The Big Palooka (and Other Stories)

The Big Palooka (and Other Stories)

Ruthanne Reid

Ruthanne Reid

Note: All these stories are on my site. If you want to purchase one to support my coffee habit, I'd be forever grateful.The Big PalookaFlappers. Vampires. A thug who stole a necklace and a speak-easy with Jazz to die for. A short, cute story set in New York City in the 1920s.Shadow SeedA certain Crow King ruminates to his newest lover about his future plans.WolfJust a word of advice: If you see him, don't run.
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Club Hedgie (and Other Stories)

Club Hedgie (and Other Stories)

Ruthanne Reid

Ruthanne Reid

Note: All these stories are on my website! If you want to buy one to support my coffee habit, I'd be forever grateful. Club HedgieThis has nothing to do with anything, except that it's about a hedgehog who thinks he's a fairy, so maybe it's important after all.The Doctor Will See You NowA sleep-deprived elf prince. An open-minded doctor. Weird physical therapy. A terrible pun.Dante's InfernoA different take on the Princess and the Frog. I apologize for the pun in the title. (Pfft, who am I kidding? I apologize for nothing.)
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The Sundered

The Sundered

Ruthanne Reid

Ruthanne Reid

The world I know is flooded. You don't go in the water. You don't touch it. If you do, it will get you, drag you down, and you're gone.Harry Iskinder knows the rules. Don’t touch the water, or it will pull you under. Conserve food, because there’s no arable land. Use Sundered slaves gently, or they die too quickly to be worthwhile.With extinction on the horizon and a world lost to deadly flood, Harry searches for a cure: the Hope of Humanity, the mysterious artifact that gave humans control over the Sundered centuries ago. According to legend, the Hope can fix the planet.But the Hope holds more secrets than Harry knows. Powerful Sundered Ones willingly bow to him just to get near it. Ambitious enemies pursue him, sure that the Hope is a weapon. Friends turn their backs, afraid Harry will choose wrong.And Harry has a choice to make. The time for sharing the Earth is done. Either the Sundered survive and...
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Strings

Strings

Ruthanne Reid

Ruthanne Reid

Need help? You probably shouldn't ask Grey.He's a runaway Fey prince in New York City. He feeds on love like some kind of vampire. He really doesn't like people. Grey has no plans to be a hero, but when magical monsters from childhood attack, his plans go up in smoke.
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Seed

Seed

Ruthanne Reid

Ruthanne Reid

Two short stories set between Half-Shell Prophecies and Notte (coming late 2017)* * *SEED 1: RAVENAFor Notte, family always comes first. Everyone knows it, and the end of the world only makes it more true... even if it can be used against him.SEED 2: TERRANCEHe'd always been too much for most people. A trickster, an ingénu, a cleric, a thief. Now, he's a Night Child - one of Notte's favorite vampiric offspring - and at last, he's been asked to do something that might be too much for him.
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Nero is Mad, of Course

Nero is Mad, of Course

Ruthanne Reid

Ruthanne Reid

NOTE: These stories are on my site. If you want to purchase one to support my coffee habit, I'd be forever grateful.Nero is Mad, of CourseA mad Roman emperor. An ancient depressed vampire. A bizarre evening to remind the Blood King why life is worth living.
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