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    Hallow's Ween
    Hallow's Ween
    Hallow's Ween
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    Hallow's Ween

    By Rex Jameson

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    Talented teenage witch Chloe Hallow seeks the heart of the love of her life, but when her attempts at a normal conversation fail, she falls back on what she knows best: alchemy. The resulting spell leaves an indelible stain on the small magical community of Squirrel Hill, but every year, her enduring legacy touches the world.

    Hallow's Ween is a 13,500 word short story that details the surprising, magical origins of one of our most beloved holidays.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRex Jameson
    Release dateSep 25, 2012
    ISBN9780983935162
    Hallow's Ween
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    Rex Jameson

    Rex Jameson is the author of three novels in the Primal Patterns series and half a dozen short stories. An avid history buff and an unabashed nerd with an appetite for science fiction and fantasy, he loves to create complex speculative fiction with layered characters. He earned a PhD in Computer Science at Vanderbilt University and researches distributed artificial intelligence in robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. Rex and his wife Jenny live in Pittsburgh where they enjoy hosting family and friends. Website: http://rex-jameson.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/rexjameson_fic.

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    • 3/5
      Hallow's Ween is a love story gone wrong. Chloe is in love with Jacob. Jacob doesnt see her. With the help of her friend, Maggie (who is in love with her), find a husbandry spell and decide to trick Jacob into loving Chloe. It takes a turn for the worse and Chloe ends up with more than she bargained for, and Jacob has no idea what is going on.
    • 3/5
      The author comes up with an imaginative story behind the origin of Halloween. Don't let that documentary on the origins of Halloween that has aired on the History Channel prevent you from enjoying this cautionary tale.The prologue make me chuckle because its protagonist was honest about being a jerk. On the other hand, the fate of Chloe Hallow, a girl determined to get Jacob Hope, the classmate of her dreams, is not funny. Certainly classmates Maggie and Peter weren't laughing.The teachers and librarian thought they had set safeguards to prevent students from misusing certain spells. Unfortunately, their safeguards were no match for Chloe's determination and Maggie's helpfulness. A very foolish mayor only makes things worse. Much, much worse. I could see this story becoming a half-hour episode on a spooky teen show. Happy horrors!I received this book through member giveaway in exchange for this review.
    • 4/5
      Hallow's Ween is a short story about the origin of Halloween. Chloe Hallow is a witch that is smitten with another witch. She tries to come up with a way for him to fall in love with her, but such magic is forbidden. Chloe's friend Maggie unknowingly helps Chloe find a loophole to the forbidden magic, but the end result is less than ideal. I thought this was an enjoyable and interesting story. Would recommend for a quick read to get you in the Halloween spirit!
    • 4/5
      Hallow's Ween was a short and fun story to read. During the prologue, the author leads you to believe that this story is more of a non fictional work along the lines of a fable that he's modernized about the true origin of Halloween. For those that don't realize this, it could be a bit misleading.The story itself was a fun, quick read for me. Chloe desperately seeks the attention of a boy named Jacob. So much so, she decides to make (what she thinks) is a sort of love potion. Needless to say, it goes horribly wrong. Because this is modernized fable of course there is a moral—be careful what you ask for because you just might get it. You know it's going to end badly.*I got this copy through LibraryThing's Member Giveaway program in exchange for an honest review.*Book Hollow

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    Hallow's Ween - Rex Jameson

    Hallow’s Ween

    A Holiday Origin Story

    Rex Jameson

    Smashwords Edition

    Copyright 2012 by Rex Jameson

    All rights reserved.

    ISBN (Electronic): 978-0-9839351-6-2

    This book is a work of fiction. Incidents, names, characters, and places are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual locales, events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

    Cover layout by Rex Jameson

    Edited by Homunculus Editing Services (Derek Prior)

    Table of Contents

    Title

    Back Cover

    Prologue

    Chapter 1

    Chapter 2

    Chapter 3

    Chapter 4

    Chapter 5

    Chapter 6

    Epilogue

    Acknowledgements

    About Rex Jameson

    Other Works by Rex Jameson

    Back Cover

    Talented teenage witch Chloe Hallow seeks the heart of the love of her life, but when her attempts at a normal conversation fail, she falls back on what she knows best: alchemy. The resulting spell leaves an indelible stain on the small magical community of Squirrel Hill, but every year, her enduring legacy touches the world.

    Prologue

    A funeral is a sad affair, but nothing is more dismal than what inevitably comes after the body is interred and the will is read to those allotted the small trinkets and purses that a man has come to collect throughout a humble life. I’m not speaking of some deep philosophical musings over the fact that there’s so little life left when all’s said and done. I’m specifically talking about the reaction you catch from a family member when an inheritance is less than expected—that grimace that makes you want to smack the person next to you for being so heartless. Well, unfortunately, I was that schmuck with the ungrateful look at my great grandfather’s will-reading, and there was no one with enough common sense to lay me out.

    To my parents, he had left the majority of his money—and I’m sure they are using it well. My sister gained some of the nicer furniture in the second home, and she quickly turned those old rustic pieces into a tidy profit. My brother did the same thing with the astonishingly well-maintained, fire-engine-red 1965 Ford Shelby Mustang that Papa Ray kept in the garage. Ray’s children gained the lion’s share of property and investments, and their children had their own allotments of boats, derelict businesses, and collectibles.

    To me, the author, he left an old suitcase full of mint-condition papers.

    If the lawyer had read my inheritance before my brother’s, I might have been able to maintain a straight face or even a smile, but after salivating at the small fortune my parents gained, the thousands in furniture my sister had acquired, and Johnny’s new car, I’ll admit I might have wished old Ray a shorter trip through Purgatory to Hell, or a longer one to Heaven. To make my ungrateful murmuring worse, I had to personally grab the suitcase from the attic—nearly killing myself in a mixture of broken furniture and vases a dozen times before locating the cobwebbed relic.

    I opened it on the spot, hoping that by papers he had really meant stacks of one-hundred dollar bills, and of course, I deflated a bit more when I realized the suitcase contained only a set of air-sealed scrolls. I wedged a knife along the seal of the first one and breathed the aroma of dry paper and lead-based ink. I unfurled the parchment and recognized Papa Ray’s notes in the margin, but these scribblings were unusual for the old man. He must have taken his time with penmanship here because it was damn-near readable for once!

    Copy of originals found in a stump in the Black Forest in 1944 A.D. Source documents were carbon dated in 1980 A.D. to 3200 B.C. and were written in early Sumerian during the late Uruk period. I had the originals appraised and a reputable scholar claimed the legend was unlikely to have originated in Sumer proper and was almost certainly transcribed from an earlier history and shipped south. The advanced civilization described here is assuredly destroyed, but I know not by what. Because of other items found in the stump, I have reason to believe the documents

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