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    Wonder & Woe
    Wonder & Woe
    Wonder & Woe
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    Wonder & Woe

    By Joshua Bennett

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    A surface tension exists between thought and action. Humans think one way, only to act another. The mental anguish of free will is our most precious curse. What makes us behave in such a way? If only we could peek behind the veil of the human mind...

    "The Sweep" centers on Aldax, a Visigoth soldier. HIs people have just defeated the Roman army at Adrianople. With the Romans routed, Aldax is tasked by his king with an impossible mission.

    "Sunken" follows Celene and Garret Blaumbast, a duo of sub-maritime adventurers. Their journey to catalogue the wonders of the deep are cut short by an assault on their craft, by an unseen threat.

    In "New Devilry," a computer hardware guru named Red, illegally decrypts a hard drive for an unknown client. He is later confronted with horrifying truth of the evil he has unknowingly perpetrated.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoshua Bennett
    Release dateAug 28, 2016
    Wonder & Woe
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    Joshua Bennett

    Josh Bennett is a writer of outlandish short stories and comics. He is working towards his BFA at Full Sail University, and can be seen in the black of the night, sacrificing frog hearts to effigies of Lovecraft, Eisner, and Burroughs.

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      Wonder & Woe - Joshua Bennett

      Tales of Wonder & Woe

      Three stories by Joshua Bennett

      Copyright Joshua Bennett 2016

      All Rights Reserved

      Book Cover By Author/ Photo by Roman Pohorecki

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