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Contemporary Fantasy | Contemporary Fantasy

stacy-mantle's picture
Nov.13.2011
Fate hasn’t exactly been kind to twenty-year-old Alexandra. Unless you count the fact that she can communicate with animals (and she doesn’t), the only piece of luck she’s ever had was being rescued by a werewolf and landing in a forever home with an eccentric couple and their unusual pack of...
charles-a-ray's picture
Aug.11.2011
Wallace in Underland is a contemporary urban fantasy; Wallace Johnson is a lonely, scared little boy whose life is changed the day he meets a talking rat who helps him escape from the clutches of the neighborhood bullies. Ralph the rat takes him to Underland, a strange place inhabited by talking...
terry-spear's picture
Jul.11.2011
Lady Sessily is a dark fae, an assassin, and she intends to retire and take up some other occupation so she can have a normal life. Get a boyfriend. Visit the human world to hassle humans like many of her kind do. Attend fae kingdom parties, not as the mystery woman who is scoping out her next...
sandy-o-nathan's picture
Apr.18.2009
 “The material and spirit world clash in this well-written adventure novel. A fantastic intellectual work which makes readers question their priorities in this life. A highly-recommended title.”  USA Book News SYNOPSIS: Will Duane had it all. Head of Numenon, the vast, multi-national corporation he...
joelle-martin's picture
Mar.03.2009
“It is not wise to make war with the unknown,” Dreamer forewarns the antagonistic human, Victor. Still, the young man remains determined to discover the secret Lily Kingman and her strange new friends are keeping; and he is gaining dangerous knowledge. Meanwhile Dreamer is experiencing a...
steven-e-schend's picture
Sep.20.2008
"Concerning a Gambit of Fraternity" is the first published short story of "the Vanguard," a magical secret society interested in boosting the influence of magic in the world. While I refer to it as my "two guys walk into a bar" story, it's the introduction to a world...
steven-e-schend's picture
Sep.20.2008
13 original stories about the realities just around the corner... Movements glimpsed out of the corner of your eye, inexplicable sounds, knowledge for which there is no rational explanation, dreams that seem as real as our own everyday life—products of overactive imaginations, or unexpected...
kelly-mccullough's picture
May.06.2008
The universe needs a reboot... In the twenty-first century magic has gone digital, and Ravirn, a direct descendant of one of the three Fates, is a talented sorcerer and computer hacker extraordinaire. So when Necessity, the sentient computer that runs the universe, catches a virus that crashes most...
kelly-mccullough's picture
May.06.2008
 Hades Has A Hell Of A Firewall To save his girlfriend's webgoblin, Ravirn-a sorcerer with a shape-changing laptop-must brave Hell itself. Can he do it without corrupting the magical Internet-and without facing the Lord of the Dead himself?
kelly-mccullough's picture
Apr.29.2008
Magic Is About To Get An Upgrade Ravirn is not your average computer geek. A child of the Fates-literally-he's a hacker extraordinaire who can zero in on the fatal flaw in any program. Now that twenty-first-century magic has gone digital that makes him a very talented sorcerer. But a world of...