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If you only buy one eBook this year… buy this one! Simy forgot to simulate breathing, watching with all the other aides in the...

If you only buy one eBook this year… buy this one!

Simy forgot to simulate breathing, watching with all the other aides in the security room. The other three were merely holding their breaths.

They only breathed again when the sound of running water emanated from the tiny bathroom off one side of the cell.

“What is she doing?” demanded the Maq'eck. “She’s meat. Raw, fresh and tender.”

“Yes, but she also has Tarqa’s prime interest close to her heart,” countered Simy. “Look at how she’s holding the egg.”

Exactly so that, should someone attack, the egg would be the first thing to come to harm. Simy felt a swelling of pride. He had taught her how to balance situations in her favour. In secret conferences away from the Othersiders and her lessons alike.

He had almost two thousand years’ worth of cunning on his side, and Sahra was a fast learner.

If you liked this quote, you’ll love the book.

Yours for the low, low price of anything you want! 365 stories, prompted by people like you. Readers all over the internet gave me every...

Yours for the low, low price of anything you want!

365 stories, prompted by people like you. Readers all over the internet gave me every kind of nonsense they could carefully concoct in an effort to stump me and got every kind of marvellous prose.

Now in a format where you don’t have to scroll through endless reblogs, ranting, and flamewars!

What would you pay for a years’ worth of work?

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Yours for only $2.99 at Smashwords! Even the spacious Othersider ships were getting crowded. Sahra watched from her safe space, protected...

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Even the spacious Othersider ships were getting crowded.

Sahra watched from her safe space, protected from the germs of the abandoned humans below her window by uncounted airlocks and hallways. She made sure she stood at the right hand of Lord High Admiral Saviour King Django Ali. And she made sure he was wearing a more comfortable replica of his golden thorn crown.

At least she’d learned Mama’s trick of talking

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For sale now at Smashwords! There was a stall selling icons, on the way back to her home/farm. Most of them were of the Saviour doing...

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There was a stall selling icons, on the way back to her home/farm. Most of them were of the Saviour doing miraculous things. Calling down yellow rain on the Tu'att. Making the walls bleed. All the miracles that had happened both before and after the Othersiders came.

One stood out.

The Saviour blessing a little girl in a gold sheath. Pointing to the angel of death and making that angel shrink away.

Except…

The way

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OUT NOW AT SMASHWORDS! Get the whole trilogy! Graak finally levered the last corner loose from the air vent, only to discover another...

OUT NOW AT SMASHWORDS! Get the whole trilogy!

Graak finally levered the last corner loose from the air vent, only to discover another grille, just behind it.

Damn Yoomins!

This had to be a trick to erode his morale. For all he knew, freedom lay on the other side of this grille. He ground his talons into the gaps, trying to get the metal to either wear away or bend. He was so devoted to it that he almost didn’t

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Yours for only $2.99 at Smashwords! Django would, when he was cross, throw his weight around. Raven often complained, when he wasn’t...

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Django would, when he was cross, throw his weight around. Raven often complained, when he wasn’t prone to parody. And right now the prospect of becoming the Saviour of five systems worth of humans was making him fairly angry indeed.

“Do you have any idea what my people did to me?” he demanded. “They gave me a golden crown of thorns! They made me king of an island that nobody

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Now available to buy at Smashwords! Hevun fell Those words could not be censored out of existence because they passed at the speed of...

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Hevun fell

Those words could not be censored out of existence because they passed at the speed of panic. From mouth to mouth. By filthy human trader and pristine Tu'att military vessel. Whispered in hallways, shouted at deaf grandmothers, passed in code by those who feared it being read by other eyes.

Even by flickering human fingers behind their Tu'atta masters’ backs.

Hevun fell to human rebels.

They had the Majestrix.

Undisputed ruler of six

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Challenge #00529 - A154: The Problem With Tired Old Plots

Free day!

There are a certain number of possible reactions to finding out that one is temporarily invisible and inaudible to the rest of the crew aboard the vessel you all share.

“FUCK!” is in the top ten.

So is, “This is a plot from a bad science fiction series!”

As well as a solid string of curses old and new.

Jabrelle went through the entire top ten before she settled down and attempted to get a grip. She wouldn’t have

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Challenge #00524 - A149: That Ole Time Religion

“All hail the sun god, he is the fun god. Ra! Ra! Ra!”

“Gimmie a Q! Gimmie a U! Gimmie an E-T-Z! Gimmie an A! Gimmie an L! Gimmie a C-O-A-T-L! Whadduzit spell?”

“Quetzalcoatl!”

“Whadduzit spell?”

“Quetzalcoatl!”

“Give hearts! And blood! To make the rain! Why do we love ‘im? We might be insane!”

YYYYAAAAAAAAYYYY!

“Zeus! Zeus! He’s our man! If he can’t do it, Hera can!

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Challenge #00522 - A147: Sympathy for the Monster

Rule of Fiction 13: Any monster, fictional or real, will have a romance written about it, often one where it turns out to be “not that bad”. A lot will be absurdly well-written and thought out, and a lot will be barely-readable trash.

Pre-Amity humans and Galactic Alliance again, I’d rather see well written (because your stuff is always well written) but there’s always the Twilight in Space option if you feel like it

[AN: The problem with any Twilight

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Challenge #00520 - A145: Two Types

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A character that uses every opportunity to throw her prosthetic arm at people, hand it to them etc.

The Membletak used to be a race of conquerors. As far as manifest destinies were concerned, they were mostly benevolent. They did not, for instance, use germ warfare or treat their conquered planets as dump sites or their conquered people as second-class citizens.

They did rely on heavy taxes, but you can’t have everything.

That is,

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Challenge #00516 - A141: Dem Dry Bones

Zoology revision prompt! This is an excerpt about what you can tell from just a skull.

“A defining trait of mammals is specialised teeth. Mammals are the only class on Earth to evolve specialised teeth, with specific shapes for vegetation, meat, insects and combination diets. Reptile teeth are all very similar, single-point and peglike, often not as firmly rooted. They vary in size, for instance snake fangs, but in general are all very similar.”

There were skeletons all over this

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