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    More Than Magic
    More Than Magic
    More Than Magic
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    More Than Magic

    By L. E. Erickson

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    Ten worlds. Ten dreams. Ten opportunities to lose yourself in the magic.

    Hell's second-in-command braves the living world on a quest to save his lord's life. A young wife and mother's only hope might lie in a place that can't exist. A teenage anorexic is stalked by a phantom horse and her own guilt. These tales and more live and breathe in this collection of ten magic-filled short stories by author L. E. Erickson, whose short fiction has appeared in Cricket Magazine, Deep Magic, The Leading Edge, and several other magazines and anthologies.

    Readers have called the stories in this collection, "thought provoking," "haunting," and "first class, grade-a, as good as it damned well gets story telling." Buy the book and find out for yourself. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJMA Publishing
    Release dateAug 23, 2019
    ISBN9781393620020
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