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    Reconstructionist Series: Short Story Bundle
    Reconstructionist Series: Short Story Bundle
    Reconstructionist Series: Short Story Bundle
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    Reconstructionist Series: Short Story Bundle

    By Meghan Ciana Doidge

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    This bundle contains the following short stories set in the Reconstructionist Series:

    The Graveyard Kiss (Reconstructionist 0.5)
    Dawn Bytes (Reconstructionist 1.5)
    An Uncut Key (Reconstructionist 2.5))

    To avoid spoilers the ideal reading order is:
    The Graveyard Kiss (Reconstructionist 0.5)
    Catching Echoes (Reconstructionist 1)
    Dawn Bytes (Reconstructionist 1.5)
    Tangled Echoes (Reconstructionist 2)
    An Uncut Key (Reconstructionist 2.5)
    Unleashing Echoes (Reconstructionist 3)

    The Reconstructionist Series is apart of the Adept Universe, which also includes the Dowser and Oracle Series by Meghan Ciana Doidge. While it is not necessary to read all three series, in order to avoid spoilers the ideal reading order of the Adept Universe is as follows:

    Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser 1)
    Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Bloody Magic (Dowser 2)
    Treasures, Demons, and Other Black Magic (Dowser 3)
    I See Me (Oracle 1)
    Shadows, Maps, and Other Ancient Magic (Dowser 4)
    Maps, Artifacts, and Other Arcane Magic (Dowser 5)
    I See You (Oracle 2)
    Artifacts, Dragons, and Other Lethal Magic (Dowser 6)
    I See Us (Oracle 3)
    The Graveyard Kiss (Reconstructionist 0.5)
    Catching Echoes (Reconstructionist 1)
    Dawn Bytes (Reconstructionist 1.5)
    Tangled Echoes (Reconstructionist 2)
    An Uncut Key (Reconstructionist 2.5)
    Unleashing Echoes (Reconstructionist 3)

    Other books in the Dowser series to follow.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMeghan Ciana Doidge
    Release dateSep 28, 2017
    ISBN9781927850671
    Reconstructionist Series: Short Story Bundle
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    Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Meghan Ciana Doidge writes tales of true love conquering all, even death. Though sometimes the love is elusive, the vampires and werewolves come out to play in the daylight, and bloody mayhem ensues.

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      Reconstructionist Series - Meghan Ciana Doidge

      Reconstructionist Series

      Reconstructionist Series

      Short Story Bundle

      Meghan Ciana Doidge

      Old Man in the CrossWalk Productions

      Contents

      Author’s Note

      SPOILER WARNING

      The Graveyard Kiss (Reconstructionist 0.5)

      Acknowledgements for The Graveyard Kiss

      Dawn Bytes (Reconstructionist 1.5)

      Acknowledgments for Dawn Bytes

      An Uncut Key (Reconstructionist 2.5)

      Acknowledgements for An Uncut Key

      The Adept Universe by MCD

      About the Author

      Also by Meghan Ciana Doidge

      Author’s Note:

      This bundle contains three short stories set in the Reconstructionist series, which is set in the same universe as the Dowser and Oracle series.

      While it is not necessary to read all three series, in order to avoid spoilers the ideal reading order of the Adept Universe is as follows:

      Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser 1)

      Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Bloody Magic (Dowser 2)

      Treasures, Demons, and Other Black Magic (Dowser 3)

      I See Me (Oracle 1)

      Shadows, Maps, and Other Ancient Magic (Dowser 4)

      Maps, Artifacts, and Other Arcane Magic (Dowser 5)

      I See You (Oracle 2)

      Artifacts, Dragons, and Other Lethal Magic (Dowser 6)

      I See Us (Oracle 3)

      The Graveyard Kiss (Reconstructionist 0.5)

      Catching Echoes (Reconstructionist 1)

      Dawn Bytes (Reconstructionist 1.5)

      Tangled Echoes (Reconstructionist 2)

      An Uncut Key (Reconstructionist 2.5)

      Unleashing Echoes (Reconstructionist 3)

      Other books in the Dowser series to follow.

      www.madebymeghan.ca/novels

      SPOILER WARNING

      PLEASE DO NOT READ OUT OF ORDER.

      Each of the following short stories contain major spoilers for the books that precede them in the reading order.

      The ideal reading order of the Reconstructionist Series is as follows:

      The Graveyard Kiss (Reconstructionist 0.5)

      Catching Echoes (Reconstructionist 1)

      Dawn Bytes (Reconstructionist 1.5)

      Tangled Echoes (Reconstructionist 2)

      An Uncut Key (Reconstructionist 2.5)

      Unleashing Echoes (Reconstructionist 3)

      PLEASE DO NOT READ OUT OF ORDER.

      The Graveyard Kiss (Reconstructionist 0.5)

      ’T is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all  — but really? Is it ?

      Luci, a true believer in Victorian love poetry, is about to find out whether her teenaged heart and soul is up to surviving a boyfriend who prefers elegies … and the ancient evil he might have dug up on the Internet.

      When she turned twelve, Lucy changed her name to Luci. Then, at fourteen, she added the little heart over the letter i. But now at sixteen, she was starting to worry that the name itself was a little … frivolous. Not that she condemned anyone else who liked being frivolous, and she certainly thought of herself as being fun. She totally cheered for school teams, painted her toes in bright pinks, and — since she’d started wearing one two years ago — always made sure her bra matched her underwear.

      Still, she’d just entered her last year of high school and maybe Luci-with-a-heart-over-the-i just wasn’t her anymore. Unfortunately, when in search of a more serious moniker, she’d asked her mom what Luci was short for or who she’d been named after. Her mom hadn’t had any interesting answers — except that Luci could change her name after she turned eighteen and at her own expense.

      Thus foiled, she was forced to sign her most recent love note Luci-with-a-little-heart-over-the-i even though it conflicted with the serious tenor of the message.

      How do I love thee? Let me count the —

      Her pink sparkle pencil slid with a smooth sort of grip across the register tape. Luci always liked writing in pencil. Not that she ever had to erase anything, but because she liked the sound of it. The register tape, pilfered from the register of the card shop where she worked, was streaked with red, though in some other stores those warning lines were streaks of green or blue. They let the cashier know when the tape had to be changed. And since the end bits were unenvironmentally thrown out, Luci had no issue with using the neat little rolls to pass love notes. Or, much more specifically, to carry a bit of her heart and poetry to her boyfriend, Colby. When starting one of these notes — as she just had — she always made sure to draw the O in Colby’s name as a heart as well. She was really big on symmetry.

      Luci had gotten the job at the card shop after the Christmas holidays. She would have preferred working at the Body Shop or Lush, but they hadn’t been looking for anyone when she was looking for a bit of cash. She was lucky the card shop had been hiring. Their regular part-timer had taken off to travel for a year. Having an extra excuse to be out of the house on Thursdays from five to nine and Sundays from one to five was a bonus for Luci. Sundays, according to her stepfather, were supposed to be family days.

      Years ago, she’d been the one who rubbed garlic powder all over the roast and made the gravy, but now she was a vegetarian. Well, she’d eat chicken if it was free range and fish if it was certified Ocean Wise. But other than that, no meat. Despite her stepfather’s insistence, this no-meat policy wasn’t simply an ongoing attempt to piss him off, but rather the result of recently viewing a bunch of documentaries that had really grossed Luci and

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