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Smoking
With A Ghost By
Kristin Knaus Satterlee
"Hi," he said. His eyes were big and brown, his lips
soft and sensuous as they sucked at his cigarette. Pity he was
dead. "I'm Carl."
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Ivy and Thorn
By Stephanie Burgis
Mary kept her eyes fixed on his. "They cannot engender human
life," she said, "though they would steal it, if they could. The
babe is none but yours, my lord. Time moves very differently,
there."
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The Ultimate Vacation
By Linda S. Cambier
I supposed I should have been grateful for small favors. It's
not like I'd have any real privacy on my journey. I glanced at
the walls and wondered if my experiences would play on the
screens. I smiled. Perhaps I was not yet through entertaining
and titillating the public.
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Outwitted
By Donald Jacob Uitvlugt
Then she reached down, down past the floor, past the
bedrock it rested on, down to the Source she touched when
working her own craft. She felt power well within. With a prayer
of thanks and a plea for mercy to Créa All-mother, Jana released
a burst of fire toward the door.
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The Roman
and the Regency By Merrie Haskell
"It is I, Marcus Cornelius Gaius. I approach as a
supplicant, O holy one." It took a few moments for the
meaning of the Latin to filter through her mind. A man crept
forward from the shadows into the light from the windows, and
stood before her. He was not particularly tall, but he was
well-muscled, and wore ... armor.
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Burned and Burning
By Joyce Ellen
Armond
...she knew about the cocktail and the hook, the promise of
biochemically induced passion that even fights about money
couldn't kill. She knew what kind of perversions tainted the
world outside the colony. She'd dedicated her life, risked her
life, to fight against them...
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