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We sat by the fountain at Ashland. Naomi’s eyes held pools of expectation. We’d been together a year and she was waiting for the ring. I pulled out the box, an unspoken “yes” on her lips. Her face fell, a bracelet of diamonds revealed. It was a ring after all, it just had a catch.

The cab ride home from Bluegrass Airport was uneventful. I dozed off and on, between glimpses of horse farms that rapidly dissolved into subdivisions, office buildings and restaurants. Everybody “oohs and aahs” over the horse farms, but they were disappearing faster than a pony keg at a frat party. Lexington was losing alot of its charm, and the traffic was a major culprit. It was times like this I was almost glad I couldn’t drive. One of the nifty little drawbacks to my magical abilities, i...

For Carson Bream, the quiet times were the hardest. Especially aboard a Galaxium jump ship in the middle of a deep run. Most military starships were a triumph of function over aesthetics, but the jump ship was ferocious in its utter devotion to the concept of utility. Even the cramped passenger cabin where he sat was a sparse affair. There was very little to catch one’s eye, almost nothing to spark the fires of a weary traveler’s imagination so that he might find a moment’s distraction from t...

I burst into the clearing, my lungs heaving, heart pounding, and I knew we were screwed. Our plan to capture the Wendigo had gone south. Way south. Way fast. Detour through hell. The twelve foot tall mass of white fur, teeth and claws loomed in the middle of a demolished campsite. A panic stricken woman and a small girl were huddled up against a tree so tight I thought they might melt into it. A German Shepherd was barking and snarling at the giant beast, darting in and out, as if it couldn'...