Ann Stratton
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Santiago's back... and now he is harassing Alexander and Eden. They've just finished all the renovations on their dream house and owe money to everybody in the city, it seems like. He might be one of those contractors, but none of their contractors will confess to knowing anyone by the name of Santiago. There's only one thing left to do...
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Five Stories examining how some people get along -- or don't -- with their fellow humans: Rains in Their Season: Arjuna and Deliya are the last of their family, surviving in a decaying old mansion. Arjuna dreams of past days' glory, but Deliya just gets on with the day. But she still has dreams too, and one day the dream comes home to roost. Arusa and Jim! At the Warehouse: Arusa is a talking semi truck with an attitude problem. Jim's just trying...
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The combined stories from the short collections Monday is Winter and Other Stories and Home Is What You Make It. Ten stories that look at what makes a home, and places far from home, and whoever or whatever you may meet there. A house haunted by a woman whose work is never done.A man in search of work, and the bowling ball that urges him onward.Leslie got roped into cleaning up the old parish house, and there's someone else there who's not there to...
4) Delta City
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Magda of Ferrin is on her way to Delta City to fill the marriage contract she made with Armin of Pothrin. She's been looking forward to this for a long time. However, the Great River stands at flood, the weather is foul, everyone has to comment on her family situation, and Mother Ferrin herself is in Delta City to oversee the wedding. What else can go wrong? Magda's about to find out.
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After the world's been destroyed and all trust is gone, is the deal the only thing holding what's left together?
Dayel thought he had a deal with Jermy, but then that Jorjy butted in. And then Jermy took up with those two raggedy starving stranger Mikey and Bobby. Dayel took that deal because onlies don't live long.
So now the five of them have a little food, a shelter rebuilt into a fort, and they are living life as high as it's likely to...
6) Schrödinger
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What happens when you meet yourself? Would you trust what you saw? What happens when you want to leave but you can't find the door? And just who are all these people who like me more than I do? A story of trying to adjust.
7) Mountain Top
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Magda of Ferrin had been promised the Sunset Ocean, and she is going to claim it. She has to earn a living first, trading goods between far flung settlements in hard to reach places. With a load of goods for Mountain Top, she sets out on the mountain roads into disaster. Bankruptcy, poverty, and abandonment await her there. Can she escape Lowbrow's iron fist and save Leilani and her family from starvations and worse? Will she and hers survive the...
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Veracity's the personal assistant of her thirty times great grand uncle, the thousand year old astronaut. It's not such a bad gig, earning her the social and financial credits to live her life the way she wants. But then someone decides it's not fair that Jasper should live so long and takes steps to find out why. They harass and kidnap Jasper and it falls on Veracity to find and rescue him. Nobody's listening to her though. Nobody thinks this actually...
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That strange little foreign nun had started all this, started Adini Smith Bronze and Savini Housekeeper Bronze on this trip, telling Adini she was meant for greater things. Adini didn't give her too much mind, except to worry about the Churchmen finding out she had been consorting with an unbeliever, because she had her own greater things to worry about: her Journeyman exams, finding a job and somewhere to live. Then she took on the Examination Board...
10) My Little I
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A collection of short stories from the first person that includes peeing on one's own tires, tracking down an annoying chirp, playing a child's game for the fate of the world, a fascinating encounter by the river, an extraordinary customer, a late night visit, a guilty conscience, a college trip, a human encounter of the nonhuman kind, and the end of summer.
11) Stress Fracture
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Beam Mahoney just woke up in a place she doesn't recognize, next to the last person she ever wanted to wake up next to. Where is she, and how did she get here? who are these people? And can she get a ride into town?
13) Fight Night
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Life is hard in the prison camp. There's back breaking work every day, and never enough food. But the inmates have formed a community of their own and they support each other as much as they can, even as the Commander does his best to break them down. Still, the work continues, even as the Commander's daughter has to be fitted for her prom dress. Even as a singing competition is offered as diversion for the Commander and his wife. Even as Even as...
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A short collection of stories examining the idea of home.What happens when the previous tenant won't leave?What's the point of arguing with an inanimate object?Why does wrestling with demons make such a mess?What do you do with a body in the freezer?How can you defend everything that you hold dear?How do you define home?
15) A Bowl of Light
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Josephina's church has just received a shipment of glass bowls. Nobody knows who ordered them, nobody wants them, nobody has a use for them, but there they are. Josephina tries to make the best of them, arranging them to complement the old parish house, but somebody keeps moving them around...
16) Yod's Story
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Leaders shouldn't act like spoiled children, but Yod is seriously thinking about turning them both over his knee. The fate of the world depends on their cooperation but they'd rather call each other names. He can build and create anything in the world, except for a lasting agreement between two spoiled boys. How will he find their common ground?
17) Red Shadow
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The Guen'chee have a contract to check on and maintain the weather stations in the high Arctic. Except for station A-113. they just called in and said they weren't going anywhere close to that place. So it falls on Ray Thompson, the supervisor to go and find out why they refused station A-113. Everything looks all right...
18) A Kindly Man
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Beau is a simple man. He leads a simple life and finds transcendent pleasure in simple things, like a shell on the beach, or cup of chocolate on a cool morning. It is a pleasure to do good for others, like his neighbor Wilson, who is building a whole new means to explore the universe. Will Wilson make it to the moon, as he wants so fervently? Does he really need to steal everyone's batteries to get there? And is a wrecked phone booth really the best...
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Easy thinks he found a pretty good deal, here at the bottom of the world. He's got a lab partner and best buddy, he has the ice, and nobody (well, hardly anybody) to fuss at him for not being social or demand explanations of complex religious and spiritual concepts. He does have scientists who constantly demand more data, more field samples, more of everything the glacier has to give. Life's pretty good, right? Except for the politics. And then his...
20) When It Ended
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It's the end of the world as we know it, and we don't feel fine. Mollty Cook wants to escape he island before the volcano blows them all to smithereens. Rowan wants her to come and sight see some bridge, like nothing was happening. How will she escape the old city before the volcano blows? Will there be a seat on the plane in time? Will there be any boats left to leave on? Will all the grabby people leave her alone until she gets to safety? Can she...