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  • Excerpt from Gifts Of The Mother

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    Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSLPC8GQ Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/mqeV66 “I’m pregnant!  I’ll get them for this!”  Julie was angry.  There were several responses I could make to that.  I could have observed that ‘Osiris’ and ‘Isis’ were already dead and beyond our reach.  I could have observed that The Mad God, who stood behind them, was just a…

  • Excerpt from The Gates To Faerie

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    Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QBDL8QK Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/47xV9N I woke up the worst kind of alone. The alarm went off, same as usual.  My arm was across her as I woke up, my befuddled mind thinking Wow, guess that wasn’t just a dream.  I managed to reach over and hit snooze in order to cuddle up, just…

  • Excerpt from Bubbles Of Creation

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    Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4NW9LFF Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/u/bpxJ5E What I found was a landscape of devastation. Ygg’s bark in the vicinity of the gate to Aescalon looked like it had been hit by flood.  No, that wasn’t right.  It looked like it had been blasted by a titan’s firehose. The ground itself had been blasted away, the…

  • Excerpt from The Monad Trap

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    Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086D3XGR7 Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/meg8Qg “Somehow, I thought there would be more for a god to do.” “Why husband, you always seem busy enough,” Petra replied. “Those are my own projects, and I know I spend more time than you would prefer on them.  But I presumed the position of being a god came…

  • Excerpt from The Fountains of Aescalon

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    Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C5H3Z4Q Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bwWMgY The first thing I remember was a sword in my hand and a corpse in front of me. The corpse looked human, but wasn’t.  Judging strictly by outer appearance, it would have passed.  Looking inside at the organs and genetic material, a star dragon was more closely related.  At…

  • Excerpt from Meeting The Morelli

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    Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHWGLT2B Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/u/bzYwqn “Looks like they’re concerned about contamination,” I told the four Morelli, “We’ve been asked to drop you on your planet’s outer moon.  Sergeant Mitrisa has inquired about a flight path, but she can’t get a response for at least another two hours thirty.” At that moment, Ambassador DeelKonosh entered…

  • Excerpt from Measure Of Adulthood

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    Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW9288ZF Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/m2KD0G “Esteban Scimtar di Juarez, you have passed the threshold of adulthood.  There is no return to childhood in this life.” The ceremony was pure show.  My eldest had wielded most of the trappings of adulthood for years.  The few deficiencies had already been rectified within a second of his…

  • Excerpt from The End Of Childhood

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    Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SKN2Y6Y Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/mKpGlP It never begins dramatically. It started on an ordinary day, when I’d been doing the perfectly ordinary thing of gathering evidence for a hearing.  The case I was investigating had to do with the tort of infringement.  In this case the plaintiff was alleging the defendant was generating excessive…

  • Excerpt from The Price Of Power

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    Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KTF1YGW Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/31xj8a Ilras, quit trying to squirt your sister with ketchup.  The inverse square law is on her side. But mom!  I’m just trying to teach her defense!  Meanwhile, baby Imtara giggled in delight at frustrating her brother’s dastardly plan. Dear, even if she was asleep, she’d have plenty of time…

  • Excerpt from The Invention Of Motherhood

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    Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075X4L8ZJ Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bzaevD Later, Asto and I were in our quarters.  He’s a tall, thin Guardian; the body type sometimes known as ‘hound’ on Earth.  Six feet six, broad shoulders, long legs, and thin as a whip, except for tiny little bulges here and there, intended to give him a reserve of…