees a kindred soul in new mother Esme, and for the first time, reveals why she committed her heinous crime.The truth will change Esme forever.Dayle A. Dermatis eschewed Dick & Jane and instead...
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