Words Of The Ancients
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Words Of The Ancients: An archaeology team finds a perfectly preserved crypt with a surprisingly intelligent farm animal.
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Venom In The Cloud Forest: A young man suspects someone has been changing past tribal records.
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The One That Damned Me: A high school counselor’s life is ruined when he is wrongly accused by a cocaine snorting student.
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In The Beginning: A retelling of Adam and Eve’s fall from grace, with a cosmic twist.
Farewell, Odysseus: A genetically enhanced super-human has to make an important choice about the person he keeps as a pet.
Human Contact: A college student heads to a party, gets high and drunk, and ends up having a night that will forever change lives.
Hiro’s Festival: A little boy who dreams of freedom has his wish fulfilled and is magically transformed.
Idle Horns: A horned demon of hell born to eternally torture the damned walks off the job.
The Mind Reader: An outspoken bar patron runs an experiment to see if the world can be divided into the “weak” and the “strong” in attempt to prove he’s not an authoritarian fascist.
I, von Economo: A woman goes back to get revenge on the man who forced her soul into a new body.
Love Sounds: A mother suffering from mental illness wants to help plan her daughter’s wedding.
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About the Author
T. LUCAS EARLE is a fiction and TV writer. In his professional life he has been a factory w
orker, a robot for music videos, a stunt man, and a puppy wrangler. His short stories have been published in Electric Spec, New Myths, The Baltimore Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles with a retired racing greyhound. Find him at here.