Sister Sophia Mermaid, the Drifter, and the Tea Shell

The Old Mermaids built the Tea Shell on the edge of the Old Mermaid Sanctuary where they had made their homes since the Old Sea dried up & they had.
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This page contains affiliate links and advertising. See the full disclosure. I believe in her characters so readily that someti Bus driver Ed Samuels is tired of working overtime just because someone is killing women in Ann Arbor. Why is it his problem? One night he refuses to wait for a woman who is trying to get to the bus stop. The next morning he hears on the news that an She does it again with Queendom: Feast of the Saints, an epic saga of empire and family brought to the brink of destruction.

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An impulsive ex-cop with her share of troubles, Katie Kelly retreats to Beauty Falls, the small Pacific Northwest town where she spent her summers as a teen until the night she and five of her friends went into the woods and only four came out. Her name is Emily. She talks to the Weather, stops Fire, and possesses healing hands.

Emily and her father move out West where even freaks of science or nature can make a life and a fortune. Maggie lives on the edge of Tucson where she edits technical manuals and creates medicine from desert plants until one morning when she hears her dead dog barking, a stranger shows up in her driveway, and an unexplainable rift appears in the land, se Brooke McMurphy is having one helluva week.

Jane wants to save the world; Vic does not.

Sister Sophia Mermaid, the Drifter, and the Tea Shell

Jane is an angst-ridden woman; Vic is a laid back dog. Jane seeks to unleash the powers of love, compassion, and justice; Vic favors visits to the When her beloved parents die in a carriage accident near their plantation in Virginia, year-old Callie Carter comes home from France to discover her loathsome aunt and uncle have taken up residence in her home and are now her legal guardians.

Enter the enchanting and exotic world of Kim Antieau's imagination in these eight stories inspired by classic folk and fairy tales. This collection includes the following stories: Calder moves from Boston to the Oregon coast to be alone and mourn the recent death of his wife, Tara. Only he is not alone: Tara is haunting him. At first this comforts him.

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But then things begin to change. When the widower Ebbers volunteers to participate in a drug experiment to enhance memory, all Ebbers wants is to remember his life with his wife, even though the scientists warn him that he may be getting more than he bargained for. Samuel and Richard have been together for centuries, bound by the disease that makes them vampires. One evening, they meet their new neighbor, Caroline, and everything changes. This short story was originally published in Tomorrow: Peter Gibson wants to be alone.

He leaves his girlfriend and his job in California to become the great American writer living in a small town in New England. Star is tired of her life with her mother on the carnival circuit.

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Her father is long gone after beating both Star and her mother some years back. The Old Sea dried up and the Old Mermaids washed up on the shores of the New Desert and created a new home and a new life. In the midst of all of this one night, Sister Faye Mermaid cannot sleep and wonders what this new life will mean for her.

India Lake loves the wild and she will do anything to protect it—including taking off her clothes. India Lake is in the middle of a full blown mid-life crisis. Her love life is stalled, to say the least. And her boss forces her to take a two-month On a vacation in Mexico, Maggie has no patience for her fearful brother-in-law until one night when she witnesses something that changes her life forever. Now she is afraid, too. But will facing her fears be the beginning of her healing or the end of Things started going badly for Anna after the car accident.

For one thing, she started noticing all the strange things happening in her community: People were killing one another. Mara is dying, the victim of a painful disease that has fused her bones together. Only in free fall can she move without pain. As a zero-G dancer on a space station, Mara meets a mysterious Japanese gardener and his cat, Magic.

Queen of the Boneyard

People say he can fix Cully and Jake welcome into their home David, a refugee fleeing from the atrocities in El Salvador. Cully feels an inexplicable kinship with David who has lost most of his family in the bloody war. But is he safe with them on the Oregon coast, so far Her mother and grandmother try to get her to eat something, but she refuses. She is not her mother or her grandmother, despite appearances to the contrary. Adam loves Lina and Lina loves Adam. Unfortunately, Lina is one of three personalities inhabiting the body of Teresa who is growing increasingly unhappy with her life.

She wants Lina and Nick the third personality gone. On top of that, Lina keeps t Kate Hein keeps hearing someone calling her name in the old farmhouse where she lives alone. Is the place haunted or is something wrong with her? One night a group of ghostly figures shimmer into view. Scientists in Siberia uncover the 2, year old frozen mummy of a tattooed priestess. This mummy has the same genetic material as American archaeologist Ursula Smith whose mother disappeared in Siberia 30 years earlier. Ursula travels from the U.

Faith lives alone on the Oregon coast after the tragic death of her husband Jack. She is like a ghost in her own home until a strange young man shows up on her doorstep. This short story first appeared in Weird Tales. The same woman he now sees everywhere he goes? Calder moves from Boston to the Oregon coast to be alone and mourn the recent death of his wife, Tara. Only he is not alone: Tara is haunting him. At first this comforts him. But then things begin to change. The Old Sea dried up and the Old Mermaids washed up on the shores of the New Desert and created a new home and a new life.

In the midst of all of this one night, Sister Faye Mermaid cannot sleep and wonders what this new life will mean for her. When the widower Ebbers volunteers to participate in a drug experiment to enhance memory, all Ebbers wants is to remember his life with his wife, even though the scientists warn him that he may be getting more than he bargained for. Samuel and Richard have been together for centuries, bound by the disease that makes them vampires. One evening, they meet their new neighbor, Caroline, and everything changes.

This story was originally published in Tomorrow: Peter Gibson wants to be alone. He leaves his girlfriend and his job in California to become the great American writer living in a small town in New England. This story was originally published in the anthology Doom City edited by Charles L. Star is tired of her life with her mother on the carnival circuit. Her father is long gone after beating both Star and her mother some years back. Sarah panics when she has a dream about her young client, Paul, who is in therapy after he saw his mother kill herself. What if she is really like her father and brother, both of them child-molesters?

Sarah must learn to free herself from her past so she can save herself and young Paul. This was originally published in the anthology Borderlands 2. Members of the mission to the planet Perez need to determine if the sloth-like native Perans are intelligent. Everyone except Beth, the mission translator, wants to finish the job and move on. Is it too late to save Beth? Faith lives alone on the Oregon coast after the tragic death of her husband Jack. She is like a ghost in her own home until a strange young man shows up on her doorstep.

Mara is dying, the victim of a painful disease that has fused her bones together. Only in free fall can she move without pain. As a zero-G dancer on a space station, Mara meets a mysterious Japanese gardener and his cat, Magic. People say he can fix anything. Can he heal Mara or is it too late? Cully and Jake welcome into their home David, a refugee fleeing from the atrocities in El Salvador.

Cully feels an inexplicable kinship with David who has lost most of his family in the bloody war. But is he safe with them on the Oregon coast, so far from his homeland? This was originally published in the Clinton Street Quarterly. As she follows the lives of these women who have been dead a hundred years or more, she begins to come alive again. This story was originally published in Bending the Landscape: Fantasy , edited by Nicola Griffith.

Things started going badly for Anna after the car accident. For one thing, she started noticing all the strange things happening in her community: People were killing one another. On a vacation in Mexico, Maggie has no patience for her fearful brother-in-law until one night when she witnesses something that changes her life forever. Now she is afraid, too. But will facing her fears be the beginning of her healing or the end of her life?

Kate Hein keeps hearing someone calling her name in the old farmhouse where she lives alone. Is the place haunted or is something wrong with her? One night a group of ghostly figures shimmer into view. Adam loves Lina and Lina loves Adam.


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Unfortunately, Lina is one of three personalities inhabiting the body of Teresa who is growing increasingly unhappy with her life. She wants Lina and Nick the third personality gone. On top of that, Lina keeps talking about her long dead love Russell. Everyone seems haunted by their pasts.

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Or is something more ghostly going on? This story originally appeared in Twilight Zone Magazine. I lived in Bandon, Oregon at the time and the great fires there inspired this story. Her mother and grandmother try to get her to eat something, but she refuses.