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  • “Naturally, it was with those final words that the gobbit released a massive sneeze, narrowly missing Taluin’s outstretched hand with a trajectory of thick, milky mucus. Placidly, it licked what remained dripping from his nose. ‘Oh, yes,’ Gilferen murmured, almost losing his straight face thanks to Locke’s snickering. ‘They’re just lovely.’” Hello, everyone! Today is…

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  • “So you see there is some ground for supposing that Curdie was not a miner only, but also a prince. Many such instances have been known in the world’s history.” “The Princess and the Goblin” by George MacDonald.* With a great deal of adventure, action, mystery and magic, with a young Victorian heroine even more…

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  • “As Gilferen contemplated the city disappearing behind them and the sand and sky stretching ahead, Locke gripped his sleeve for support. Faintly, Gilferen sent a grin his way. ‘This is absolutely insane, isn’t it?’ he asked. We’re actually going out there. We’ve all got to be stark raving mad.’” It looks like it’s my week…

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  • “She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees and shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full.” “The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane” by Katherine Howe Since I adore the concept of this…

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  • “We’d both read and seen enough romantic fiction to know that if the writer seems to insist on throwing two characters together, it’s their job to resist, for as long as they can, anyway. A silly reason not to love, I know…but are there any that aren’t?.” “Variable Star” by Robert A. Heinlein and Spider…

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  • “There were no signs of scheming on that bold, frank face, though. Just the same hard determination that had always been there, with the faint mist of something else clouding his eyes. On closer inspection, Gilferen could find those eyes steadily on the back of Taluin Sera Cohl, on the long pale braid swaying slightly…

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  • “She said they would talk, but, only a few moments after Kadue had started to gentle stroke her hair, she had fallen into a deep, undisturbed, and desperately needed sleep. He stayed with her the entire night, helping her back into her shackles when the morning inevitably came.” I’ve said it before and I’ll probably…

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  • RoW Check-In: November 9th!

    “The next few hours passed with a dull pain that Auferrix had shoved into the back of her consciousness, and when it was over, she felt drained and empty, a dry husk. She started to believe their words, that they would be doing a favor by killing her. In just a few days, this nightmare…

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  • “‘Don’t judge either of us harshly, Clannon. This world is hard on the different ones, and there is no understanding. Only fear. “ “Seven from the Stars” by Marion Zimmer Bradly When they are stranded on a far-flung planet after their ship meets danger, seven space colonists from the Dvanthey federation find themselves facing more…

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  • “‘]They all ordered the same thing, except for the ugly boy who was a vegan, and he ordered nothing but black coffee and orange juice, and the girl thought drearily in her head, ‘Oh God, I slept with a vegan.’” “The Middle Stories” by Sheila Heti This curious book of odd little stories first fell…

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