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    Loss and Sacrifice
    Loss and Sacrifice
    Loss and Sacrifice
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    Loss and Sacrifice

    By Andrew Day

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    This collection contains three short stories in the genres of horror, science fiction and fantasy, all about the things we lose: our humanity, our souls, even our very selves, through choice, through sacrifice, or by the passage of time. All stories published for the first time.

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    “Loyalty”: When his fields become mysteriously barren, a farmer makes a desperate bargain to save his land and his daughter, but he is unprepared for the new crop he must grow in his fields.

    “Of Memories Lost”: An old and worn out robot on an unfinished journey meets a strange creature on its travels.

    “To Die in the Spring”: They are the Lok’Chang, the Army of the Damned. They were sent against their will to a nightmarish world outside of their own, to find and bring back an item of immense power. They will do whatever it takes to get home again, even though it may cost them everything.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrew Day
    Release dateFeb 26, 2014
    ISBN9781310420726
    Loss and Sacrifice
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    Andrew Day

    Andrew Day lives in Brisbane, Australia. His hobbies include writing, avoiding direct sunlight, and making ill-conceived plans for world domination.

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