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    Porcelain Doll
    Porcelain Doll
    Porcelain Doll
    Ebook72 pages47 minutes

    Porcelain Doll

    By Rhonda Parrish

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    Strange and unusual high-quality speculative fiction and poems that will make your heart skip a beat.

    Contents:
    St. Winifred Medical Center, Abandoned by Joshua Gage
    Shelba's Brood by M.E. Garber
    The Gate of Horn by Megan Arkenberg
    Dancing with the Departed by Anna Zumbro
    Porcelain Doll by J.A. Grier
    There She Stands by Nathaniel W. Phillips
    Awakened by Sandi Leibowitz
    Lena's Confession by Kristi Brooks
    Valediction for the Dungeon Master by Mark Jones
    The Crew by Doug Blakeslee

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRhonda Parrish
    Release dateAug 31, 2014
    ISBN9781310119101
    Porcelain Doll
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    Rhonda Parrish

    Rhonda Parrish is the co-author of Haunted Hospitals. She has also been published in Tesseracts 17: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast and Imaginarium: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing. She lives in Edmonton.

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