Ten Cent Wings

By Nancy Beck

Two short fantasy stories for the price of one.

Ten Cent Wings:

Doug "Tank" Sherman is a down-and-out boxer in the U.S. Midwest, circa 1950. Drifting from tank town to tank town, he travels with his manager, hoping to finally Make It Big.

Battered in his last fight, he decides to try his luck one more time, by calling out to his "friend," an unnamed angel. The angel fixes his broken body. But this angel extracts a price, a monetary price, for Tank to keep his healed body.

The price? Ten cents. One thin dime.

Tank is broke. Can he cough up the money in time?

Vengeful Faerie:

Domnicca is a faerie, spending carefree time in The Glade, a world hidden from humans. But when she finds out she was born on the wrong side of the hill and no one is truly her friend, she takes off for the unprotected, human world.

Larry Bigelow is a veteran of World War II, and can't find a job in late 1940s America. Stuck in a small town, he waits outside an employment office, hoping, praying they can find him something. Because Larry has just the suit on his back to carry him to a job.

Enter Domnicca. The only way she can live (and feed her cigarette habit)is find a sucker who'll fall for any line and finagle money out of him.

In The Glade, she was sworn to help any human who stumbled in.

But outside The Glade, all bets are off.

• Language: English
• Publisher: March Winds Publishing
• Release date: Aug 25, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465864574

Nancy Beck

Nancy Beck lives in New Jersey - not down the Shore, not in the urbanized northeastern part of the state, nor in the flatlands of the southern part of the state. No, she lives near Pennsylvania, and sometimes wishes she was already there. She has one fantasy series under her belt (Haven New Jersey) and a mini short story collection. She is currently working on the first in a new series, something she's wanted to write for some time. Please visit her website for any updates. And she hopes you enjoy the fiction she writes - that is the number one reason for her writing!

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Ten Cent Wings

Copyright 2011 Nancy Beck

Published by March Winds Publishing

Cover art courtesy Vera Kratochvil

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Table of Contents

Ten Cent Wings

Author’s Note about Ten Cent Wings

Vengeful Faerie

Author’s Note about Vengeful Faerie

About the Author

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Ten Cent Wings

You'll be sorry when you ask for help from this angel...

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Doug Tank Sherman could barely open his swollen right eye. He turned his face away as the sun crept in through the big window that looked out on the dusty town in the middle of Nowheresville, Nebraska. Or was it Iowa? It was hard to remember because every piece of land looked the same. So did the towns, big and small. This one looked the same as the last and the one before that and the one before that: Gray, dingy, inhospitable. He sat up on his elbows, blearily taking in the room he flopped in after last night. Crumbling ceiling, shredded brown wallpaper, ceiling fan that moved in creaky, slow motion, and, a gashed, smelly red rug.

He groaned. He’d bottomed out. Again.

Tank twisted to his left, gritting his teeth, holding on to the side of the flimsy mattress as he laid on his back. The sweat trickled off his forehead as he winced at the sharp, shooting pains. But what part of him didn’t ache? Bloodied and bruised, he would’ve been better off dead.

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