Inversion - Not Your Ordinary Stories


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Inversion - Not Your Ordinary Stories is speculative fiction for the inquisitive mind. Author Paul Stansbury invites you to experience a world where the rules as you know them do not always apply. Inversion means turning upside down or inside out, reversal of a normal order or relation. What better title for a collection of speculative fiction stories? When you ask "What If?". the result is not your ordinary story.




Black Sheep: Unique Tales of Terror and Wonder No. 17 - November 2024


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Welcome to Black Sheep: Unique Tales of Terror and Wonder, an extraordinary anthology magazine that transcends the boundaries of science-fiction, fantasy, and horror. Prepare to embark on a thrilling journey through the darkest corners of the human imagination, where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the mundane transforms into a realm of unspeakable terror and awe-inspiring wonder. Within these pages, you'll discover a collection of captivating stories carefully curated to transport you to realms beyond the mundane. Each issue presents an array of unique tales crafted by talented visionaries, both established and emerging, who dare to defy conventions and push the boundaries of speculative fiction. Whether you're a seasoned lover of the fantastic or just curious to explore new frontiers, Black Sheep: Unique Tales of Terror and Wonder will be your guide through the realms of the extraordinary. Prepare to be enthralled, enchanted, haunted. So put on your dark sunglasses … and unleash your inner Black Sheep. In this issue: CLEAN-UP IN AISLE FOUR-MILLION LIGHT YEARS FROM EARTH DC Merryweather THE DONKEY TREE Robert Pettus MONEY PROBLEMS: A LEVEL HEAD STORY Nicholas Woods RETURN TO THE PLANET OF THE JEWS Philip Graubart DEATH GRADER Wayne Kyle Spitzer ROT M.D. Baker TARRAGON J.E.M. Miller THE NUMBERS Robert Delilah THE SURVIVALIST MANIFESTO Shahbaz Khayambashi UNDER A STRANGE SKY Paul Stansbury




A Fatal Inversion


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In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there, what they are doing or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms.In short, they exist. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and a child are discovered in the Hall's animal cemetery. Which woman? Whose child?










2012 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market


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The Best Resource Available for Getting Your Fiction Published For more than 30 years, Novel & Short Story Writer's Market has provided aspiring authors with the most complete and up-to-date information they need on publishing their work. This edition is the best yet, with more than 1,500 listings and more Edited byial content than ever before—with interviews and articles from industry insiders on pertinent topics like the importance of developing your prose style, creating a voice and authentic dialogue appropriate to your genre, strategies for self-publishing, and tips and tools to help you manage the time you spend on perfecting your craft. You also gain access to: • Thorough indexes that make choosing the best potential markets easier • A 1-year subscription to WritersMarket.com's searchable online database of fiction publishers (comes with print version only) • A free digital download of Writer's Yearbook featuring the 100 Best Markets Includes an exclusive 60-minute FREE WEBINAR with the staff of Writer's Digest Books that will teach you how to write query letters that get results "I can't imagine a fiction writer of any stripe not having this in their library." —James Scott Bell, author of The Art of War for Writers and Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure "This invaluable writer's resource is the foundation on which real dreams are built. A wise and necessary investment." —River Jordan, author of The Miracle of Mercy Land




MediaWriting


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Designed for those preparing to write in the current multimedia environment, MediaWriting explores: the linkages between print, broadcast, and public relations styles outlines the nature of good writing synthesizes and integrates professional skills and concepts Complete with interesting real-world examples and exercises, this textbook gives students progressive writing activities amid an environment for developing research and interviewing skills. Starting from a basis in writing news and features for print media, it moves on to writing for broadcast news media, then introduces students to public relations writing in print, broadcast, and digital media, as well as for news media and advertising venues. Rather than emphasizing the differences among the three writing styles, this book synthesizes and integrates the three concepts, weaving in basic principles of Internet writing and reporting. This book provides beginning newswriting students with a primer for developing the skills needed for work in the media industry. As such, it is a hands-on writing text for students preparing in all professional areas of communication--journalism, broadcasting, media, and public relations.




2011 Novel And Short Story Writer's Market


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Now includes a subscription to NSSWM online (the fiction section of writersmarket.com). For 28 years, Novel & Short Story Writer's Market has been the only resource of its kind exclusively for fiction writers. Anyone who is writing novels and/or storiesâ€"whether romance or literary, horror or graphic novelâ€"needs this resource to help them prepare their submissions and sell their work. You'll have access to listings for over 1,100 book publishers, magazines, literary agents, writing contests and conferences, each containing current contact information, editorial needs, schedules and guidelines that save writers time and take the guesswork out of the submission process. NSSWM includes more than 100 pages of listings for literary journals alone and another 100 pages of book publishers (easily four times as many markets for fiction writers as Writer's Market offers). It also features over a 100 pages of original content: interviews with working editors and writers, how-tos on the craft of fiction, and articles on the business of getting published.







The Inverted City


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Plagued nightly by vivid, frightening dreams where a voice constantly antagonizes him, Aryan is certain someone is waiting for him in another dimension he has yet to discover. Soon, his inability to differentiate between reality and illusion causes him to question the fundamentals of the fragmented universe he is now dwelling in. Much to his discomfort, Aryan begins a journey where he precariously treads through various surreal paradigms within his already chaotic thoughts. As echoes of his past and future mingle, Aryan encounters various characters plotting to overthrow the control of his mind. Guided through his journey by the dreamy voice of Milathe one he is meant to be withAryan battles negative ideologies and thoughts. But what Aryan does not know is that when dreams become reality, no one really knows who is master and who is slave. The Inverted City shares the tale of one mans quest to find his destiny as he walks a fine line between reality and illusion within a shadowy and disjointed universe.