Frye Martin Sampler

By Frye Martin

Imagine that nothing you know about the world is correct, that there is more in heaven and on earth, and within your best friends, and your lover than you could ever know. Could you trust anything? Could you take a single step forward, backward, or to the side with confidence?

This brief sampler is designed to give new readers a taste of Frye Martin's style and stories.

Three short stories are included in this teaser collection. These are "Time Twins: The Universes,” “Time Twins: World 2,” and a new addition called “Fifty Muses.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Freedom Dawn Press
• Release date: Apr 30, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310189098

Frye Martin

Frye Martin writes YA and adult fiction and loves it.***********The heart,The pen,The why,The when,The nameThe place,The hidden face,The hope,The dream,The bursting seam,The story must be told.***********

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and events are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Frye Martin Sampler

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Copyright 2015 Frye Martin

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Other Titles by Frye Martin

Bonfire of the Vanities: Strike

Bonfire of the Vanities: Combust

Cold Dark

The Fall Collection: Back to School

Rhona's Phoenix

The Spring Collection: Rue Blooms

We Are the Future

The Winter Collection: Snow Injections

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Frye Martin Sampler

by Frye Martin

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Contents

About This Sampler

Fifty Muses

Time Twins: The Universes

Time Twins: World 2

Coming Titles

Meet the Author

Contact the Author

About This Sampler

"Rip Van Winkle's been awake for near two hundred years,

He hasn't shut his eyes to sleep, he has too many fears,

And day by day he cries until he hasn't any tears,

All because the future's past and time is in arrears."

Imagine that nothing you know about the world is correct, that there is more in heaven and on earth, and within your best friends, and your lover than you could ever know. Could you trust anything? Could you take a single step forward, backward, or to the side with confidence?

This brief sampler is designed to give new readers a taste of Frye Martin's style and stories.

Three short stories are included in this teaser collection. These are Time Twins: The Universes, Time Twins: World 2, and a new addition called Fifty Muses.

The Time Twins installments appear separately in the The Fall Collection: Back to School and We Are the Future collections. Portions of the story will recur until the eventual conclusion.

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Fifty Muses

The moment the door closed with barely a thud, I heard the gun cock. Strangely, I knew this sound instantly, although I had never heard it before. My face to the door, afraid to move suddenly, I spoke to the person pointing the gun at my back.

Lela?

Lela was a flower in the midst of the jungle. She was a rare jewel in the ocean. She was the realization of a symphony yet to be conceived. In the short months I had known her, she had granted possibility to every dream I could ever imagine. But within a few days things had changed.

Move away from the door.

Carefully, I turned around.

After recent discussions--arguments--during which basic impressions I'd had of her broke down, I thought she might use the gun to threaten her own life. Looking at her, I could see that she meant me harm. I did as she instructed me, but the weapon followed me.

Are you going to kill me?

The coal makeup rimming her eyes came from crying and smearing. Despite this she looked like the girls in the magazines, all glistening and oily with mussed hair and a vulnerable demeanor the way that a man desires to see a woman. I had to tell myself it was the wrong time for desire. She sniffed, then swallowed.

No.

Fifty muses, or maybe demi-muses, were burned alive, utterly cleansed and purified, shined up all pretty and shunted to earth. That's what she told me. Every third generation, these fifty would begin a new life again with absolutely no knowledge of their past or their purpose. An order of tutors would have to find them and educate them and empower them to fulfill their mission.

Lela told me that she'd found them one year ago after a breathtakingly beautiful woman had encouraged her to