Kari Kilgore

Fantastic Shorts (eBook, ePUB)

Volume 2

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An enchanted bookstore in a town full of magic.
A story of childhood and best friends revisited.
A town forced to face the music.
A modern myth from a land before time.
A charming collision of numbers and magic.
Unwelcome change in a land of dragons.

In this second fantasy short story collection from Kari Kilgore, she visits lands familiar and strange, mythological and fantastic.
From Allsentia to Appalachia to Atlanta, from modern mythology to dragons to joys of distant childhood.
Join this talented storyteller on a journey through magical bookstores and haunted towns, lands lost in time and friendships forged across new dimensions.

Includes Odds and Endings, Dawn Visitor, The Earworms, The Spider Who Ate the Elephant, Little Five, and The Last Dragonkeeper.

Odds and Endings
Visit an enchanted bookstore in a town full of magic.
Chris Ramsey grew up visiting the Odds and Endings Bookstore in Lightning Gap, Virginia.
Wandering the shelves. Finding endless adventures in the pages.
Wishing he helped create the magic.
Years later, Chris gets his chance.
What would you do for the opportunity of a lifetime?

Dawn Visitor
A beloved dog brings a special gift, especially to a young girl’s life.
One that lasts and endures no matter how many years pass.
Toby welcomes Ellie home as only a first best friend can.
A touching story of childhood and best friends revisited.

The Earworms
What if your whole town had to face the music?
Estonoa, Virginia. A lovely little town tucked deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Hiking and ATV trails. Kayaking along the scenic Clinch River.
A thriving community focused on the future.
Erin Evans loves her hometown, except for one thing.
The Earworms.
Will Erin find the answer before the music drives her and everyone else crazy?

The Spider Who Ate the Elephant
A Modern Myth. An eerie natural phenomenon.
In the distant past, in a distant land…
Grandmother Spider faces a sad problem far too big and difficult for her to solve.
The end of her family and all the creatures in her land.
Find out how her triumph echoes from then to now, and into forever.
A tale of compassion, survival, and love.

Little Five
Barry Evans: An oddball in the oddest land of all.
A gray-suited accountant navigating colorful hair, crazy clothing, and questionable businesses.
After three months in Little Five, nothing surprises Barry anymore.
Until the day he meets a true stranger in town.
What happens when numbers meet magic?

The Last Dragonkeeper
Wyja, Senior Dragonkeeper of the Upper Abramshire Academy, tends to young dragons and keepers alike.
Each group challenging, and exhausting, in their own way.
Unwelcome change sets in when dragon birthrates drop to dangerous levels.
No one knows why.
Can Wyja solve the problem before it’s too late?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Spiral Publishing, Ltd.
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788835363026
• Artikelnr.: 58985254

Autorenporträt

Kari Kilgore started her first published novel Until Death in Transylvania, Romania, and finished it in Room 217 at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, where Stephen King got the idea for The Shining. That's just one example of how real world inspiration drives her fiction. Kari's first published novel Until Death was included on the Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in a First Novel in 2016. It was also a finalist for the Golden Stake Award at the Vampire Arts Festival in 2018. Recent professional short story sales include three to Fiction River anthology magazine, with the first due out in the September issue. Kari also has two stories in a holiday-themed anthology project with Kristine Kathryn Rusch due out over the holidays in 2019. Kari writes fantasy, science fiction, horror, and contemporary fiction, and she's happiest when she surprises herself. She lives at the end of a long dirt road in the middle of the woods with her husband Jason Adams, various house critters, and wildlife they're better off not knowing more about. Kari's novels, novellas, and short stories are available at www.spiralpublishing.net, which also publishes books by Frank Kilgore and Jason Adams. For more information about Kari, upcoming publications, her travels and adventures, and random cool things that catch her attention, visit www.karikilgore.com.