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    Down on the Playground
    Down on the Playground
    Down on the Playground
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    Down on the Playground

    By Jeffrey Lyman

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    Elsi fears for her own sanity as she comes to grips with horrors both seen and unseen. How much of what she faces is in her own mind and how much of that will it take to destroy her? Some forces are better left alone, but Elsi isn't given a choice. Sometimes you have to stare into the face of madness to find your own strength.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereSpec Books
    Release dateApr 19, 2016
    ISBN9781942990215
    Down on the Playground
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    Jeffrey Lyman

    Jeffrey Lyman is an engineer in the New York City area. His work has appeared in the anthologies Sails and Sorcery from Fantasist Enterprises, New Blood from Padwolf Publishing, and Breach the Hull, So It Begins, By Other Means, Best Laid Plans, and Dragon's Lure from Dark Quest Books. He was co-editor of No Longer Dreams and all four volumes of the award-winning Bad-Ass Faeries anthology series. He is a 2004 graduate of the Odyssey Writing School, and won 2nd place in the fourth quarter of the 27th Annual Writers of the Future Award.

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