S. H Marpel
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In the days when people were owned by the land, two young girls found their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides.
This is their origin-story...
Their parents were serfs, and belonged to two different dukedoms. Falling in love endangered them both. Becoming pregnant with twins made this even worse.
Their Dad had to raise them by himself, as Mother died shortly after birthing them. But as a spirit, she remained on Earth to watch over them....
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It started with a dream.
In it, John Earl Stark solved the problem of a ghost he met. Or did he? It was a dream, after all.
The next day he meets two women who visit his cabin, arriving out of the blue, literally. (Well, one arrived with pitched black darkness which filled his cabin and made her cough.)
These two have an offer for Stark. All he really wanted was to enjoy the small cabin and solitude so he could write his detective stories.
These...
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Facing a fireball storm and living to tell about it wasn't in John's plans for the day.
But when he and his two female spirit guides were caught behind a red subcompact taking hit after hit of fireballs, someone had to do something. Because they could only keep taking those hits for so long.
Something in what he said made one of the girls step up and get the attention of whoever was throwing those fireballs at them. A distraction long enough for...
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Gods and goddesses roamed the earth for millennia.
Some hold that they still do.
Two babes were born in the King's Forest, hunted by the King's soldiers and two Duke's armies. Life there was protected - and as pleasant as living among wild animals with only your father could be.
For their mother died in childbirth, and became a spirit-guide for that forest, keeping the land, plants, and animals in balance. Meanwhile, she helped her mortal husband...
5) Time Bent
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Time haunted her. It didn't do what it was "supposed to" when she was around.
It ran forward, backwards, sideways. Sometimes time helped her solve her problems, sometimes it made them worse. For a lovely young woman, you'd think there would be young men lined up to talk to her at any gathering. But, she stayed away from them - to protect them from her curse.
What would be the good of a commitment like that if the other person was going to age too...
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"Well, this is curious - I've only got papers to take one of you."My two latest deaths stood in front of me."The other is supposed to keep on living. But here you both are."Neither spoke to volunteer which was which."So, you both intend to keep on living, in spite of my orders to take one of you."Silence signaled assent."You know that no one has ever cheated Death. Just because you have some spirit-guides looking out for you doesn't mean I won't end...
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I felt like a ghost.I'd only met him once, but was drawn to him like a moth to flame.And didn't know why.It was this author I wanted to see, but I didn't know if he wanted to see me.He left me an autographed book of his, with his number.But then I lost that book before I could call.So I found he came to this diner often, a regular. It was where we first met. And It didn't take much to get his schedule from the waitress.So now, right time and right...
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The last she remembered of her childhood was being trapped in a stone chapel.
At the single door were a mob of villagers with torches she formerly thought were her friends.
Once those doors were broken down, none would enter. But a torch was thrown inside anyway.
Somehow, a wall of flame erupted at the entrance. She and her sister looked at each other as if to say "that wasn't mine". Because they had both learned that trick from their mother.
But...
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The result of all these civil wars was complete destruction.
Maybe we should have taken a hint from all those wars we fought "over there" and the footage came back showing entire cities now only towering, shattered icons that stood in piles of rubble.
Uninhabited. uninhabitable.
Yet this one woman stayed there. This was her new home, she repeated stubbornly. She wasn't leaving. Even though it meant eventual death.
If the warring armies didn't...
10) Gaia
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The Sum of the Whole is Greater Than Its Parts.
So Gaia was taught since she came into this existence.
But, she was named after the Nature goddess. Long centuries and eons passed while she was submerged in rock beneath the thin surface layers that living creatures inhabited.
Now some imbalance had awakened her. She rose to the surface to claim her own, her rightful place in the whole world, not just beneath it.
What she found surprised even an...
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Rose still doesn't know why she, survived the accident and everyone else was dead.
It was horrible. And, she hasn't been able to cry since. Even at the graveyard where she was now. And then, she looked over a few rows and saw a guy standing in front of a grave marker of his own. He looked too sad for someone that good looking.
She came over to see if she could console him, help him somehow. His name was Tom, and he had the most amazing eyes she'd...
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To rescue a 12,000 year old ghost, you have to learn to breathe water.
Our next mystery to solve was the toughest yet. We thought ourselves prepared to deal with being submerged several hundred feet below the surface.
My question was how to communicate with something who was older than all civilization as we knew it. What did it have in common with our modern culture? How to talk through an energy shield built to withstand the pressures of that...
13) Freed
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Four women, all invited to Earth, with unique super-abilities - who each could save or destroy humankind.
Each came to this planet for their own reasons, deeply flawed. Victims of time and circumstance.
Any one of these, just by themselves, could end all life on this planet in a heartbeat.
Why would anyone want to assemble a team of feminine time bombs?
Maybe to get them to save their own lives...
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Tesseracts fold time and space. I inherited the ability to both find and control them.
Unlimited access to all universes. Sort of.
Yea, freaky. I know too well how freaky.
So, I spent my life on the move, through many times, and many spaces. Forgetting where and when I'd been, wasn't an option. My salvation was mastering the trick of retracing my path. To find my original home, to find the love I'd lived so long without.
It wasn't just missing...
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"JOHN, I JUST MET A ghost who's dying." I raised one eyebrow, waiting for the punchline from my favorite time-bender." No, it's not what you think. I haven't gone off the deep end. The government made him into something they call a ghost.” Figure if the government's involved, then it's going to be screwed up...But a ghost, dying?” Running out of juice, actually. Kept alive on some sort of weird life support that he won't fix to save himself.”...
16) Harpy Spawn
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Sunset found me trying to understand why the small herd I was caring for was nervous and bawling.It wasn't long before I saw what they were looking up at. Or rather, who.Three human-sized females, each with broad wings, were circling the herd, as if looking for their evening meal.As I saw them, they spied me – and started dropping from the sky right toward the spot I stood on.Since I couldn't outrun them, I just stood there so see if I was going...
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In the days when people were owned by the land, two young girls found their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides. This is their origin-story...
Their parents were serfs, and belonged to two different dukedoms. Falling in love endangered them both. Becoming pregnant with twins made this even worse.
Their Dad had to raise them by himself, as Mother died shortly after birthing them. But her spirit remained on Earth to watch over them. Sal and...
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Where I had come from, how I had got here, I didn't know.
All I knew were my powers, the one's I knew from my childhood. The one's I'd spent my youth learning and perfecting. Witchcraft that could kill someone, or save their life.
But, now I was here in a strange world, different people, unusual customs...
I didn't even know if my spells would work here - or if they burned witches at the stake - or tortured non-witches.
And, on top of that I was...
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The adventures of the Ghost Hunters continue - with more exotic locations and hair-raising paranormal adventures than ever before:
- Visiting a haunted planet where the normal is falling between two worlds, while John winds up solving being in a coma, away from his body.
- The goddes Harpy returns with a simple request for John, a personal and very human one.
- Sal has to help John sort out a mental mis-thinking that could kill him off unless unraveled.
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Walking down the highway barefoot, feverish, and in only a nightgown.
At least the storm had quit. Now if I could get my chattering teeth to stop, it would help, maybe.
Up ahead, I see some stopped cars. Some have their lights on. Maybe I can get help. Too bad I can't travel any faster the way I am.
That's odd. Nobody in them. Lights on, but no one at home.
Except for a crying baby. And no one answers my calls either.
No, I can't leave her alone....