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Men & Monsters

"I beg your pardon? Real?" Giant laughed, yet there seemed to be an underlying hint of offense taken. "Tell me, Eira. How in this little world of yours could you possibly imagine something like me?"

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Metsänpeitto

There’s a phenomenon in Finnish folklore called metsänpeitto or forest cover - unexplained missing of people and domestic animals in nature. When the storyteller and her friend come to Finland for...

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Creation of Hurricanes

Folk tale about the creation of hurricanes

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From The Fires - A Short Story Anthology

"I didn’t fully understand it yet, but I sensed that I held a great power that would transform the eternal winter we had learned to live in " A great writer once said that a true alchemist is the o...

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Mrs. Parker pays a visit

An elderly relative of mine once recounted a story of playing in her yard as a young child in the 1950s in Belize City, British Honduras (now Belize). In this story, she sees an elderly woman stand...

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The Wrong Kingdom

Say hello to Elfy, a nineteen-year-old elf prince without a kingdom or a home. currently on a mission to save his people from their enslavement, as well as a few others on the way. Though his jour...

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The Masked Dancer in the Moonlight

In a small Bulgarian city, the lively sounds of the kukeri dance fill the air, believed to ward off evil spirits. Amidst this celebration, fifteen-year-old Petkan slips away from his sleeping famil...

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Rose and the Hollow Crown

Rose Reid has always seen things she shouldn’t, beautiful, terrible things that don’t belong in the daylight. Her Gran called them faeries, and warned her to never speak, never look, and above all,...

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Thrawn Janet

Reverend Soulis is a strange, solitary old minister whose moorish abode bears an inexplicable atmosphere of horror. Few know what had happened to the minister, and those who do keep quiet out of fe...

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Echoes

In Vishrampur, a town caught between old legends and new technology, lives intertwine with AI in ways no one fully understands. From restless spirits in ancient temples to whispers of digital haunt...

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Dark ashes

Ashok, a boy from the city, visits a forgotten village after an invitation from his best friend Ajay. Ajay is eager to show him the village's ancient traditions, tribal life, and a ritual said to b...

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The Man in the Deer Mask

In Blackpine Hollow, winter has rules. Lock your doors before midnight. Never follow hoofprints into the woods. And if the man in the deer mask knocks, let him in. When Marigold Thistle returns h...

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Anthesteria

Anthesteria, when the divine and the dead walk hand in hand.

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ANIKAA & THE ESCAPE- BOOK II OF ANIKAA SERIES

Jiyu has been caught, but is it the end? Mukund, Anikaa's painting gallery manager is found unconscious in his office; Protiva, Milan's old friend is knocked out cold in her house. However rand...

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