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    Final Gift: Uncollected Anthology: Deities
    Final Gift: Uncollected Anthology: Deities
    Final Gift: Uncollected Anthology: Deities
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    Final Gift: Uncollected Anthology: Deities

    By Michael Warren Lucas

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    One Orcess Against The World

    Mha fought in the Spanish-American War and earned all the respect an orcess could dream of. But not even a life of constant struggle prepared her to endure her final days in a rural Michigan barn, so age-decrepit she can't even pick up a cow. Her husband's death abandons her to face that end alone.

    Mha holds one thing beneath even solitude and weakness: dealing with senseless humans.

    But only humans can save her from sacrificing all her warrior left her…

    (a Prohibition Orcs story)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTilted Windmill Press
    Release dateApr 1, 2020
    ISBN9781386517498
    Final Gift: Uncollected Anthology: Deities
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    Michael Warren Lucas

    Michael Warren Lucas is a writer, computer engineer, and martial artist from Detroit, Michigan. You can find his Web site at www.michaelwarrenlucas.com and his fiction (including more stories about life in the universes beyond the Montague Portals) at all online bookstores. Under the name Michael W Lucas, he's written ten critically-acclaimed books on advanced computing.

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