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    Dreams Both Real and Strange
    Dreams Both Real and Strange
    Dreams Both Real and Strange
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    Dreams Both Real and Strange

    By K.W. McCabe

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    Choices: A Short Story
    - The Reaper requires an answer to a question: what choice would you make?

    Rebirthed: A Short Story
    - Dreams of Rebirth

    The Lake: A Short Story
    - A ghost story

    Mourning: A Short Story
    - Mourning and regrets

    Wraith: A Short Story
    - Anne is kidnapped by Wraith, and Lena must rescue her. But all three are wrapped in a web of selfishness, hatred, and cruelty- what will it take to redeem them all?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFantaFire Press
    Release dateNov 16, 2011
    ISBN9781465854254
    Dreams Both Real and Strange
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    K.W. McCabe

    K.W. McCabe is a Californian transplant to Minnesota. She lives there with her family where she tries very hard to stay warm in all the snow. She has loved fairy tales, Sci-fi, and fantasy all her life, and has been writing stories and poems of that nature since she could first spell. She has worked, in the past, as a library assistant, a baby sitter, a counseling hotline intern, and as a case manager. She maintains that art and writing can only be done when inspired, and inspiration comes from a sufficient amount of laziness. Currently, she is working on Dragon Kin. Check out her blog to get more information on how to read The Dragon's Call for free. Contact her at: http://kwmccabe.net https://twitter.com/#!/kw_mccabe http://www.facebook.com/#!/kywmccabe http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5269189.K_W_McCabe

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      Dreams Both Real and Strange - K.W. McCabe

      Dreams Both Real and Strange

      By

      K.W. McCabe

      Copyright © 2012 K.W. McCabe

      Smashwords Edition Published by FantaFire Press, LLC

      All rights reserved.

      This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are product’s of the writer’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental.

      All rights are reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any printed or electronic form without written permission from this author. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights.

      Other works by K. W. McCabe:

      Dark and Light: A Small Collection of Poetry

      Dreams Both Real and Strange II: An Anthology

      Dreams Both Real and Strange I and II: The combined Anthologies

      Fantasies of the Waking Dreamer: A Small Collection of Poetry

      Choices: A Free Short Story (Thomas Lord of Death)

      Angel of Death: A Short Story (Thomas Lord of Death)

      The Dragon’s Call

      DEDICATION

      For Yve.

      Dreams Both Real and Strange

      Book Description:

      An anthology of short stories. A collection of tiny, flash fiction fantasy, horror, and dark tales of 1,000-8,000 words in length.

      1 CHOICES (PART I)

      The night seemed darker than normal as my footsteps echoed down the alley. Refuse snapped under my feet like shriveled twigs and dry old bones. I pulled down my hood as far as I was able. I needn't have worried, though. The inhabitants of the passage, shriveled with hunger and poisonous pastimes, shrunk away from my dark form.

      I ignored them. They meant nothing to me: Their souls were as wasted as their flesh. I continued on, my path echoing behind me with a sullen rhythm. Finally, I came to the door.

      It wasn’t much of a door; it had once been pure white. Dim now, it was gray with age, cracked and peeling where the elements had worn away its vibrancy. I stood for a moment, rigid and averse to the pressures building within me. My hand rose, as it

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