Category: Fantasy Publisher: Smashwords
Type: Fiction
Copyright: Jan 7, 2013
ISBN-13: 9781301729739
Ghosts? Angels? Aliens? This collection of short tales concerns entities which could be any of these. Could they really exist? Or are they only part of our imagination?
Ghosts? Angels? Aliens? This collection of short tales concerns entities which could be any of these. Could they really exist? Or are they only part of our imagination?
About the stories…
“Them” is a story of alien abduction, published in the book Bardic Tales and Sage Advice in 2005.
“The Long View” concerns one woman’s reflections on the life she has left behind, and was published by Wet Ink Press in 2006, and also in The Hub magazine in 2007.
“The Hearing” (aka The Trial) explores what happens when a guardian angel is put on trial. This story was published in InvisibleInk.com’s book of short stories, Invisible Ink 1.
“Forbidden” is a story about the most illicit of love affairs – the secret passion between an angel and a demon. My screenplay version of this won third prize in the Gimme Credit Short Screenplay Competition in 2008.
“The Foundling”. Who or what exactly has appeared on the doorstep an old woman’s cottage in Ireland? Abandoned child, or something else? I was very happy to have this story accepted and printed by Mirador for The Mirador Fantasmagoria anthology in 2011.
From Elsewhere also features “Grey Eyes In Silver”, where a discarded mirror brings more than just everyday reflections.
Excerpt
Something went thunk and Maeva jumped. Usually a sound like that meant she’d dropped her cane. But her cane was still firmly in her grasp.
Maeva rubbed her chin. Something had hit the roof. Braving the winds, she went outside to have a look. If the storm had blown a branch on to her roof, she wanted to know just how big it was.
What she saw embedded in the thatch made her doubt what little eyesight she had. It was not a branch. The thing was small, white, and wriggling.
“Mother of God,” she breathed. “What are you?”
The first book in the series takes place on Klairn, a post apocalyptic, yet provincial world where an elite core of Protectors keep watch over those who would cause harm. Becoming a Protector of Klairn is about as hard as making the Olympics on Earth
Ragged and weary from their previous ordeals, Braxton and his motley crew of elves, dwarves, and humans, set off into the Wilderkind Forest in search of the Sapphire of Souls. The problem is, the last time anyone saw the powerful gem was over a hundr
