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Fatherhood [MultiFormat]
by Steven Piziks
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Forcing a sylph to pay child support is always a tricky business. 1996
Words: 6058 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Washerwoman [MultiFormat]
by Steven Piziks
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The washerwoman is an Irish ghost who washes the clothes of those who are doomed die. Usually she haunts streams and rivers, but these are modern times. [Author Note: I wrote this story long before the events of 9/11. I don't think I'd have the strength to write it now.] 1998
Words: 3360 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Exorcist: The Beginning [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Steven Piziks
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Based on the film from the acclaimed director of auto focus and affliction, and from the writer of The Alienist. In the aftermath of World War II, Lankester Merrin finds himself in the remote Turkana region of Kenya. Haunted by memories of the war, he has taken a sabbatical from the priesthood and journeyed far from his native Holland. He has come to lead the archaeological excavation of a mysterious, Byzantine church, buried in pristine condition as if on the day it was completed. Directly unde... more info>>
Category: Suspense/Thriller
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A Quiet Knight's Reading [MultiFormat]
by Steven Piziks
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When you can't keep up with all the knights trying to steal your treasure, you just have to get creative. [Author Note: This story is a prequel to "Hoard," the very first short story I ever sold. I always wondered how you get a dragon to change professions. Now I know.] 1998
Words: 2267 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Thin Man [MultiFormat]
by Steven Piziks
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Children fear the monster under the bed or the creature in the closet. But Victorian climbing boys, the poorest of the poor, have neither beds nor closets. What sort of monster would they fear? [Author Note: "Thin Man" was inspired by a pair of poems by William Blake, both titled "The Chimney Sweeper." The bits of information the editors mentioned about climbing boys struck me as both horrifying and fascinating. I read more on the subject and, after some research, came to realize these boys had ... more info>> 1997
Words: 7218 - Reading Time: 20-28 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Chain, Link, Fence [MultiFormat]
by Steven Piziks
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The fact that the author teaches sex education has nothing to do with the writing of this story. Nope. Nothing at all. 1997
Words: 1292 - Reading Time: 3-5 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Star Trek: Voyager: The Nanotech War [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Steven Piziks
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Throughout human history, mankind has turned its goals and dreams toward exploration. With wagon trains, ships, satellites and starships, humanity has chosen to seek out the new frontier, to explore new worlds, and to go where no human has gone before-even to the furthest reaches of the Delta Quadrant. There, Captain Janeway and the crew of the Starship Voyager? have discovered many strange and wondrous civilizations ... but few as alien as the Chiar. An advanced and scientific people who have m... more info>> 2002
Category: Science Fiction
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Innkeeper's Solution [MultiFormat]
by Steven Piziks
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In this world, everyone gets a familiar. Everyone. 1997
Words: 5646 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
Category: Fantasy
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The Rose, the Rich Man, and Mother Berchte [MultiFormat]
by Steven Piziks
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Santa Claus? Please. 1997
Words: 4410 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Round Dragon, Angry Tiger [MultiFormat]
by Steven Piziks
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Dragons and tigers are traditional enemies in medieval Japan. So what happens when the one becomes a student of the other? 2000
Words: 6485 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Ghosts From an Enchanter Fleeing [MultiFormat]
by Steven Piziks
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When you're a teenager, no one understands you. It's worse when you're a teenage necromancer. 2001
Words: 4653 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Patterns in the Chain [MultiFormat]
by Steven Piziks
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Even ogres have grandmothers who knit. They just knit something else. 2000
Words: 2177 - Reading Time: 6-8 min.
Category: Fantasy
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