Open Water: Fantasy

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April Doomsday
by Tessa42 It's about zombies. And as usual, I'm not sure if this is the best category but it's a category and I placed my story here. I figured zombies count more towards Fantasy or Horror and this isn't necessarily bloody gut tearing and eating horror. So there you go with the category. Read more.

Pondering The Lives of Seafarers
by loisrichardson Derived from a trip along the gulf coast. A love of the sea, I imagine many stories. Read more.

Rebecca's Story
by Ivory This is an excerpt from my second novel The Lost Art of Magic Read more.

A Ghost From My Past
by Lady_Jayne Sara Moffitt had never put any stock in fortune tellers or card readers but when her mother, Lillith, suggests they go see one just for fun, Sara quickly changes her opinion. Sara is intrigued by the fortune teller's insight to her current and what she calls her past lives. While Lillith intended only to do something fun and unusual with her daughter, she becomes concerned when Tinsin, the fortune teller, reveals a secret long held private from the family. Read more.

The Guardian of the Yellow Wolf
by Lady_Jayne The Guardian of the Yellow Wolf tells the tale of Pearl, a tall dark beauty, a peasant from the lowlands of Kildare, Ireland. She calls herself a healer, but many consider her a witch. Taught by her mother, Meghan, a seer of the O’Grady clan, Pearl knows both healing and magic, but prefers curative skills. Measuring the risk, she serves both nobility and commoners. When called to deliver the son of a nobleman, she does not know her destiny to serve a cursed family awaits her. As providence rules, Pearl finds herself drawn into the noble family of Lord John McLore — a family that suffers under the curse of the faoladh, or werewolf. Lord McLore, a highly respected nobleman and horse breeder, finds Pearl to save his wife and baby. Pearl saves the child, but is unable to save the mother. Lord McLore beseeches Pearl to stay on to care for the child, named Christopher, and she agrees. Through strange and horrific revelations, she learns of the curse and vows to protect and find the cure for the child she comes to love as her own. When by chance she meets the McStern family, she finds hope in their youngest daughter, Airyona, who is of pure spirit and highly gifted. Pearl yearns for Airyona McStern to save her beloved Christopher McLore. But young Lord McLore is drawn to Airyona’s sister, and his desire threatens Pearl’s hopes to cure him. Read more.

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