Posted on October 7, 2019 by Crystalwizard
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The Golden Beetle or Why the Dog Hates the Cat Chinese Folk Tale “What we shall eat to-morrow, I haven’t the slightest idea!” said Widow Wang to her eldest son, as he started out one morning in search of work. “Oh, the gods will…
Posted on July 18, 2019 by Crystalwizard
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The Facilitator Lyn McConchie Wizard Bingelgretson focused his spell through his facilitator and spoke the release word clearly. There was a tingling in the air as a cloud of smoke flattened out and developed a shining surface. A silver surround crawled around that and…
Category: Fiction, Fantasy Tags: bloss, blossom, bos, cat, facilitator, familiar, imp, Lyn, magic, mcconchie, wizard
Posted on April 22, 2019 by Crystalwizard
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Persian Fairy Tales The Cat and the Mouse According to the decree of Heaven, there once lived in the Persian city of Kerman, a cat like unto a dragon–a longsighted cat who hunted like a lion; a cat with fascinating eyes and long whiskers…
Posted on December 1, 2018 by Crystalwizard
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I peeked past the barely-open door at a little girl sitting cross-legged on a pink bedspread, paging through a picture book. A small child like I’d seen at the campsite, who was just old enough to run around and get into everything. Her…
Category: Fantasy, Fiction, Serials Tags: cat, child, davies, Dichall, dog, eve, fae, faerie, fairy, jim, pixiedrowner
Posted on November 2, 2018 by Crystalwizard
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A while, and a short nap, later, the human reached into the handbag. We gingerly held up her keys, and as soon as she had the slightest grip on them, we let go. I must have been breathing hard, because Gretchen rested her paw…
Category: Fantasy, Fiction, Serials Tags: cat, council, councilmice, davies, Dichall, eve, jim, micean, pixiedrowner
Posted on October 24, 2018 by Crystalwizard
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Night in the City Lyn McConchie It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents and in the great city no one was abroad who could have stayed in shelter. Only the poor and the unfortunate were outside and even they…
Posted on October 24, 2018 by Crystalwizard
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Bath Salts and Bedlam Lyn McConchie Our local senior constable was here again today asking if I’d seen some missing bloke. I could have sworn he said was named Bob Jonquil. I didn’t take it the wrong way, I’d seen Joe coming from my…
Category: Fantasy, Fiction, Urban Fantasy Tags: bath, bathsalts, bedlam, cat, crooks, geese, Lyn, mcconchie, water
Posted on October 4, 2018 by Crystalwizard
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Treasure Lyn McConchie Joe Tremain was a man of mostly average description. He was medium height, medium build, medium colouring, medium circumstances, and middle-aged. His parents – dying young – had left him a house that had one bedroom, a loft that had been…
Posted on October 1, 2018 by Crystalwizard
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We heard the muffled barking of Lolabelle through the leather: “Uh, be careful, there’s a cat in the apartment who’s not the biggest fan of the Micean Council.”
We glanced at each other, not quite so comfortable anymore…
Category: Fantasy, Fiction, Serials Tags: cat, council, davies, Dichall, diplomat, eve, jim, lolabelle, mice, micean, pixiedrowner
Posted on March 6, 2018 by Crystalwizard
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Nemo on the Shore Gary Inbinder “To say ‘He was a young fool, and now he’s an old fool’ is to make a distinction without a difference.” — Kafka the Cat The time was May in the not too distant past; the place, a…
Posted on November 11, 2017 by Crystalwizard
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The Fattest Cat’s Car Keys By Kendall Evans The sound a thunderous final exclamation of the world mountainous boulders rolling down slopes in a place where mountains will be no longer constant din of objects falling from the sky impacting earth …
Category: Fiction, Science Fiction Tags: car, cat, elspeth, entanglment, evans, fat, fattest, kendall, keys, quantum, su, sue
Posted on August 7, 2017 by Crystalwizard
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Out of Hades Herb Kauderer Persephone’s cat counts the days to equinox coolness of summer. first appeared in Stinkwaves Oct 2016
Posted on April 7, 2017 by Crystalwizard
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On Considering Alicia Austin Lyn McConchie I walked out one May morning to see a cat up in a tree, I gazed at her – she gazed at me. “You foolish cat,” I muttered, “You’re meant to be below. Cats are meant to walk…
Posted on August 7, 2016 by Crystalwizard
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Robo-Cat® David C. Kopaska-MerkelNo messy hairballs with Robo-Cat® Pet is pre-programmed and pre-trained, but be forewarned: Though great to have around the house, Robo-Cat® Is extremely playful; be sure to secure your computer mouses This is one high-maintenance mechanical pet Picking mouse gears from…
Category: Poetry, Science Fiction Tags: cat, david, fiction, merkel, poem, poetry, robo, robo-cat, robot, science