Résultats pour "The Writer" dans Fantasy

Donald J. Bingle, the author of GREENSWORD (a dark comedy about global warming) and Frame Shop (about murder in a suburban writers' group), further demonstrates his "signature dark humor" in this collection of twisted tales.

Deep in the vastness of the great plains, fate brings together a reclusive chemist and a mysterious woman who emerges from the boundless forest surrounding his mountain cabin. Their lives intertwine as they discover a connection to the power of nature and a shared past far more improbable than they had ever imagined.

Abby Nicholson used to love Christmas. Until she didn’t. After leaving Winter Glen, the small town famous for its Christmas celebration and her family’s greeting card company, Abby is forced to return to the home she left behind when the unexpected passing of her father thrusts the business into her hands. Turning her back on the magic of the holiday beloved by her father and the town, she decides to sell the business. Signing the paperwork with the very pen her father used to create it, she is shocked to discover her hometown has become a whole new world.

Pergi has prepared all her life to become the ruler that her father wants. Without sons, he knows she could only retain the throne if she marries the neighboring prince, combining their kingdoms. Yet the same prophecy that calls for the reunification also warns that they must join by love. Supplanted by her younger sister in this technicality, Pergi waits with ill grace for Sadira to marry Teyrnon and steal her birthright. No one expects that Sadira would do a runner on her wedding day. What starts as an impromptu rescue of the wayward bride leads to a desperate struggle against a deadly foe.

Meet the Unreliable Nature Writer: a macabre product of late capitalism, climate anxiety and personal loss. Finding herself alone at a wedding, tailed by an unctuous and infatuated fellow guest, she proceeds to have her fun—plunging us into a potpourri of disturbing, darkly funny visions of a near future. Aloof, evasive and sardonic, she will be our guide; her stories will bare truths about how the world we’re changing so violently might affect us in turn.

Mint-addicted aliens. Talking horses. Little girls in wheelchairs who get the chance to pilot starships. Odd little jade carvers who save the last great Mayan city by magic. A sexy wolf girl who saves a teddy bear boy and her clown boyfriend's heart. A famous director who cloned herself and now is dying of cancer, only she's raised her clone like a normal child. Guys at the end of the world who discover they're not the world's greatest poet, they're about as bad as it gets.

Whovian BFFs Molly Murphy and Glory Jackson are about to have their worlds flipped upside down. Molly's father died when she was 10 years old. Since then he's visited her in eerie recurring dreams, telling her she has "a power". Besides wanting her father back, Molly wants to be a writer. A scathing rebuke from her mother finally pushes her to try at age 21. Her first attempt is a passive-aggressive blurb about her awful neighbor. The only problem is - it comes true.

For romance writer Roxy St. James, living in Nocturne Falls also means a fresh start. And as soon as her unbearable ex signs the divorce papers, that new beginning will be a reality. Unfortunately, her ex doesn't seem ready to let her go and the subtle threats he's been making leave her no choice but to confide in her oh-so-handsome neighbor, who just happens to be a deputy with the sheriff's department. But Officer Alex Cruz isn't just the law. He's also a panther shifter, a secret he's sworn to keep.

Piers Anthony weaves this and more into Writer's Retweet, a collection of five short stories abounding in the adventure, magic, and naughtiness that fans have come to know and love from this author. In "Experiment", "Discovery", and "Mission", painfully average Bigelow Bilge and Paula Plaintiff are thrust unwillingly into a world fraught with terrifying, victim-specific illusions. Who - or what - is the source of these horrifying encounters?

The sea spits them onto a distant shore where there is more than meets the ears. Pergi and her companions rally in the swelter and danger of Elolle to fulfill their quest. They follow scant clues, straining to pick up any lingering traces that might lead them to the lost Stone Wangu. But the land that had once thrived under Lady Rhinna and the Music of her Far Stone now strays to strange tunes.

When unemployed computer programmer Nan Burton inherits a California beach cottage from her great-great-aunt, she's delighted. But she's in for a huge surprise: The house is haunted by the ghost of famous romance writer Max Murdoch (pen name Maxine DuBois), who insists Nan complete his last novel, threatening to keep her from sleeping until she agrees. The ensuing clash pits youth against the long-dead but still egotistical author with humorous and moving results.

Monsters are swarming the world...and it's all my fault! The game I've been coding for over two years is finally released. And so are the creatures within, and wreaking havoc in New York City. Roman and I have to stop them. But before we can, we have to figure out how it happened and who is responsible. Everything I've come to know about my legacy comes to a head when we venture from the small town of Hamlet Cove into the world of monster-hunting in the Big Apple. The rules have changed and the world is burning. Is it too late to save it? Or will we burn with it?

Going to Hell has never been on my bucket list...until now. The fact that I can speak that sentence without laughing or losing my mind is absurd. However, my life has veered into a very tricky tale that rivals any of my books. The villain has been banished. I’ve written her right into an infernal doom. Unfortunately, a few of my very dear friends, fictional and real, have been caught up in the horror story, and they’ve taken the trip down under as well. It’s my fault, and I can only see one way out...a plot twist of epic proportions.

Life was normal. Until a woman appears and tells me I’m an elf and she’s my grandmother. Not quite what I expected after another day at the office. Soon, I’m thrown into a world of duty, magic, and monsters. And a family feud as old as time itself.

Life sure did get interesting for Sadie Alden once she moved to Hallow Haven. She now lives in a world of magic, ghosts, and endless possibilities, what more could a girl want? When the local radio contest announces a Battle of the Bands competition, the islands are a buzz with activity. With her friend Kate as the organizer of the event, Sadie is soon dragged along as a judge. It’s all anyone is talking about, and soon she realizes that people are willing to do anything to win, even kill.

Written in the dark days of World War I, join Lord Dunsany as he spreads the dreams that we cannot leave to die. Dunsany was the most influential writer in the genre that came to be known as fantasy, which his stories set trends for that continue to this day.

Lord Dunsany was the most influential writer in the genre that came to be known as fantasy, which his stories set trends for that continue to this day. In this collection you’ll find sixteen stories from the first and greatest master of the fantasy genre.

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The Six Fingers return to Northem with a powerful, magical artifact known as the Azure Font. They mount it atop the ancient Faellic tower, but have little idea of what comes next. When the Red Lady senses something "truly evil" rising in the south, they embark on their third expedition. It takes them across the nightmarish Sea of Spires and into the heart of Atmaa, the last kingdom untouched by the Askerati hordes. As they discover, something worse than child-burning zealots has awakened.

I'm dying, and the only one who can save me is him. Hades, king of the Underworld, god of the dead, ruler of... Honestly? He's got too many names to list. You know the guy. Apparently, I need him to survive this disease that's been a death sentence since I was born. Apparently, I'm also the reincarnation of his queen, Persephone. How's that for a kicker?