Transcendence

by Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Jennifer Brozek (Introduction)

Overview

What Will You Discover Between the Darkness and the Light?

When the mortal coil wears thin and the great unknown draws nigh you might spy the narrow gap between the mystical and the mundane. You might even notice something’s looking back.

Transcendence takes a hard look at humanity in nine tales of difficult choices, great rewards, and journeys beyond expectation.

• In Skippy, Don does not like what he sees in the mirror…but will he survive it?
• A Fury finds form—and retribution—in The Kindly One.
• If I Had the Chance takes do-overs to a new level.
• Aisa has a death-ly choice to make in The Misses Moirai.
• Ruby Red sweeps you away in a dance on the edge of madness.
• Purgatory is when you think you’re damned…hell is when you are right…
• Fredrich tries to drown his sorrows in Stoli and Solitude.
• For Camirel finding purpose means total transformation in Emberling.
• Transcendence…where you look into the heart of a star and find yourself.

The extraordinary awaits… will you step beyond the bounds of commonplace existence?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781942990635
Publisher:	eSpec Books
Publication date:	07/31/2017
Pages:	134
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Award-winning author and editor Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for longer than she cares to admit. In 2014 she joined forces with husband Mike McPhail and friend Greg Schauer to form her own publishing house, eSpec Books (www.especbooks.com). Her published works include six novels, Yesterday's Dreams, Tomorrow's Memories, Today's Promise, The Halfling's Court, The Redcaps' Queen, and Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn, written with Day Al-Mohamed. She is also the author of the solo collections A Legacy of Stars, Consigned to the Sea, Flash in the Can, and Transcendence, the non-fiction writers' guide, The Literary Handyman, and is the senior editor of the Bad-Ass Faeries anthology series, Gaslight & Grimm, Dragon's Lure, and In an Iron Cage. Her short stories are included in numerous other anthologies and collections. She is a member of Broad Universe, a writer's organization focusing on promoting the works of women authors in the speculative genres. Danielle lives in New Jersey with husband and fellow writer, Mike McPhail and three extremely spoiled cats. She can be found on Facebook (Danielle Ackley-McPhail) and Twitter (DMcPhail). To learn more about her work, visit www.sidhenadaire.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Jennifer Brozek

Skippy / with introduction by John G. Hartness

Dervish

The Kindly One / with introduction by John Grant

If I Had the Chance / with introduction by L. Jagi Lamplighter

Beloved

The Misses Moirai / with introduction by Misty Massey

Luna

Ruby Red / with introduction by Lillian Cohen-Moore

Portrait of a Green Mother

Purgatory / with introduction by C.J. Henderson

Death

Stoli and Solitude / with introduction by Tonia Brown

Emberling / with introduction by Gail Z. Martin

Transcendence / with introduction by Paul Levinson

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Bonus Story: On the Wings of an Angel

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