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One young woman - while out on a simple hike, becomes trapped by a sudden storm in a long-forgotten mine. Then finds herself dressed for a ball in the middle of a snowy wilderness.
A young single rancher - who rescues a young newborn calf, only to find himself tricked into meeting elemental spirits - who tell him he invited them.
And now she has to rescue him - or did those elementals create this scene as a trick? What do these spirits actually...
2) Ham & Chaz
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Finding out you're immortal as a teenager can set your world on fire.
But finding out at the same time that just getting angry could kill everyone around you can dampen that pretty quickly.
Who wants to live forever if you can't get close enough to someone that they can piss you off and live to see the next sunrise with you?
Meaning - it was time to take a road trip to sort things out.
When my uncle offered a summer gig cooking out of his food...
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A minimalist tale of an Emperor who sought Truth that one of his student-scribes found - but then disappeared...
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One day, as court was held, the teacher was in a particularly foul mood. The weather was humid, hot, and everyone's robes stuck to their skin from sweat. The teacher strode up and down the ranks dispensing his cane strokes with rapidity.
The one student was receiving more than his share, and the teacher found himself gravitating...
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Sue had been though a world of pain already.
Surviving re-entry to this planet in a powerless escape pod. Learning to speak with telepathic canines that had become the dominant sentient beings on Earth. Finding she could shape-shift and cause illusions.
She brought the end to a civil war between their pack and those nearby. Peace on Earth - at least this little part.
By learning only a tiny bit of the unknown skills she possessed.
One warm summer's...
5) Blood Moon
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Executives running the last outposts of humanity are going missing.
Decades ago, certain cities lifted off from the surface of Earth, protected by fusion-powered shields. Their destination was the moon, to mine the needed resources to make the next phase of the journey.
The culture in these city-colonies has separated into two - the "royals" and the "down-belows". Now someone is carefully reducing the royal houses, one by one. Who that someone or...
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When Sue crash-lands back on Earth, she didn't know what to expect. What she found was a telepathic wolf pack, capable of reasoning and the dominant life form on the planet. They were in a fight for survival with the feral species of wolves, as well as the remnants of humankind.
In the first part of this, Sue learns to communicate and to travel with the pack as they fight and escape from the hunting ferals. In doing so, she fights alongside Tig,...
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How Can You Save Your Own World When You're Stuck In Someone Else's Dream?
The sentient wolf-pack that had saved her when she crash-landed back on Earth was being torn apart by internal power-struggle, and a motley feral wolf pack invading its secret valley, to kill everyone in it as revenge.
She was the only one powerful enough to save them, but she was stuck in a dreamworld of someone else...
8) Moon Shadow
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When someone sends boulder-sized rocks down to planet Earth from the moon, they approach like meteors. On the right trajectory, they don't burn up in the atmosphere, but can come down with the force of a nuclear blast.
Our tiny outpost of sentient shape-shifting wolves and escapees from the slave-labor moon colonies had caused a stir up there. They probably still didn't figure out how we managed to help all those people disappear, cross 250,000-miles...
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A first collection of short stories from C. C. Brower. Contemporary, Fantasy, Science Fiction, 13 wonderful worlds from a different view of life. New ways to look at the world you live in, and ask yourself "what if" things were different...
This anthology contains:
- The Caretaker
- When The Wild Calls
- Mind Timing
- Becoming Michelle
- When the Cities Died, I Danced
- Snow Gift
- Mr. Ben's Rail Road
- The War Bringeth
- Peace: Forever War
- Snow...
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Trapped by a vicious self-appointed Queen, the entire slave population of the moon colony, was imprisoned next to fusion drive exhaust ports. When the fusion drives ignited to lift the colony off for the moons of Saturn, they'd all be turned to ash. In all this, some of the imprisoned still held out hope. Because they could hear voices in their minds telling them not to be afraid, that rescue was coming. Their guards outside only heard their Queen's...
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Sue returned to earth in what looked like a meteor to those watching.
But it was an escape pod from the Moon colony. Where the cities had gone to escape Earth and its governments' leaving the rest of the planet to its new dark age.
She had fallen unconscious when she popped the pod's hatch to get fresh air.
And had been saved from the surrounding fire by the one witness who saw her land.
A sentient, telepathic wolf.
Now the dominant sentient...
12) 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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TO DREAM OF TALKING WOLVES AND CROWS might be strange to some.
To act on what they tell you to save some wild pups in an abandoned building with an unknown menace threatening your life - well, that might be crazy.
Kelly liked to read. And she had an active imagination. So talking to coyotes and crows in her dreams wasn't too much for her.
Until they wanted her to risk her own life to save some abandoned wild pups.
Because if she didn't, the pups...
14) The Moon Cleaner
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When the unknown "X" lost her job and any way to make a living, she only wanted her life back. But, she settled for revenge. In a way, she wouldn't expect, cleaning up the elitist government messes. Because having dead bodies around did no one any good. And, someone was on a purge in those self-named "royal" houses that ran the moon colony cities.
Her particular mindset and training as a medical clinician allowed her to view death with a singular...
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Welcome to another unique bi-monthly compilation of the inspired visions and universes from four Midwest Journal Press authors:
C. C. BrowerJ. R. KruzeS. H. MarpelR. L. Saunders
From their prolific output, we've assembled 16 short stories, grouping them by author and publication date.
While every major genre is represented, you'll also see that in most cases, these books cross genres and plot structures to give you the best possible reader experience...
16) Moon Queen
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Now that Malia of 'Cagga had her little city under perfect control, she was ready to export her efficiency plans to the rest of the moon cities. And, help them achieve a perfect society under her rule. Martial law, automated mining equipment to replace human workers, constant surveillance of everyone else.
Meaning that due to her improvements, they could lift off for their next target much sooner than expected. Because they didn't have to take anyone...
17) Totem
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The world has changed. Humans are almost extinct, other sentient species now rule this planet and work to keep it in balance. Without the polluting, noisy, conflicted centers of human populations called cities. Various plagues were released when those cities left, wiping out any concentrations of humans left.
All that is history now. Wolves and other species have achieved sentience. And, they tolerate humans among them as the dying species it is....
18) Moon Bride
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When another escape pod crash-lands to Earth, a call for searchers goes out to several sentient species to rescue its passenger. The passenger is human, the search parties are not.
The previous escape pod brought to Earth one of the most powerful sentients ever known before, and she was human as well. Together with her adoptive wolf pack, they brought peace to a wide area around them and brought those species into balance, once again. In this escape...
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Sue had been though a world of pain already.
Surviving re-entry to this planet in a powerless escape pod. Learning to speak with telepathic canines that had become the dominant sentient beings on Earth. Finding she could shape-shift and create very real illusions.
She brought the end to a civil war between their pack and those nearby. Peace on Earth - at least this little part.
By learning only a tiny bit of the special skills she was capable of.
That...
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A second collection of short stories from C. C. Brower
In addition to later earlier novellas and novels, Brower continues her prolific output with short stories - all full of wonder and high imagination.
Contemporary, Fantasy, Science Fiction - 14 wonderful stories from a different view of life. New ways to look at the world you live in, and ask yourself "what if" things were different...
For Brower fans, this includes the final installments of...
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