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sheila-english's picture
Aug.27.2012
HER FIRST KISS…WILL BE HIS LAST. Blue Sargent, the daughter of the town psychic in Henrietta, Virginia, has been told for as long as she can remember that if she ever kisses her true love, he will die. But she is too practical to believe in things like true love. Her policy is...
sheila-english's picture
Dec.05.2010
An astounding urban fantasy about a clan of mages in exile in our world, living in uneasy truce with other clans until Danny North’s birth brings the flames of open war back to life. For Danny is a gatemage, the first in a thousand years, and he can open the locks that keep the North clan away...
fred-first's picture
Mar.05.2009
An account of an aerial ballet performed, perhaps, only for the man below who stood by the white farmhouse looking up, shading his eyes against the sun. This personal essay is included in Fred's book, What We Hold In Our Hands: a Slow Road Reader, available in May 2009.
andrew-kaplan's picture
Jun.25.2008
Gayle Saunders and Patricia Reid have been lifelong friends, as close as sisters. When they were teens their dreams led them down separate paths and away from each other. But they reunited as adults, drawn back together by a bond of friendship that stood the test of time. Now Pat and Gayle co-own...