Hidden Paths: Nine Fantasy and Science Fiction Stories

By M.K. Hutchins

Delve into forbidden jungles, travel across flesh-eating oceans, and chow down on some cryonic sushi in these nine fantasy and science fiction tales from M.K. Hutchins. Originally appearing in Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Daily Science Fiction, and elsewhere, these stories are collected here for the first time.

Included is this collection is the novelette "The Temple's Posthole", which won an IGMS Reader's Choice award and was placed on the Tangent Online Recommended Reading List.

• Language: English
• Publisher: M.K. Hutchins
• Release date: Oct 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310493331

M.K. Hutchins

M.K. Hutchins is the author of the YA fantasy novel Drift (Tu Books, 2014). Her short fiction appears in IGMS and Daily Science Fiction. She studied archaeology at BYU, giving her the opportunity to compile ancient Maya genealogies, excavate in Belize, and work as a faunal analyst.

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