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  Metaxysm - A Creature Feature...

  RE Holding

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  “I shouldn't have brought Metaxysm outside the lab. Even looking at it now, I know something strange has happened with it.” 
  Abby is an underground inventor in the suburbs of a mid-size city where what you know doesn’t carry as much weight as who you know. Struggling in her new role at Soto Labs, she tries time and again to create a gadget that will earn her acclaim within the scientific community and, more importantly, among her peers. 
  Her colleague, Ben, a senior inventor with his own struggles, takes Abby under his wing. But in a devastating blow to both of their egos, a careless mistake is made that immediately threatens the life of another employee, puts a target on Abby’s back, and sets the world at risk. 
  Backed into a corner, Abby's last hope is that Ben's next move is the right choice. 
  Lovecraft meets Clue In this fast-paced horror-infused tale of fear and the unknown. Fans of horror, science fiction, or other uniquely told tales of the macabre will enjoy “Metaxysm.”

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  The Big Bounce - One Small Ball...

  Walter Tevis

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  The Big Bounce by Walter Tevis - Seeing it in action, anybody would quaver in alarm: What hath Farnsworth overwrought? 
  Let me show you something,” Farnsworth said. He set his near-empty drink—a Bacardi martini—on the mantel and waddled out of the room toward the basement. 
  I sat in my big leather chair, feeling very peaceful with the world, watching the fire. Whatever Farnsworth would have to show to-night would be far more entertaining than watching T.V.—my custom on other evenings. Farnsworth, with his four labs in the house and his very tricky mind, never failed to provide my best night of the week. 
  When he returned, after a moment, he had with him a small box, about three inches square. He held this carefully in one hand and stood by the fireplace dramatically—or as dramatically as a very small, very fat man with pink cheeks can stand by a fireplace of the sort that seems to demand a big man with tweeds, pipe and, perhaps, a saber wound. 
  Anyway, he held the box dramatically and he said, “Last week, I was playing around in the chem lab, trying to make a new kind of rubber eraser. Did quite well with the other drafting equipment, you know, especially the dimensional curve and the photosensitive ink. Well, I approached the job by trying for a material that would absorb graphite without abrading paper.” 
  I was a little disappointed with this; it sounded pretty tame. But I said, “How did it come out?”

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  The Myriad Flower Scape

  Steve James Graham

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  Step into a realm where light and shadow wage an eternal war, and the echoes of forgotten gods awaken once more. Amid crumbling empires and forbidden sorcery, an ancient power stirs—its call entwining the fates of those bound by prophecy and blood. As the stars tremble and kingdoms fall, one bond of destiny may either remake the world... or end it forever.

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  Divination and Disaster

  Melissa Gunn

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  When divination fails, will disaster automatically follow? 
  To take her place as a seer, Sibyl first has to pass an exam proving her ability. But not all exams end well. When Sibyl fails her seers exam, she escapes to a family farm to come to terms with her failure. Her stay doesn't bring the relief she expected; instead, she's reminded all over again how much hard work there is to do on a farm in rural Aotearoa New Zealand - and what dangers there are, too.  
  While Sibyl's unable to divine the future, it seems that everyone around her has already done so. Even so, they may not be able to prevent disaster. Can Sibyl see her way past disaster to a new future? 
  This novelette is a prequel to Seers and Salt, the first novella in the Woodside Cosy Urban Fantasy series.

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  Dying to Get In

  Rachel Lawson

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  When a killer stalks the Karaoke for victims, the magicians go to the Karaoke to stalk him. Will it kill one of them, and who murders the songs?

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  Adeline Mowbray

  Amelia Opie

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  "Adeline Mowbray, or, The Mother and Daughter, is a novel by Amelia Opie that was published in 1804. The experiences of the heroine, Adeline, are loosely based on the unconventional life of Mary Wollstonecraft, an acquaintance of Opie. In the novel, Opie explores what might happen when a woman's idealistic philosophical beliefs conflict with society's notions about female sexuality.    The philosophically minded Adeline decides that marriage is an outmoded institution. She refuses marriage to Frederic Glenmurray (modeled on William Godwin) and instead chooses to live with him as his sexual equal. Although Adeline is honorable, clever, and honest, she faces social condemnation. She is disowned by her mother and respectable friends and harassed by men who assume she is sexually available. After Glenmurray dies, Adeline seeks protection by marrying the abusive Mr. Berrendale, who ultimately abandons her and their daughter, Editha. At the end of the novel, the ill Adeline is finally reunited with her mother. Adeline repents having transgressed society's expectations of women and, before she dies, leaves instructions on how Editha is to be educated."

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