Steven E. Wedel
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Sam follows his friend Gene as they peddle their bikes out of town in the late evening. Gene stops them in a clearing around an oil pump jack and tells Sam to start gathering firewood. That's when Sam knows Gene wants to do his fire thing again.Gene has the weird and unique ability to shape fire into objects. Usually he does small things that he can hold in his hand. But tonight he has something bigger in mind. Much bigger.Sam can protest, but in...
2) Shara
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Shara Wellington has always been shy, but what happened on prom night drove her deeper into herself. Professor Josef Ulrik, however, sees something in the girl and believes he knows what she needs to unlock her inner power. But accepting Ulrik's Gift of lycanthropy only opens up a world of new problems for Shara. Alienated from her home and family, Shara must learn to life as a wolf in the wild and as a woman with the urges of a beast. When it's learned...
3) Elijah
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Judy Myers was happy enough. Single, the successful partner in an interior design business, with a home that was an oasis from her busy day of clients and colors.
Until the day she arrived home to find the unexpected delivery of a white parrot that only seems to know one phrase.
Now her life is falling apart. She can't sleep. She can't eat. Her home is a wreck. And everywhere she goes she hears the merciless shriek of the demonic bird. Can she get...
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When he kills a poet singing a song mocking Tarod the Puppet King, Minnea's former ruler is arrested and sentenced to hang. Tarod meets new friends in prison with a plan to escape, but the greater danger is the sword of Bolkar the Death Merchant, a bounty hunter who never brings anyone back alive.
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In this collection of short stories based on his acclaimed Werewolf Saga, author Steven E. Wedel reveals back stories about some of the major characters in the series while also introducing characters in unrelated stand-alone tales..Who made the Old Ones and why? How did Ulrik come to be the first werewolf born in the New World? Was Shara destined to become a werewolf? What happens when a werewolf has a toothache? Or when one places an ad looking...
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In the wild and rugged Cherokee Nation, a young bounty hunter named Jacob Wolf embarks on a dangerous journey to retrieve stolen horses and seek justice for his retired partner, Jerome Freeman. But it won't be an easy task, as Levi White Horn and his gang will stop at nothing to rid the nation of the rival for beautiful Sarah Longfeather. Filled with heart-pounding action and vivid descriptions of the untamed West, "The Travels of Jacob Wolf: Warhorse...
8) Love Curse
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Keith's mother is dead, but that doesn't mean she's stopped trying to help him turn his life around. His dad, however, doesn't see any reason he or Keith should stop drinking or using drugs.Ashley and her two best friends have never known real love. When the girls make a road trip into a larger city near their home on the Oklahoma plains, they stumble upon a book in an estate sale that might be the answer to their romantic problems.When the school's...
9) The Teacher
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Andrew Clausing is a teacher who has lost nearly everything. His wife left him. His teenage daughter hates him. He drinks too much. The only things he has are a love of teaching, his relationship as a mentor to his students, and a secret affair with another teacher who happens to be married to a state senator. When one of his female students mistakes his kindness for romantic interest, Andrew is faced with losing the few things he has left in his...
10) Orphan
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Ramsay Quarles is already a wanted man when he guns down a cheating gambler in a small Kansas town. Now the dead man's nephew, Jack, has decided Ramsay is his new guardian and guide to the western frontier.Meanwhile, Les Booker just wants to work his job as a foreman in a Chicago meatpacking plant, marry the girl he's been courting, and forget he used to be a Pinkerton man. The last thing he wants to do is try to track down his rich boss's runaway...
11) Reunion
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Young Bobby Bauman's mother and father have brought a group of strangers together for a reunion. They all have an intimate relationship with the deceased teenager.
But as the people munch on cookies and drink their punch, the memorial service takes a dark turn. The Bauman's believe those gathered are needed for Bobby's glorious resurrection.
They have something she wants, and she, her husband, and their church will stop at nothing to ensure Bobby's...
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Dena is recently divorced and ready for a new life in Benevolence, Oklahoma. She has a new job and and old house. The job is promising. The house is perfect, with plenty of space for her and her two young daughters.
She really thought this first week in her new house was going to be the start of a new life.
The house, however, had other ideas ...
13) Yes or No
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Over 35 years ago, Daniel bought his high school grilfriend Penny a pregnanacy test. He gave her a note asking her to circle Yes or No to tell him the results. She circled Yes, then disappearned from his life. "Life never gives you shit without taking someting in payment." Now, after a hard life that has left him confined to an assisted living center and battling COPD, a woman named Alicia claims she is the daughter Daniel thought Penny had aborted...
14) A Light Beyond
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SUMMER OF LOVE
Something magical happened in the summer of 1978. Thirteen-year-old Robert Prince fell in love with Alia, a mysterious older woman who lived down the street.
SUMMER OF HORROR
Something horrible and deadly happened between Robert, Alia, and his friends Scott and Tim. Something that would leave Robert scarred for the rest of his life.
LIFETIME OF PAIN
Unable to forgive himself or to love anyone else after what happened when he was thirteen,...
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Once upon a time, Donnie Nelson was a bestselling author of fantasy novels. He had the fame, money, and career he had always dreamed about, but fame led to temptation, and Donnie surrendered to it, destroying his family. Then his mother died. Writer's block set in, and Donnie retreated to a new career as a used bookseller in the tiny Oklahoma town of Sagebrush.
There he stayed, year after year, unable to write, his royalties drying up, living in...
16) Afterlife
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Cody Treat has gotten used to living among the ruins of modern civilization. But when one of the thousands of ghosts following him finds a way to communicate their need for help, he learns that the end of the world was just the beginning of a fight for survival.Orphaned and alone after an apocalyptic meteor event followed by a plague, Cody roams the ruins of Oklahoma City looking for food and shelter from the gangs hoarding supplies and torturing...
17) The War Lord
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Tarod, a young man from the mountains, comes into civilization looking for help fighting off the slavers harassing his people. When he learns that the peaceful city of Nevara is holding a tournament to choose a new war lord, he joins the ranks of gladiators in hopes he can win and use his position to influence the king. His youth, inexperience, and the dark machinations of a wizard prove to be more challenging than the battles in the arena.
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11 Tales of Terror
The God of Discord – A man discovers the single eye of an ancient god watching from space, and soon realizes he's been noticed.
When the Lady of Byblos Calls – When this ancient goddess calls you home to the sea, there is no resisting her, even if you're a Nebraska corn farmer.
Lulu – The carnival fat lady needs a new caretaker. It's a job with a very high turnover rate. Did someone say "turnover"?
Nocturnal Caress –...
19) Nadia's Children
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After centuries of waiting, the Alpha has arrived.In the wilds of Mexico, the Old Ones gather around Shara as her third pregnancy nears its triumphant end. Meanwhile, Kiona and Chris hide Joey in the Arkansas swamps, hoping the treachery they fomented will not find them. In California, Fenris rages over missed opportunities.As Joey grows into adulthood confined to a swamp, Morrigan, his unknown sister, comes of age under the tutelage of Holle, an...
20) Nocturnal Caress
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In Oklahoma City, a mother and daughter are visited by a creature that lives under beds.
Pam and Allison Baker are a modern mother and daughter. They don't believe in monsters. Not really.
But the monster under Allison's bed believes in them.
Fans of short horror fiction will enjoy this take on a classic phobia as mother and daughter and monster come to terms with their living conditions.