A Tryst of Fate, Blanket of a Mind—Leigh Anne Harre
No tern unstoned—Dale Davis
Genie Ass; Talent of immunity to all elixirs—Naomi Blose
Mobius Strip, meet he/her shower, typo as a blood type, talent of growing instant fur, stud farm, cold snap—Mary Rashford
Sidetrack—Stefano Migneco
Dust Bunnies—Sam Doherty
Talent of sewing garments imbued with talents—Susan Taylor
Kidney beans with stones—Douglas Brown
Renee, making folk briefly younger—Renee Fourman
Rick O’Shea, cops or copse—Kari Lambert
Ruby—credit lost, frustratingly.
Naval Oranges go to sea—Richard Van Fossan
Elder Berry, Anony Mouse—Tom Pfarrer
D Louse—Bear Rollins
Can A Bull, Can’t A Bull, Propel Her, Propel Him—Jestin Larson
Hamsterdam—Joshua Davenport-Herbst
World of Talent—Emma Archambault
Talent of combining two creatures into a crossbreed—Kenneth Adams.
Creating accommodation spells—Ann Marie Mohrmann
Have a wheelchair bound person in Xanth—Lester Gregg, Jr.
Have a blind person in Xanth—Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews
Conjuring a wet blanket, making a sun burn—Sara Cornelius
Crop Top—Jonathan Holland
Maisy growing mazes—Javier Valdez
Talent of seeing smells—Linnea Solomon, who was age 11 when she sent this in 2015; she may be older now.
Pleasant Trees—Steve Pfarrer
Ass sets—John at Mazes.com
Backup—John Knoderer
Garter Snake—Terence Vickers
Hurry-cane—Cal Humrich
And my credit to my proofreaders, Scott M Ryan, Anne White, and John Knoderer. They chase down the errors that grow on the page after I do my editing of the manuscript.
If you enjoyed this novel and want to know more of me, you can check my website at www.HiPiers.com, where I do a monthly blog-type column, have news of my new projects, express my ongoing opinionations, and maintain an ongoing survey of electronic publishers for the benefit of aspiring writers.
More anon, when.
About the Author
Piers Anthony has written dozens of bestselling science fiction and fantasy novels. Perhaps best known for his long-running Magic of Xanth series, many of which are New York Times bestsellers, he has also had great success with the Incarnations of Immortality series and the Cluster series, as well as Bio of a Space Tyrant and others. Much more information about Piers Anthony can be found at www.HiPiers.com.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2020 by Piers Anthony
Cover design by Amanda Shaffer
ISBN: 978-1-5040-6028-8
This edition published in 2021 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
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