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Overrush [A Retrievers Short Story] [MultiFormat]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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Wren Valere is a Retriever, a thief who uses magic to 'retrieve' items for her clients. Her motto is 'Get the Job Done.' But when she stumbles across a dead body during the execution of a job, something makes her think it might be more important to find out who killed the man--and *how.* With her partner Sergei, they investigate--and come up against a terrible, deadly secret... [Set in the 'Retrievers' universe.] 2004
Words: 6429 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Free Fall [Retrievers Series Book 5] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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 Nothing in life is free. Even if you steal it.... The Cosa Nostradamus is in disarray; the Truce holding violence in check has been broken. Magical Manhattan is at war, and Wren Valere is left without her partner/lover Sergei, whose past loyalties keep him from her side just when she needs him the most. Hoping to keep herself occupied, Wren takes a job--but what should have been an ordinary Retrieval instead forces her to realize that it is time to do more. It is time for the Cosa to take the ba... more info>>
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Palimpsest [MultiFormat]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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A fantasy caper story, it features Wren Valere, a thief, and her business partner Sergei Didier, as they race to complete two different jobs which get tangled in a complicated sort of double-cross that only magic can undo... 2004
Words: 6092 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Dispossession [MultiFormat]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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A murder mystery, a ghost story, a cat-and-mouse chase, a love story ... or maybe none of the above but with elements of them all. We'll leave it to the reader to decide. 2004
Words: 5341 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Curse the Dark [Retrievers Series Book 2] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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Once more Wren Valere's game plan has taken an unexpected direction. She'd agreed to a bargain with one supersecret magic-watching outfit to protect her and her partner on their last job. But now the Silence is trying to wedge them apart. On the one hand, ever since she and Sergei began to talk about their "relationship," things have been tricky. On the other, though? Well, no one better try to stand between Wren and Sergei when danger is near! So now they are off to Italy in search of a missing... more info>>
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Along Came a Spider [MultiFormat]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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There's nothing more horrifying than something waiting in the darkness while you sleep. Unless it's having an older sibling... 1997
Words: 3113 - Reading Time: 8-12 min.
Category: Horror
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Sleepwork [MultiFormat]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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Somewhere in the southwestern United States, there's a school that gives very unusual homework--but no matter how magical the subject matter, teenagers will still be teenagers. And Jay Jormungander didn't see why they had to follow all those stupid rules... 2003
Words: 4003 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
Category: Fantasy
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The Road Taken [MultiFormat]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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A young wizard finds more than she bargained for when she cleans up after her murdered predecessor ... and learns that love, like death, is sometimes a road that must be travelled alone. 1996
Words: 4947 - Reading Time: 14-19 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Site Fourteen [MultiFormat]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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What if, instead of looking up for our exploration into space, we had looked down... 2004
Words: 5600 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Staying Dead [Retrievers Series Book 1] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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 Manhattan's night life just got weirder.... It starts as a simple job--but simple jobs, when you're dealing with the magical world, often end up anything but. As a Retriever, Wren Valere specializes in finding things gone missing--and then bringing them back, no questions asked. Normally her job is stimulating, challenging and only a little bit dangerous. But every once in a while.... Case in point: A cornerstone containing a spell is stolen and there's a magical complication. (Isn't there alway... more info>>
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Talent [MultiFormat]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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There's a time to shine in the sun ... and a time to let the next generation have their turn. But some people just can't let go... 2004 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention
Words: 1651 - Reading Time: 4-6 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Visitors [A Novel in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Universe] [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Laura Anne Gilman & Josepha Sherman
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Buffy and the gang encounter the ghosts of past characters, including Ms. Calendar, Giles' true love. 1999
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Deep Water [A Novel in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Universe] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Laura Anne Gilman & Josepha Sherman
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Willow's soft spot for critters finds her spending a cold winter morning along the coast as part of a volunteer rescue team, cleaning up an oil spill that has damaged the marine habitat. While climbing over some rocks, she discovers another unexpected victim of the spillage--a selkie, a shape-shifting seal girl who won't be able to return to the sea until the oil is removed from her coat. Willow takes the creature back to the library so that Giles and the Slayerettes can help her to restore her ... more info>> 2000
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Apparent Horizon [MultiFormat]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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Scehocet is a planet of slow days and quiet nights. But once you've been out in the Universe, there's certain knowledge you can't just forget. Even when you desperately want to. Maybe especially then. 2004
Words: 2431 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Catseye [MultiFormat]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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Never assume that you aren't being watched. Never assume that you're the one with all the power in the relationship. Never assume you're going to get away with it. 2002
Words: 785 - Reading Time: 2-3 min.
Category: Mainstream
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Clean Up Your Room! [MultiFormat]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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Jessy is one of the best programmers around. She makes a killing every time one of her creations hits general release. But she's working on something that will blow all her other programs out of the water--a self-aware household maintenance intelligence. The perfect housesitter. But Jessy made one mistake. She gave it a little too much personality... 1996
Words: 5586 - Reading Time: 15-22 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Don't You Want To Be Beautiful? [MultiFormat]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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We all know that the cosmetics industry is a con game, playing on women's insecurities. But what if they weren't the only insecure ones in the game? 1998
Words: 2382 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
Category: Mainstream
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Harvey and Fifth [MultiFormat]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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In the aftermath of any tragedy, there are victims and there are survivors. But in the aftermath of survival, there are also victims ... and some ghosts rest easier than others. 2003
Words: 1218 - Reading Time: 3-4 min.
Category: Horror
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Turnings [MultiFormat]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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Viv knew what was going to happen in her life, and was content. Until a stranger came into her peaceful, orderly life, and made her realize what she had already lost... 2003
Words: 1647 - Reading Time: 4-6 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Exposure [MultiFormat]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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Some artists use their work to keep the world at a distance. Westin used it to embrace the world he could never have... 1995
Words: 3906 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Sympathetic Magic [MultiFormat]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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Some people have all the luck. But what if it always seems to be bad? Only someone truly sympathetic can help, in that case... 2002
Words: 3466 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Horror
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Every Comfort of Home [MultiFormat]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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It's every explorer's dream: first contact. Everyone knew that they had to be careful. There would be no contamination. No fatal exchange of viruses, no deadly cross-pollination of ideas, until they understood each other better. How could they have known they were doing exactly the wrong thing? 1994
Words: 2432 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Dragons [MultiFormat]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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The new millennium brought the crazies out of the woodwork. Protesters, bible thumpers, visionaries. But it took one small-town cop to realize the truth about what was coming... 2004 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention
Words: 2037 - Reading Time: 5-8 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Bring It On [Retrievers Series Book 3] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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Nobody said juggling a career and a relationship would be easy ... Wren Valere used to have a simple life. Her partner Sergei would negotiate the terms of the Retrieval--all right, the theft--and she would use her magical Talent to carry it out. Paycheck deposited, on to the next job. Now? Her relationship with Sergei is even more complicated (sex will do that). Her fellow lonejacks are trying to organize against the Mage's Council. The nonhuman population of Manhattan is getting fed up with bei... more info>>
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Burning Bridges [Retrievers Series Book 4] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Laura Anne Gilman
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Wren Valere used to be almost invisible. But now she's not only being seen, she's getting involved. Recent attacks against nonhuman Fatae have escalated into hate crimes against magic users in general--humans included. With the Mage Council distracted by internal power struggles, Wren is guilted into stepping up as spokesperson for the fragilely united Fatae and lonejack communities.... And, because the cosmos deems her without enough complications, her partner-lover Sergei is drowning in his ow... more info>>
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