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Wyrd Worlds II
(short stories)
Various Authors
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![]() This ebook contains a bumper 19 short stories from 17 independent authors from around the world, encompassing a wide range of science fiction and fantasy. Here lurks tales of the future, steampunk and time travel; of magical realms and fantastical deeds; and of things so weird they defy categorisation. The original Wyrd Worlds rode upon a new wave of indie collaborations; and now we're back! See also: Wyrd Worlds: Battlefield 1066. Stories by: Steph Bennion, Ubiquitous Bubba, A.L. Butcher, Clark Graham, Ross Harrison, L.J. Hick, Josh Karaczewski, Peter Lean, Stan Morris, Michael Puttonen, Laurel A. Rockefeller, Neil Shooter, Douglas Swartz, Barbara G.Tarn, Zach Tyo, L.L. Watkin and Victoria Zigler. Cover artwork by: Ross Harrison (First published 20 September 2014; approx 98,000 words. [details]) |
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Contents
1 | HORIZON - KIRA: PART 2 by
Ross Harrison It was just her and a boy, alone. Kira had to concentrate on keeping him alive. |
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2 | THE VISITOR by
Neil Shooter Time is relative. On an ordinary blustery British night an extraordinary visitor comes. |
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3 | A WORLD TAKEN OVER by
Douglas Schwartz He had conquered the world. How much more effort was it going to be to unconquer it? |
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4 | THE JOY OF SOCKS by
A.L. Butcher The imps knew what they wanted from the Bringer of Offerings... |
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5 | THE COLONIAL PLAGUE by
L.L. Watkin It's been years since Missra was executed and now her soul is shut away, but being the most powerful magical healer of her generation gets her out of the box occasionally... |
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6 | HUMANITY WAS DELICIOUS by
Ubiquitous Bubba Imagine you were the werewolf who ate the last human. What will you eat now? More importantly, how are you going to get off this alien ship? |
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7 | MY LAST DAY by
Zach Tyo Disaster awaits the Earth, yet an unexpected gift brings joy. |
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8 | GUISARME by
Barbara G. Tarn Members of the Assassins' Guild can be as honorable as anyone. They might be trained to kill, but they're just people with loved ones to protect and avenge. |
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9 | ROCK OF AGES by Steph Bennion (a
Worlds of Hollow Moon short
story) Letters from the past were hidden for a reason. But breaking into the secure facility was child's play compared to an unexpected family reunion... |
10 | THE DINER by
Michael Puttonen Sometimes a life lived hasn't been lived at all. |
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11 | HOMELESS by Neil
Shooter Winter didn't end, but his world has. Is he completely alone? In a world gone cold, what can keep the spark of life shining? |
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12 | GY by Peter Lean The Book was the knowledge that could open the door, but the worlds had been separated for a reason... |
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13 | IRREVOCABLE by
L.J. Hick He did not accept finality. All he knew was that he had to change the impossible. |
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14 | POISONED GROUND by
Laurel A. Rockefeller Lady Abbess Cara of house Ten-Ar must find the cause of a mysterious plague of illnesses before it is too late for the city of Nan-li... |
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15 | SASHA AND THE COLLARED GIRL
by Stan Morris The man was willing to trade his prized possession, but she was already lost. |
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16 | QUEST FOR THE PURPLE PUMPKIN
by Victoria Zigler A glittering surprise in the woods leads Polly to another world, where just being human is punishable by death... |
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17 | FREE WILL by A.L.
Butcher The other Grand Wizards thought Leonardos eccentric, indulging the little World Marble like a favoured child... |
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18 | AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE by
Clark Graham A tabloid journalist discovers his outlandish stories just might be true. |
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19 | CHANGING EVERYTHING by
Josh Karaczewski Two men set out into one of America's roughest neighborhoods as one piece of a grand plan to change everything... |
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Author Biographies
STEPH BENNION
Steph Bennion is a writer, civil servant and occasional
musician, born and bred in the Black Country but now living in the big,
bad city of London, England. Her witty space-opera mysteries for young
adults and adults young-at-heart are written as a reaction to the dearth
of alternative heroes amidst bookshelves swamped by tales of the
supernatural. Paw-Prints Of The Gods, a sequel to her debut
novel Hollow Moon, was published in 2013.
> Interview: Pebble
In The Still Waters blog.
> Website: The
Worlds Of Hollow Moon
UBIQUITOUS BUBBA
Ubiquitous Bubba spends a significant amount of time
surrounded by imaginary characters from bizarre universes. He's been
known to hold conversations with animals, inanimate objects and food,
which frequently diverge into philosophy, speculations on the nature of
Reality/Unreality, and the proper role of cheese in society. He enjoys
relaxing at home with his wife and three kids. His debut novel, Reality
Challenged, was published in 2012.
> Website: UbiquitousBubba.wordpress.com
A.L. BUTCHER
Alexandra Butcher is the British author of the Light
Beyond the Storm Chronicles fantasy series and several short
stories in the fantasy and fantasy romance genre, including the mythic Tales
of Erana. She is an avid reader and creator of worlds, a poet and
a dreamer. When she is grounded in the real world she likes science,
natural history, history and monkeys.
> Interview: Creative
Barbwire blog.
> Website: libraryoferana.wordpress.com
CLARK GRAHAM
Clark Graham is a writer of fantasy. His book Dwarves of Elvenshore
started it all. Now there are six books in the Elvenshore series
and a standalone novel, Slayer of the Osgarth.
> Website: elvenshore.blogspot.com
ROSS HARRISON
Ross Harrison is a writer of, primarily, science fantasy.
He has been writing since childhood without thought of publication. When
the idea was planted by his grandmother to do so, it grew rapidly, and
here sits the fruit. The NEXUS series is his main body of work, but he
has made brief forays into steampunk with Kira, and noir
thriller with Acts of Violence. Ross lives on the UK/Eire
border in Ireland, hoping the rain will help his hair grow back.
> Website: www.ross-harrison.com
L.J. HICK
L.J. Hick is an author, guitarist and former advisor to major banks.
Born in Birmingham, he now lives in Warwickshire, England with his wife
and three children. His debut novel Gods and Monsters is the
first book in his series The Last Days of Planet Earth, which
concerns myths, religion, the environment and politics, delivered in a
humorous style. The second book in the series is due for release later
this year.
> Website: thelastdaysofplanetearth.co.uk
JOSH KARACZEWSKI
Josh Karaczewski sometimes feels like he is the only writer
living in San Leandro, California, but that's only until he can retire
somewhere warmer. His stories have been published in several literary
journals, while his books include the seriocomic novel Alexander
Murphy's Home for Wayward Celebrities and My Governor's
House and other stories. Until the riches pour in, he will
continue forcing high school students to read, write and think.
> Website: www.oralrandomly.blogspot.com
PETER LEAN
Peter Lean is the pen-name used by the author for his
fiction works. Jurist in 'real life' and author of several law books in
his native Italian, he started recently to write fiction. He has
published a number of ebooks, including his collection of short stories
Photographs: A Journey Through Space, Time, and More. His debut
novel The Guns Of Napoleon, based on his short story that
appeared in Wyrd Worlds, was published 2013.
> Website: www.goodreads.com/book/show/18009911-photographs
STAN MORRIS
Stan Morris was born in Linwood, California. At age
twenty-one he moved to New Mexico, where he met the teenager he later
married. Now with two sons, they have since moved to Maui where he
retired after years of assembling computers. He is the author of seven
books: Surviving the Fog, Surviving the Fog - Kathy's
Recollections, Sarah's Spaceship Adventure, The
Colors of Passion and Love, Sam's Winnings, Kate's
Movie Star, and Amy's Hero.
> Website: sites.google.com/site/stanandrene/home
MICHAEL PUTTONEN
Michael Puttonen is a Minnesota native and author of young adult
adventure/fantasy novels, short stories, and children's tales. His Sanyel
series tells the story of a gifted teenage girl born into a
dangerous world. Seven and One Tales for Young Readers is a
collection of thought-provoking stories for young children. Michael sees
life from a philosophical angle, loves all things anomalous, and dabbles
as a cartoonist, albeit one with debatable artistic aptitude.
> Interview: Creative
Barbwire blog.
> Website: www.michlputtonen.com
LAUREL A. ROCKEFELLER
Born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska USA, Laurel A. Rockefeller is an
amateur scientist and amateur historian known for her lavish
world-building in her The Peers of Beinan science-fiction
series and her meticulous research in her Legendary Women of World
History series. In 2014 she released Good-bye A672E92
Quintus, Catherine de Valois, and Boudicca:
Britain's Queen of the Iceni, now available as an audio books
from Amazon, iTunes and Audible.
> Interview: Creative
Barbwire blog.
> Website: peersofbeinan.wordpress.com
DOUGLAS SCHWARTZ
Douglas Schwartz lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two children.
He funnels his creativity into fiction writing and tabletop game design.
Checkered Scissors, his first novel, was published in October
2013, and he has a short-story collection due out very soon. His quirky,
imaginative writing style has been described as the "They Might Be
Giants of prose". An avid Whovian, Doug also considers himself a
chronological time traveler.
> Interview: Creative
Barbwire blog.
> Website: www.checkeredscissors.com
NEIL SHOOTER
Neil Shooter grew up in northern England and now lives in a
quiet suburban corner of Ontario, Canada. After the stunning success he
has not had over the past eighteen months of self-publishing, Neil finds
himself limited by reality, but escapes whenever possible into one
fantastical realm or another.
> Website: www.smashwords.com/profile/view/neilshooter
BARBARA G. TARN
Barbara G. Tarn is a writer, sometimes artist, mostly a
world-creator and storyteller. She's been building her world of Silvery
Earth for a number of years: stories, comprise shorts, novels
and graphic novels. Her Silvery Earth novella The Hooded Man received
a honorable mention at the Writers of the Future contest. Used to
multiple projects - a graphic novel is always on the side of the prose -
she writes, draws, blogs and ignores her day job.
> Interview: Library
of
Erana blog.
> Website: creativebarbwire.wordpress.com
ZACH TYO
Zach Tyo is an American author from the Ohio Valley area. Though his
first loves are his wife and son, he found a third two years ago in
writing. Having been an avid reader all his life he dove head first into
writing 'the great American novel', but quickly discovered he had no
idea what that meant. His short-story collection The Reaper's Opus,
tales connected via a love for a happy ending wrapped in tragedy, was
published in October 2014.
> Interview: Creative
Barbwire and Library
of
Erana blogs.
> Website: ztyoauthor.com
L.L. WATKIN
L.L. Watkin is the pen name for writing partnership Liz and
Louise Smith, two sisters from the North of England who have been
writing fantasy, paranormal and science fiction for nearly ten years. To
date they have published four novels and several short stories in two
series Leviathan and The Handmaiden, plus numerous
other short stories. As well as writing they publish a couple of
fanzines, blog a bit and enjoy spoiling their rabbit, Buzz Lightyear.
> Website: www.smashwords.com/profile/view/LLWatkin
VICTORIA ZIGLER
Victoria Zigler is a blind author of children's fiction and
poetry. When she remembers to spend time in the real world, it's with
her hubby and pets, though she sometimes indulges in other interests
such as crafts, music, movies, figure and role-playing games, and doing
a little cooking and baking. Victoria was born in the shadow of the
Black Mountains in Wales and has been writing since she knew how. She
became a self-published author in 2012.
> Interview: Creative
Barbwire and Zach
Tyo
Author blogs.
> Website: www.zigler.co.uk
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