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    Nancy Werlock's Diary: 'Til Death Do Us Part
    Nancy Werlock's Diary: 'Til Death Do Us Part
    Nancy Werlock's Diary: 'Til Death Do Us Part
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    Nancy Werlock's Diary: 'Til Death Do Us Part

    By Julie Ann Dawson

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    Nancy Werlock didn't want to take over the family business. Unfortunately for her fate, and a bunch of conniving spirits, have other plans. Now Nancy finds herself fumbling through exorcisms and sorting applications for a new apprentice. Because for Werlock women, the family business is demonology. And at the Three Wishes Boutique, the customer may not always be right, but he may possessed.

    Three Nancy Werlock stories (12,200 approximate word count)

    Rank and File
    Something is killing Justicars, a lemure is still on the loose, and the Nine are still poking their noses into her business. But Nancy’s biggest problem right now is making sure Houston doesn’t embarrass her by failing his Rank Five Trials.

    The Lemure
    Lee the Lemure isn’t exactly cooperating with Nancy’s plans to capture and banish him. When he shows up at her shop asking to talk, Nancy realizes she may have stumbled across the first unbound demon that feeds its vice by being...nice?

    ‘Til Death Do Us Part
    In a political gambit to counter the still mysterious plots of the Lord Advocate of the Eights of the Nine, Nancy agrees to apply for her Rank Two trials. Unfortunately, the trials involve performing a dangerous binding ritual she isn’t sure she is ready for. More unfortunate, her apprentice has hatched a plot of his own to help her than might make the matter worse.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBards and Sages Publishing
    Release dateJan 10, 2014
    ISBN9781310484322
    Nancy Werlock's Diary: 'Til Death Do Us Part
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    Julie Ann Dawson

    Julie Ann Dawson is an author, editor, publisher, RPG designer, and advocate for writers who may occasionally require the services of someone with access to Force Lightning (and in case it was not obvious, a bit of a geek). Her work has appeared in a variety of print and digital media, including such diverse publications as the New Jersey Review of Literature, Lucidity, Black Bough, Poetry Magazine, Gareth Blackmore’s Unusual Tales, Demonground, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and others. In 2002 she started her own publishing company, Bards and Sages. The company has gone from having two titles to over one hundred titles between their print and digital products. In 2009, she launched the Bards and Sages Quarterly, a literary journal of speculative fiction. Since 2012, she has served as a judge for the IBPA's Benjamin Franklin Awards.

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      Nancy Werlock's Diary - Julie Ann Dawson

      Nancy Werlock’s Diary:

      ‘Til Death Do Us Part

      By Julie Ann Dawson

      ©2014 Julie Ann Dawson

      Bards and Sages Publishing

      Bellmawr, NJ

      www.bardsandsages.com

      Smashwords Edition

      Three Nancy Werlock short stories

      Rank and File

      Something is killing Justicars, a lemure is still on the loose, and the Nine are still poking their noses into her business. But Nancy’s biggest problem right now is making sure Houston doesn’t embarrass her by failing his Rank Five Trials.

      The Lemure

      Lee the Lemure isn’t exactly cooperating with Nancy’s plans to capture and banish him. When he shows up at her shop asking to talk, Nancy realizes she may have stumbled across the first unbound demon that feeds its vice by being…nice?

      ‘Til Death Do Us Part

      In a political gambit to counter the still mysterious plots of the Lord Advocate of the Eights of the Nine, Nancy agrees to apply for her Rank Two trials. Unfortunately, the trials involve performing a dangerous binding ritual she isn’t sure she is ready for. More unfortunate, her apprentice has hatched a plot of his own to help her than might make the matter worse.

      Cover art by

      Alessandro Paivaartist

      These stories are works of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living, dead, or undead is coincidental and vaguely disturbing.

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      Rank and File

      July 10th,

      Sonny is dead.

      Steve called me this morning with the news. Sonny had been in the area to assist Steve with a rogue lemure. It had taken over the body of a dead drug addict and was now a full blown skinwalker. I knew Sonny from a few symposiums I attended while in college. I was just appeasing my mom at the time. He struck me as a smarmy guy. Never looked me in the eye because he was too busy looking at my boobs. But his leering aside, he was a damn good Justicar.

      Mundane doctors at Our Lady of Lourdes ruled it a heart attack. They are transporting his body to Lansfield Funeral Services, which is a cover for the Lansfield Necromancer’s Guild, for a proper autopsy. Sonny was a smoker and heavy drinker, but he was also a Justicar. He was someone trained to engage in both magical and physical combat with everything from rogue mages to godlings. Justicars don’t just fall over from heart attacks.

      Steve isn’t sure if it the lemure killed him or something else. Something else being whatever it is that killed Anatole and two other Justicars over the last year. He says that the Council is calling Court to determine a course of action. He’s afraid they aren’t going to be able to keep what is going on a secret much longer.

      I ask him what he intends to do about Lee Brennon, the lemure turned skinwalker. For now, that problem is on the back burner unless evidence turns up that he killed Sonny. The lemure has been surprisingly docile since taking over the body. For the most part, it has stayed at Brennon’s parents’ home. When it has left the house, it was in the company of one or both of his parents.

      "He took his mom to see Monsters University, says Steve. What the Hell is up with that? Demon taking an old lady to a kid movie? What the Hell kinda vice does that feed?"

      Adults watch those movies, too, I say. I realize I sound way too defensive. But I liked Monsters University. Fortunately, I had my niece with me as a cover at the time.

      The short of it is that Lee the Lemure seems content to just play the role of the devoted son for now, and therefore is a low priority unless he was involved in Sonny’s death.

      Which is fine with me, as I have

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