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    Soot & Cassandra
    Soot & Cassandra
    Soot & Cassandra
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    Soot & Cassandra

    By Dave Freer

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    Soot the almost black cat guards the portal between here and otherwhere along with his witch. They must defend it against werewolves, trolls, faerie and worst, the humans of suburbia.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDave Freer
    Release dateNov 24, 2011
    ISBN9781465930569
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      Soot & Cassandra - Dave Freer

      SOOT & CASSANDRA

      by

      DAVE FREER

      Soot & Cassandra by Dave Freer Copyright 2011.

      Smashwords Edition. Electronic edition published by Dave Freer, November 2011.

      All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction, in whole or in part in any form. This short story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      An earlier version of this story, titled SOOT, to which I own the non-exclusive rights, was published in the Anthology ‘Witch Way to the Mall’, edited by Esther Friesner, 2009 which is not available at present on Smashwords in electronic format. SOOT & CASSANDRA IS MINE EXCLUSIVELY.

      About the author : Dave Freer is the author or co-author of some 17 novels (hard to keep track) including SLOW TRAIN TO ARCTURUS, which was listed as a Wall Street Journal sf bestseller. Various other books have been on Locus bestseller lists. He is also the author of a large number of shorter works. For a complete list and work which for contractual reasons will be available nowhere else see http://davefreer.com/ . He lives on a remote island off the coast of Australia. For more about this and links to other sites see his Smashwords Author’s page.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not

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