Presenting: The Raven's Toll. An ancient being who almost destroyed the world, is now helping the humans rebuild it - but when he runs out of options to save the people he loves, can he keep his destructive powers in check?
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Where Entertainment and Shenanigans come to play with each other as your host, Tyler Ortega brings a new person (or his ol’ self) in every week to talk about whatever is happening in the Entertainment Industry, from Movies to TV Shows to Gaming, etc.
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Explore fantastical lands with Far-Fetched Fables! Do you sometimes wonder how things could be different, should be different? Do you feel the call of the bizarre and surreal? Each week, Nicola Seaton-Clark explores a little further into the rare and mysterious lands which lie just outside our familiar reality, forging paths of wonder, magic and delight! Podcasting the finest in genre fiction, Far-Fetched Fables puts the “wonders” in the District of Wonders podcast network. Like all shows in ...
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The Garden And The Seed - September 2020
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A story about growth, owning your power...and what happens if you don't. Written and produced by: R.E.M. Verberg | Narration: Diana Moore | Text editing: Louisa Mitchell | Music: Alan Spiljak (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Alan_Spiljak) Vote for next month's story at remverberg.com or Insta @r.e.m.verberg!…
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The Raven's Toll - Episode 14 | FINALE
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Finale: The Weight Of Living On. In which The Raven makes a difficult but profound choice, and not all hope is lost. Written and produced by: R.E.M. Verberg | Editing: Louisa Mitchell | Narration: Diana Moore | Music: Alex Lew Visit @r.e.m.verberg for a GIVEAWAY!!De către remverberg
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A Bittersweet Encounter. The Raven deals with the aftermath of his destructive outburst, and says the hardest goodbye of his life. Written and produced by: R.E.M. Verberg | Editing: Louisa Mitchell | Narration: Diana Moore | Music: Alex Lew Visit @r.e.m.verberg for a GIVEAWAY!! Or go to remverberg.com…
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Episode 12: Lost In The Fire. In this episode, The Raven is finally confronted with the consequences of his actions, as he lights the world around him on fire and the values he has tried to uphold for so long, literally go up in flames. Written and produced by: R.E.M. Verberg | Editing: Louisa Mitchell | Narration: Diana Moore | Music: Alex Lew rem…
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Episode 11: Spark To A Flame. In this episode, The Raven makes a decision that will not only irrevocably change his life, but also the lives of those around him. Written and produced by: R.E.M. Verberg | Editing: Louisa Mitchell | Narration: Diana Moore | Music: Alex Lew remverberg.comDe către remverberg
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Episode 10: The Descent. In this episode, we get further acquainted with Magoia Forest, and see exactly what it can do to The Raven... Written and produced by: R.E.M. Verberg | Editing: Louisa Mitchell | Narration: Diana Moore | Music: Alex Lew remverberg.comDe către remverberg
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Episode 9: Down Long-Forgotten Paths. In this episode, we deal with the fallout from last episode's battle, and discover a new and dangerous place... Written and produced by: R.E.M. Verberg | Editing: Louisa Mitchell | Narration: Diana Moore | Music: Alex Lew https://remverberg.comDe către remverberg
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Episode 8: A Perfect Storm. In this episode, we find ourselves in a battle that will put relationships to the test, and make The Raven cross a bridge he can't uncross... Written and produced by: R.E.M. Verberg | Editing: Louisa Mitchell | Narration: Diana Moore | Music: Alex Lew https://remverberg.com…
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Episode 7: Bad Dreams, Bad Memories. In this episode, the upcoming battles forces The Raven to confront not only his past, but also someone with a devious plan. Written and produced by: R.E.M. Verberg | Editing: Louisa Mitchell | Narration: Diana Moore | Music: Alex LewDe către remverberg
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Episode 6: All The Moving Parts. In this episode, Curas Laas steps up, but his actions are not without consequences... Written by: R.E.M. Verberg | Editing: Louisa Mitchell | Narration: R.E.M. Verberg | Music: Alex Lew For more information, please visit remverberg.comDe către remverberg
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Episode 5: Of Darkness And Light. In this episode we get to see another side to commander Curas Laas, but before The Raven can take advantage of it, fate pulls them in another direction yet again. Written by: R.E.M. Verberg | Editing: Louisa Mitchell | Narration: Diana Moore | Music: Alex Lew For more information, please visit remverberg.com…
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Episode 4: The Secrets Of Curas Laas. In this episode The Raven has an altercation with his new ward, one that reveals a secret and leads to an unexpected outcome... Written by: R.E.M. Verberg | Editing: Louisa Mitchell | Narration: Diana Moore | Music: Alex Lew For more information, please visit remverberg.com…
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In episode 3, we meet The Raven's new pupil...for better or worse. Written by: R.E.M. Verberg Editing: Louisa Mitchell Narration: Diana Moore Music: Alex Lew For more information, please visit remverberg.comDe către remverberg
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In episode 2, we learn why it is so important for The Raven to accept this new task - but also why accepting it goes against everything he stands for. Writing: R.E.M. Verberg Narration: Diana Moore Music: Alex Lew Press: https://www.whispersandwonder.com/2020/02/04/the-ravens-toll-episode-2-by-r-e-m-verberg/…
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Episode 1: The Raven's Dream. In this episode, The Raven is trying to deal with a recent loss when an old friend brings a rude awakening, and a surprise... For all information, go to https://remverberg.com Written by: R.E.M. Verberg | Narrated by: Diana Moore (dianamoorevoice@gmail.com) | Music: Alex Lew (lew.alexm@gmail.com)…
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The Raven's Toll - Series Trailer
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The Raven's Toll - a fantasy audiodrama coming January 18th 2020! News: remverberg-writingfam Site: remverberg.com Twitter: @RemVerberg Facebook: https://facebook.com/REMVerberg All rights reserved R.E.M. Verberg2020De către remverberg
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Before We Wink Out Of Existence
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'Before We Wink Out Of Existence' is a short fantasy story about an enchanted man, who is forced to watch from a window as his former fiance gets ready for her wedding to a new man. Written by: R.E.M. Verberg Read by: Diana Moore All rights reserved 2020. Website: https://www.remverberg.comDe către remverberg
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When Brian's sister dies, he is forced to ask the question: do we have more to fear from the living or the dead? Written by: R.E.M. Verberg Read by: Diana Moore All rights reserved 2020. Website: https://www.remverberg.com Twitter: @RemVerberg Facebook: https://facebook.com/REMVerbergDe către remverberg
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The Turning is an eerie, fantastical, ten-minute story about the things people will do for love. Written by: R.E.M. Verberg Read by: Kayla Ringelspaugh All rights reserved 2020. Website: https://www.remverberg.com Twitter: @RemVerberg Facebook: https://facebook.com/REMVerbergDe către remverberg
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'Michael' is a short suspense/horror story with fantasy elements, about what happens when dead people refuse to die. Written by: R.E.M. Verberg Read by: Diana Moore All rights reserved 2020. Website: https://www.remverberg.com Twitter: @RemVerberg Facebook: https://facebook.com/REMVerbergDe către remverberg
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Introductions and what the future holds for this little ol' experiment.
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FarFetchedFables No 188 H L Fullerton
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“Too Poor to Sin” by H.L. Fullerton (Originally published in Mysterion.) Grandfather squandered our family's fortune on forgiveness, forcing Father to enlist in the Legion and serve the angels. This was before he met Mother and they had me, though the angels' war still rages. Father doesn't say much about his years of service, except that it would'…
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FarFetchedFables No 187 Samuel Marzioli
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“Penelope's Song” by Samuel Marzioli (Originally published in The Third Spectral Book of Horror Stories.) Penelope gazed through her bedroom window, mesmerized by the motion of the night. Flowers trembled, grass ruffled and trees swayed, flailing their branches. The sight of it unsettled her. In fifteen years she hadn’t learned much about the world…
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FarFetchedFables No 186 Michael Rimar
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“Avarice” by Michael Rimar (Originally published in Darwin's Evolutions.) Shadow blocked the glare of Uttum’s twin suns. Saleem looked up at the source, a man dressed in robes pale as bleached bone. “Offering for the poor?” Saleem kept his tone weak and pitiful, offering his wicker basket to the stranger. “I have more than offerings for you, my you…
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FarFetchedFables No 185 Greg van Eekhout
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“In the Late December” by Greg van Eekhout (Originally published in Strange Horizons.) Here's a secret of the North Pole: Santa powders his hands with talc before donning his thick red mittens. It is a small secret, true, but some would give anything to steal even that. A secret is a detail, and here in the late December, a detail is as precious as…
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FarFetchedFables No 184 Russell Hemmell
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“M” by Russell Hemmell (Originally published in Not One of Us.) We look like them, Christian thought, admiring the fresco in the charnel house and its ghastly figures, scary and eerily beautiful. He adjusted the heavy cloak over his shoulders. The evening was damp and cold, and he was tired after a whole day on the move. But he could not avoid that…
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FarFetchedFables No 183 Paul R Hardy
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“Customer Service Hobgoblin” by Paul R. Hardy (Originally published in Unidentified Funny Objects 5.) Beeep. "Good morning, you're through to Robin. How may I receive your prayer?" "Oh. Hello? My name is Bishop Augusto de Figueroa. Am I speaking to God?" "No, sir, my name's Robin. How can I --" "Well, young man, I wanted to talk to God. You see it'…
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FarFetchedFables No 182 Karen Traviss
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“The Man Who Did Nothing” by Karen Traviss (Originally published in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection.) Hursley Rise, May 2 There was a boy – five, maybe six – sitting on half a discarded mattress by the kerb as Jeff drove down the road. At first he thought the child was trying to open a bottle of pop, but the closer h…
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FarFetchedFables No 181 Judith Field
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“Psychopomps” by Judith Field(Originally published in The Colored Lens, Summer 2014.)Mark’s next door neighbour and business partner Pat kept telling him that power flowed through his veins. He took a breath and closed his eyes, trying to will the power back out again and into the ash wand in his outstretched hand. He pointed it at Pat’s door. A na…
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FarFetchedFables No 180 Dave Smeds
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“The Tavern at the Ford” by Dave Smeds(Originally published in Sword and Sorceress XXVIII.)Until that awful night, Azure had always assumed she would live out her entire life in thevillage. That’s how it had been for generations.Grandpa had shared the history one day while standing with her on the old stone bridge.“There used to be a ford there,” h…
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FarFetchedFables No 179 K G Anderson
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“Unraveling” by K.G. Anderson(Originally published in Triangulation: Beneath the Surface.)"Sarah -- he's using you!" My voice rose into the whine my daughter loathed, but I couldn't stop. I pressed the phone to my ear. "You're 16. I absolutely forbid -- "My runaway daughter informed me that she hated me."Have fun with the old witches," she said, an…
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FarFetchedFables No 178 Evan Dicken
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“Mouth of the Jaguar” by Evan Dicken(Originally published in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #20.)Hummingbird was to be the final sacrifice of the day. The man before her struggled on a raisedstone slab, chest heaving as a flock of blood-spattered priests pinned his arms and legs. Sunlight glitteredon the Cazonci's obsidian dagger--curved like a jaguar's …
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FarFetchedFables No 177 David Morrell
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Main Story: “Perchance to Dream” by David Morrell(Originally published in Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy.)Dr. Baker.Dr. Baker.He came to my office on a Friday afternoon. Tall, slender, and sandy-haired, he had a thin, aristocratic face that might have been handsome if it weren’t so haggard. His eyes looked puffy. Red streaked their whites. I w…
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FarFetchedFables No 176 Donald Jacob Uitvlugt
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“The Hour of the Rat” by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt(Originally published in Cirsova Magazine #1.)shigururu ya winter rainnezumi no wataru a mouse runskoto no ue across the koto-- Yosa Buson (1716-1783)Nezumi's heart pounded as she pressed against the wall. She willed herself to be as invisible as the night all around her. She put a hand over her mouth s…
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FarFetchedFables No 175 Jakob Drud
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“The Demi-Arcanist's Will” by Jakob Drud(Originally published in The Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Volume 2.)The cabinet was all but invisible in the fumes, except in the spot where Jarn Dinaris wove his grounding seam into Master Elosivan's seam of transmission. There the metal hissed and glowed in dark purples as they wove the com…
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FarFetchedFables No 174 Molly N Moss and Khalidaah Muhammad-Ali
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Flash Fiction: “The Banshee Behind Beamon's Bakery” by Khalidaah Muhammad-Ali(Originally published in Diabolical Plots #21.)Most nights the alley behind Beamon’s Bakery is just an alley.The street lamp bleeds piss yellow light, casting jagged shadows around the overflowing dumpster and discarded boxes. The walls are tagged with gang signs, claiming…
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FarFetchedFables No 173 Sarah L Byrne
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“Princess Cosima and the 1,000 Cats” by Sarah L. Byrne(Originally published in Betwixt #4.)"Provide ships or sails adapted to the heavenly breezes, and there will be some who will not fear even that void." -- Johannes Kepler, 1610The red palace was home to a thousand cats. Or so people said. Princess Cosima, twenty, beautiful and bored, walked thro…
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FarFetchedFables No 172 Hal Duncan
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Main Story: “The Tower of Morning's Bones” by Hal Duncan(Originally published in Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy.)“Once upon a time, the land of Shuber and Hamazi,Many tongued Sumer, the great Land of princeship’s divine laws,Uri, the land having all that is appropriate,The land Martu, resting in security,The whole universe, the people …
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FarFetchedFables No 171 Tracy Canfield
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“The Seal of Sulaymaan” by Tracy Canfield(Originally published in Fantasy Magazine, July 2010.)Back when there were other ifriit to talk to, I’d tell them Morocco was as far as you can get from Mecca without leaving civilization. In Agadir, with its casinos and five-star hotels and nightclubs filled with Moroccan tourists sporting European fashions…
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FarFetchedFables No 170 Dennis Mombauer
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“The Breeding Dust” by Dennis Mombauer(Originally published in Outliers of Speculative Fiction.)Silent, angular houses with white plaster, a sand-suffocated well and a couple of stunted palms huddled together on the low ground, a once bustling city that only the ghostly desert wind inhabited now.The sun gleamed down without mercy, hanging in the sk…
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FarFetchedFables No 169 Michelle Ann King
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“Where There's Magic” by Michelle Ann King(Originally published in Kaleidotrope, April 2016.)The witch had a favourite saying: where there's life, there's magic. There was a second part -- where there's magic, there's death -- but she usually kept that to herself.She placed the newborn into the father's arms. He gazed upon the babe with wonder, the…
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FarFetchedFables No 168 Robert J Santa and Tonya Liburd
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"“Princess Lily's Wedding” by Robert J. Santa(Originally published in Blood, Blade & Thruster.)"I love him, Daddy!"King Frederick breathed deeply. It had been a very long conversation with his youngest child, punctuated by much pouting and exasperated sighing and stomping of pretty feet. Frederick stood over her while she held her face in her hands…
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FarFetchedFables No 167 Alter S Reiss
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"“By Appointment to the Throne” by Alter S. Reiss(Originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies #155.)Getting up early enough to open a kitchen hurts. Leaving a warm bed before second watch makes your head ache, and you can feel the chill going from the cobbles through your feet and into your soul. When it's wet on top of the cold, it's the neare…
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FarFetchedFables No 166 Scott Huggins
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"“Phoenix for the Amateur Chef” by Scott Huggins(Originally published in Sword and Sorceress 30.)The phoenix fell.Its sobbing death cry silenced by a coat of ravening flame, it corkscrewed to earth, bleeding dirty white fire across the dusk.What struck the cliff face above our heads was a ball of charred meat. We ducked the searing gobbet of flesh.…
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FarFetchedFables No 165 Valjeanne Jeffers and Ed Ahern
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"“The Sickness” by Valjeanne Jeffers(Originally published in Griots: Sisters of the Spear.)The Bini warriors crouched in the high grass of the savanna. They'd passed the Fula borders a mile back, and now were a hundred yards from the Adobe mud city. At the forefront they were armed with sword and shield, behind them the archers readied their bows.G…
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FarFetchedFables No 164 Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
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"“The Centaur's Daughter” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam(Originally published in A cappella Zoo.)As a little girl I never understood my father’s night self. It’s hard to be a kid whose father is two people. He changed every day with the sky. I cried at sunrise. I had trouble sleeping. Still do, and I’ve had seventeen years to process my father’s differen…
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FarFetchedFables No 163 Douglas Smith
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"“Spirit Dance” by Douglas Smith(Originally published in Tesseracts 6, this work is the prequel story to Douglas's novel The Wolf at the End of the World.)In the beginning of things, men were as animals and animals as men. -- Cree legendVera made a warding sign as I entered the store, my hound Gelert trailing behind me. She pretended to wipe her ha…
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FarFetchedFables No 162 Michael Ezell
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"“Bones of a Righteous Man” by Michael Ezell(Originally published in Fantasy for Good.)-- Has the life of a righteous man been taken?-- We find that it has, Excellency.-- And what shall become of the killer?-- He shall carry the bones of the righteous man until their weight does cause his death.The setting sun reflected in a million rose-hued spark…
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FarFetchedFables No 161 Judith Field and Michelle Ann King
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"Flash Fiction: “Never Leave Me” by Michelle Ann King(Originally published at Daily Science Fiction.)Katrine grew up with the stories, she knew them as well as her own name. First there was true love's kiss, then the fair maiden became the radiant bride, and she lived happily ever after.But the stories all stopped there, and Katrine hadn't realized…
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FarFetchedFables No 160 Claire Davon and David Steffen
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"Flash Fiction: “Mysterious Ways” by David Steffen(Originally published in Uncle John's Flush Fiction Anthology.)The afterlife was arbitrary, Sam Fichtner decided. There was no Heaven or Hell, only one place. He'd had plenty of time to ponder since he crossed over. The Hereafter was filled with endless rows of clear domes like the one he occupied, …
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