Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Shifty
    Shifty
    Shifty
    Ebook194 pages3 hours

    Shifty

    By Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    What you see (at first) is not what you get in this collection of nine previously published tales of shape shifting and transformation. An Alaskan student of wildlife biology finds it difficult to write convincingly about what she knows. A proud and beautiful princess loses her popularity when cursed (in a way probably familiar to many readers) by a wicked enchanter. A lonely Cajun fiddler has a close encounter with his royal but scaly ancestor. In the secret story of the railroad that transformed the American West, Chinese and Irish workers compete to complete the job with a little help from supernatural friends. A lowly jeweler creates a wondrous bauble for the sultan's favorite, but his reward, an exalted royal elephant, eats him out of house and home until he unlocks her secret. An Irish nurse discovers the identity of the lone fiddler who plays at the bedside of a critically ill patient. A middle-aged woman, suddenly invisible, improves her love and social life during Mardi Gras. And a predatory bill collector meets his match in a story so dark that the author even changed her name. In these shifty stories, you'll be wondering who happens next!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGypsy Shadow Publishing, LLC
    Release dateMay 4, 2013
    ISBN9781619501638
    Shifty

    Read more from Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

    Related to Shifty

    Related ebooks

    Fantasy For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Spooky Storyteller

      Oct 5, 2022

      Spooky Storyteller
      2 min read

    • Article

      READER Reviews

      Dec 4, 2019

      You might not have read the Rabbit and Bear books before. If you haven’t, you need to know that in the first book Rabbit makes friends with Bear, and in the second book Rabbit is very clever and Bear is not. The third book, A Bite in the Night, which

      4 min read

    • Article

      Shelf Life

      Nov 4, 2021

      Shelf Life
      4 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Dustin Kurtz

      Dec 23, 2019

      Chalk it up in the How Books Are Bad column, I guess: They shore you up as a reading subject instead of letting you blur out. What a misdeed. The post A Year in Reading: Dustin Kurtz appeared first on The Millions.

      8 min read

    • Article

      A Summer Book Is A State Of Mind

      Jan 2, 2020

      This summer, I’m reading Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout, again. I’ve read it about 50 times already and plan to read it as many more times as it takes before I get either a repetitive strain injury of the imagination or Stockholm syndrome and am fo

      6 min read

    • Article

      Worlds Of Ink And Paper

      Nov 22, 2022

      As a young girl, I still remember my dear mother, smile on her face, curled up with Family Circle magazine in her lap. She was engrossed in an article titled “Butternut Wisdom,” written by Gladys Taber. At my age, it didn’t mean a thing to me. But as

      6 min read

    • Article

      Three Novelists Pushing The Bloat Out

      Feb 29, 2024

      THE ART OF OMISSION SEEMS TO BE UNfashionable in fiction these days. Word-bloat and page-plumping are the literary crises of our age. It’s not hard to see where this might come from. First, there is the same misguided view of value for money that lea

      6 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Ayşe Papatya Bucak

      Dec 2, 2019

      I guess I believe reading generates empathy. I feel pretty sure it offers readers experiences they would not otherwise have. But does it change how we act? The post A Year in Reading: Ayşe Papatya Bucak appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      Beetlemania

      Oct 9, 2020

      Beetlemania
      4 min read

    • Article

      Family Ink

      Mar 28, 2021

      Family Ink
      6 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Tim Lane

      Dec 8, 2021

      We stopped at the Topaz Internment Camp, where my wife’s family was held during World War II, near the tiny town of Delta, Utah. We found the apocalyptic remnants of one of our country’s great shames. The post A Year in Reading: Tim Lane appeared fi

      7 min read

    • Article

      Now That It’s Come to This

      Jun 3, 2021

      Now That It’s Come to This
      13 min read

    • Article

      PRESENCE Tense!

      Jan 12, 2020

      This feels like the wrong season to read a ghost story, as they somehow seem to belong in cold, dark places. But this one kicks off during the famously long, hot UK summer of 1976 and is no less atmospheric for it. The Corvino family is renting Iron

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Quick Fox

      Apr 4, 2024

      I must confess that I don’t plan out my books. This is to my own detriment—if only I were more organised (I often think), I would be far less prone to staring out of the window instead of writing, wondering if that squirrel will manage to jump from t

      5 min read

    • Article

      Wolf Sister

      May 7, 2020

      Wolf Sister
      10 min read

    • Article

      Reader Reviews

      Feb 6, 2019

      BY CATHERINE FISHER Firefly Press £6.99 REVIEW by Liza, agethirteen I have so much to say about this unforgettable novel. Set in Wales, in Victorian times, our main protagonist, Seren, leaves her dismal orphanage to visit Plas-y-Fran. Litt

      6 min read

    • Article

      READER Reviews

      Apr 8, 2020

      One of my favourite parts of this book is the map because it maps out the routes that all the female adventurers took. Each of the women went on their own adventures and through this book, I got to explore with them. Most of the time, the journeys we

      5 min read

    • Article

      A Tale Of Two Sisters

      Jan 29, 2023

      This gently-paced and richly atmospheric story is a real experience to read. It’s filled with myths and wonders, raw sadness and exquisite beauty. The main character Esther is not always easy to like. She can be self-centred and destructive. But her

      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Shifty

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Shifty - Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

      cbook_preview_excerpt.html[ےƑқӒ|[ːbH$nPO??O9Ug,+6D3%/'Of4Iyuc2O>W|7OvٟhF=8<>s;dn}x⹫}eGb؛Cl8<Cr}c;y_ 3幗Kzc}}{|aG,6r9jcG; ;]<>2wXxu]=^7ݽO~[OYpxO? qvY.Nil]iP_6ĝ6wWr6`C[t)sNhwnluי8ДC0bG .bb//1qgFs6{;μ!qp啗>~vyٶ<:Vwƍy?xrw7zk[6+ݐDl|-U:/AC>]w3S9+kQ})a=^FT އ؟ ZAg`X_9v.O)pH6Ս὇qd;qacƛx?bWNS V ݶ658|W{Uk_6.s)>UbS"xjEջzDXWj6l"9Zۚ=G78:D+sFynU8@։kl;"+8٪L:e2?ymP=Q Ctvk%-gCe6Ոry$;V̝L=̭@-vTCl6pso՗W_qo~yU!832oG;*^n5^!Y٨~k@RX4>wOPqOo#0_}5RPO\7c 'bԨ;9hX8>$jk^u;7_#Iu5D/Pt;(-?"ֽ{Հƍy"5.Q?Y+P"s iTo|݉.Wbd޶DqHrXFwpwb)m;FRHٹ_.VoNھwGR~O{>ق$ 2|j1P ;YH; ~Gww]$*_O3Cɯ*]e lͳPmPbpH(zD}CV4I#zx[j6G\/\ʫ9.J~M)9^?J0}15ꍭ;xf{A2•0%lw-nyXHgc4 ;_ M-#qC=yۇukO#b\AJ4vOI?[0Qdcd%?"[el<w)(BoDظs -) ѝiO&!xAXUγp&[$b΁W:DȜCWLr "X 1$ ܁O+-1hoSG&y79ILU$%rא@y!WstzNVypq0i^IJ \ʚxvJ 0Q~X1 z:tgLFL~Xa*(fgwH3J )[Dd2/Z706Vm?Ie%!{ vPo̝zxm/92DWjyLXeߦp͓CIEE5JF_4͹u7plk5o Ӽ,SR(by96,tnĂ!GŨ[Oo&A w!vgFlU;_`>ބ4N-#c. ~ qcBF$dlng p lӊd]r T2;&;[a9ZQT{_y=s 3E:X gda&$2#X $D:fLxqk%?jIà/nmi%] (a4C+2uFྜ* jtWr %|j#MX3 yhɶϝS!o툀MFI`>%&4YHQ#jz dX^@OJÄZkk>b5*y ."{djJ#9^hr)QȇΌ+  vƍ&A{i9Vj<;T%Fb7^C"KI_vě4s q-GnDPd#2JL7xR}'+]UmsbQHZ3GY^H|4ӎ%Qx 6w*@Fx1  j #R?x &D.>YRy'`$JB)/ɞ5TVfЈ?Rj#:e5λgdV0;HAAO.02q-s eT ܝ ٪Q^rpcfN_o$H')p2"12f0JXPEh sض[! EK_蹡6UbNWҝz^^7l_XٶR^cr]]Brr:U"yg|v ~:,|.+u!j}' bKEGD!@@]Ejd+'FS3d$=X/&*ϼk1 P *8\P Xψ.:Ng$ǽ:>CMFf~-˂ Oɖ rʽ(뇩%~},`͒ lM;_h"7tyt\_(Fj8@W$)%~?zyajar90))lOvܑW *tYO.a5P^acm2vk556J'Iy*dpE1U܀&,O!ؖ~6 Gy Z P{J~I?mj@04-C$@pXv҂s%R~Gqd;MG霮_OMs%$:b̑4Fw2 G{"u XRB=EWBӼ9T\*"?;~$E4Gb44 ]ԙt`֚CRТ<__-'wzaOfse5+MS L]eiQ-)FOsۺC\Ρjs,/9>BJKLOP|'+ ؅=!RYPL32+bx1̕J̑l tLJI#jL51K[V); &$! 3G־z\/!{׎d~VCXwrt< #՟0 o43df"PN1Y3{zEkMɖ/t3.#hk&MXFƸ 9ݑD:V|!V0c$:1fsi3b:j5HoG&A xNK ^,SF(W x̦kf˕*DK7vwܽ4F4w/&Ra:[/*`ȇ!}.(7ZS 0ANb-= $a`hr?(kY+-J|W;%ĤOuTMxt,0~S+GL $p\K* %!$YqU%lKoYV4[ijUfHԅ3\rϸlBP y({APιn~r8ߒӌM8cyS@0c.$'c#GNI"JZiPbjec'QZV9&Am7 H3!i[/9IǼ3ڬΌG 7赚 ہ4eu T su{mҸ@ͥˎC,d6<y?}(sDjNDTEH#g| f `}V.-fm>jUiaڹ!f/FM[ ,&JVND4׻VSY6wSZX"xR,3C(u5[8ű-B=S`(V"8_ِ慍ž}[?s cYƷdRަ v!6-`&]U~I/VDR 6c]NH=izV<ʞc/Έ g}u.֥ɜ@`*I?^ϒm 1XVT V9ɗsBE,cZ!4y嶳:H=IڂwkA^*Zl?fzD,~bn !t̅ćmˣK5y[\U9Pjťn1ḇ9i ڋ|K%c*;ɩyR=$UU .gDPYz KrZ?x2Zf a]}.XȊ{<@N"'$AXU%\oXˇ8k(3ːKs;;77%uq,,EuEa1tQvR;XX lz=fЗފ2Ѫ'о&ɮs\=ҒtZ(]|$> Ie; {t-yz;qpHWrk #\msISz c?D[إg]&ݩZr tJ$AώorN S"r;g4nDg*'V$;DjֹJ * ǂt٤z*5+rVJE2Sb|3}H3x'mE5 *n@aRғZk{.u}Wg RReĠ#G@BH m{bY%&>gK3Wlgc r'#Q+[<-^\lnD2-uPbk[PK\=75V&8Lu螾> -.}ιZ%V*crty.ejoq#ܰLa['+ߚW,$3& !iR,@ 7 1C9njuDNrV5UUdxuXеg9>gf~U^#غqO/% -- Qèk:5Wźrp~\C jCЫ%vpsHya"'oSXb@ 9!h#3kU JRZ"w9ۖ)IJvC ,i8*[]ʮ/A>.'].E +v֛5K'I9ƾ3!ZNH% 9rxԲR$Ed-VvƚzN6~amM؈֗Fel)/Y($ϊ$@KziWZ Jv ^OCsZOeC1FU=?Oq`g"ɧGA 4B<$bZ.gL46?!.qrYύ ^U9~d֬NpٹHd?`q, Ç!s# Yʐ-Cf jߛeE|}~_=H Q/H.!{0uwZSJfȴgeޓ}Qu/c-3AR=8Y+}|:Ĺ9v#J"ۚw]֛?•/X]y<"ʗKf99+9tndPf/l O+RX2%|8gK9 {9BD9N6"9',!UᔿmKwؾA
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1