Magic Feet and the Xanadu Man: A Terminalia Story: Uncollected Anthology: Magical Quests

By Kari Kilgore

Run to a Brand New World
When it comes to running, Alyssa Boothe knows to trust her feet.
Giving her the treasured chance to clear her mind and daydream.
Then on a crisp autumn morning in Atlanta, a fabulous man on roller skates shows the way to a place she never imagined.
Will Alyssa have the courage to finally discover where she belongs?

 

Part of Magical Quests, an Uncollected Anthology.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Spiral Publishing, Ltd
• Release date: Dec 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215977798

Kari Kilgore

Kari Kilgore started her first published novel Until Death in Transylvania, Romania, and finished it in Room 217 at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, where Stephen King got the idea for The Shining. That’s just one example of how real world inspiration drives her fiction. Kari’s first published novel Until Death was included on the Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in a First Novel in 2016. It was also a finalist for the Golden Stake Award at the Vampire Arts Festival in 2018. Recent professional short story sales include three to Fiction River anthology magazine, with the first due out in the September issue. Kari also has two stories in a holiday-themed anthology project with Kristine Kathryn Rusch due out over the holidays in 2019. Kari writes fantasy, science fiction, horror, and contemporary fiction, and she’s happiest when she surprises herself. She lives at the end of a long dirt road in the middle of the woods with her husband Jason Adams, various house critters, and wildlife they’re better off not knowing more about. Kari’s novels, novellas, and short stories are available at www.spiralpublishing.net, which also publishes books by Frank Kilgore and Jason Adams. For more information about Kari, upcoming publications, her travels and adventures, and random cool things that catch her attention, visit www.karikilgore.com.

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Magic Feet and the Xanadu Man

Run to a Brand New World

When it comes to running, Alyssa Boothe knows to trust her feet.

Giving her the treasured chance to clear her mind and daydream.

Then on a crisp autumn morning in Atlanta, a fabulous man on roller skates shows the way to a place she never imagined.

Will Alyssa have the courage to finally discover where she belongs?

Part of Magical Quests, an Uncollected Anthology.

For the lovely roller skating man in Piedmont Park

MAGIC FEET AND THE XANADU MAN

KARI KILGORE

SPIRAL PUBLISHING, LTD.

MAGIC FEET AND THE XANADU MAN

The first proper autumn day in Atlanta had a way of reminding Alyssa Boothe that her feet could work magic.

Sure, she drove herself from her cozy 1920s bungalow on the east side of town bright and early for her morning run most of the year. Painfully early if she was honest with herself, and later in the year the same schedule would have her lacing up her running shoes well before sunrise.

But once she found her favorite sneaky Saturday parking spot not far from Piedmont Park, her feet and those shoes and a welcome change in the weather took over and wove a spell all their own.

Sometimes deep enough into September to escape the Southeastern city’s steamy heat, but more often a few days into her favorite month of October.

The glorious day Alyssa stepped outside of her car and got a pleasant, tingly chill from the air instead of the promise of an oppressive afternoon to come.

Not because of the temperature, exactly. The nights had been cooling down for a while now, getting away from the miserable nights with