The masochists won the poll. The priests of Moloch now have a name – komer (sg) kmarim (pl.) I sat inside Alycia Walton’s office behind her desk. The door was open and the light from fey lanterns in the hallway drew a long rectangle across the floor. The rest of the room lay shrouded in
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Life, Surprise Guests, and Stress
Guests Gordon: Hey, come outside. Bring the phone. Me: ? They hung out in the front yard for hours. We were fifteen feet away. Stress Posted with permission from Kid 1. We are all a bit stressed out right now for certain reasons, and I walked into the kitchen to find Kid 1 particularly freaked
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Blood Heir Is Available for Preorder
A lot of people emailed us asking for preorder for BLOOD HEIR, since many of you chose to wait until it’s published and didn’t want to miss it. Here you go. From award-winning author, Ilona Andrews, an all-new novel set in the New York Times #1 bestselling Kate Daniels World and featuring Julie Lennart-Olsen, Kate
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Chapter 9 Part 3
I opened my mouth. Nothing came out. Of all the potholes to walk into. Luther chuckled. “Take your time.” “How?” “You see the nature of magic and the traces living beings leave in their environment. I perceive the specifics of one’s magic, but only when I meet them face to face. To me, everyone’s power
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Chapter 9 Part 2
Dedication: Dear Michael C., finally, your time has come. Thirty minutes later, Stella and I stood in front of Henry L. Bowden Hall in the heart of Emory University. The three-story building loomed in the dark, dimly illuminated by a row of feylantern streetlamps, and the ghostly blue light gave it a foreboding air. When
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Office Repair: the Finished Product
By popular demand, here are the results of our office repair. if you missed the post, the previous owners of the house improperly ran the HVAC cables out of the wall straight into the rain trench, so when it rained and the water level rose, it ran straight into the wall, flooding the office. The
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Chapter 9 Part 1
For the front row seat to the view of Derek’s issues, see Magic Stars. 🙂 I paced back and forth inside my sanctuary. Tulip watched me with a freaked-out look on her face. I had brought her inside, all the way into the inner chamber, where a stall had been put in for emergencies, just
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Dog pictures and Admin news
Happy belated July 4th to those who celebrated. We had a nice time. It was just the family and we had all home sheltered for two weeks prior. Now on to boring admin news. We decided to limit the nature of our email form. If you look on the contact page, you will now see
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SMALL MAGICS Update
The retail copy of SMALL MAGICS has been updated with extra content free of charge. A lot of extra content. 🙂 If you purchased SMALL MAGICS from Amazon before and would like to get the new version, you have to do request an update. I prefer to delete the old file from the device before
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Chapter 8 Part 3
The full moon shone in the night sky like a coin of white gold, sliding in and out of ragged clouds. I sat on Tulip’s back, in the shadow of a large dogwood on the edge of what used to be West End Park. Decades ago, the trees inside the park had rioted, fed by
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Are You Alright?
Personal post, do not read or you might get depressed. With rising coronavirus numbers in Texas, I just wanted to know if you are alright. Rita Thank you for checking. See that big red circle? That’s us. We made national news by going from 4 cases a day to 210 cases a day. For a
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Chapter 8 Part 1 and 2
The phone line was nowhere near Martha Street. I figured on about fifty/fifty chance of Stella sending me on a wild goose chase. Clearly, she either didn’t trust me or decided to get payback for me ditching her. Fair enough, a point for her. I respected both her being cautious and trying to get even.
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