Marked Territory – Snippet 07

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Marked Territory – Snippet 07 “That doesn’t affect me one way or the other, of course. But there’s the risk that if you get poked you come on down to see me. Now I’ve got a big damn alley cat with a grudge turning up on my turf looking...

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 07

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Serpent Daughter – Snippet 07 “Then we must go to Philadelphia, and perfect the world.” Chapter Two Sarah looked upon the veil of her goddess’s temple and saw. She looked from the inside, a vantage point she had held for weeks. She sat on the...

The Portals Of Hell – Snippet 07

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The Portals Of Hell – Snippet 07 Chapter 4: Decisions The General’s coaches in the lead, the wagons slowly left the churchyard, no longer a collection of worshippers but a silent funeral procession. Hoping to remain unobtrusive, especially to his family,...

Heart Of The World – Snippet 06

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Heart Of The World – Snippet 06 The crash brought him up out of his sleep like a shocked bird. It was dark. The moon shone down into the courtyard in a silver flood but the far wall was in a pit of shadow. Something was shrieking, across the way, venting tiny...

Marked Territory – Snippet 06

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Marked Territory – Snippet 06 “He tried to kill me, Bear!” Swipes protested, all but screeching as he made his way to his feet. “Scraps will tell you, he saw the whole thing!” Bear glanced over at Scraps, who had a scrape from how...

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 06

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Serpent Daughter – Snippet 06 Mesh nodded. The dagger’s blade was pocked with lines of dots, forged into the metal. “So long ago that many years fails as a description. We were lords of the Ohio so long ago that the stars were different. The children...

The Portals Of Hell – Snippet 06

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The Portals Of Hell – Snippet 06 His comment finally wiped the sadness from her face. Her brow wrinkled in disapproval, her mouth twisted like Aliceia’s when she scolded him. “You should not think such of yourself. Peto considered you a great friend....

Marked Territory – Snippet 05

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Marked Territory – Snippet 05 I glanced over and saw a bright orange tabby lounging on a stack of boxes just beneath a hot air vent. Her coat was thick, but it had that rough look that told me she took care of it mostly on her own. Her eyes were a sparkling...

The Portals Of Hell – Snippet 05

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The Portals Of Hell – Snippet 05 Chapter 3: A Revelation The GranMalo towered over them all, more than eight meters tall, and so close that Davin could smell the rotten remains of its past butchery, hear the wind of its nostrils, feel the darkness of this...

Heart Of The World – Snippet 05

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Heart Of The World – Snippet 05 Made of fitted stones, the bank sloped easily at first but then turned steep, and he slipped and slid most of the way, grabbing for handholds on the rough wall. Halfway down the dry stone vanished under slick wet green weed,...

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 05

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Serpent Daughter – Snippet 05 The giant frowned. “That was an error of judgment. When he sneaked into my camp, I believed I had been outwitted. I jumped to the conclusion that he, and you, were my enemies. I know now that I was mistaken.” “That...