Victoria Bastedo

T.E.D.D.I.E. B.E.A.R. In S.P.A.C.E.

Exili's Excellent Elucidation Services: Satisfaction Guarantee: 'If You Die, You Won't be Billed.' Much easier, isn't it, to elucidate the clues after the victims are safely dead, like other detectives get to do? But Exili prefers walking through danger with his clients, thereby preventing their demise. Using his fabulous, deciphering feet he senses emanations of murderous evil towards the Flintelf, Goodall. The very least the creature could do is hire him. Either Goodall will see the murderer's shadow rising up behind him, or Exili's four-foot shade waving the bill. The Flintelf is going to pay one way or another.

Flintelf

There were legends about Moordym Downs, that the Moor had given up the stones to build the castle, and that sometimes the Moordyms gave back one of their own in payment. People disappeared out in the rugged, untamed distance and were never heard from again. Still, Locke couldn't seem to resist the call of the undulating landscape. Inside the castle, the walls were steeped in dangerous secrets, but no mystery was as pressing as the blood that ran in his veins. Who was his father, and had he disappeared into the Moor? Soon Locke is running for his life. No more time to find true love with Jinslee, a headstrong young woman from the village who was a doctor-in-training. He might be drawn to disappear into the mysterious Moor forever.

Moordym Downs

Rachel Barnard

Casondra Brewster

An anthology presenting a diversity of visions, ideas and genres interpreted in seven short stories and ten works of art. Created for enjoyment by all ages, on the theme: The Lost Train. A cooperative collection from FVP Books Authors and NBA&I Artists. Proceeds benefit non-profit Arts organization: North Bend Arts & Industry. An old train lost on an abandoned stretch of tracks inspires teens to imagine haunting train whistles in the night and other RAILWAY TALES. By Jeffrey Cook * Paired Artist: Lesia Tiongson. A tale of a mysterious gold heist follows a lost train of the past into the forest to find THE SHANGHAIED TRAIN. By David S. Moore * Paired Artist: Leslie Kreher. A young woman finds herself AT A LOSS when her train of thought careens through modern life and a state of 'great collective trauma'. By Casondra Brewster * Paired Artist: Gayll Morrison. A remarkable coffee shop turned intergalactic train, offers escape from a dystopic earth. An eclectic mix of vibrant souls seek tracks to a more hopeful future on THE L.O.S.T. TRAIN. By Tommia Wright * Paired Artist: Madison Wachter. A child's whim nearly causes the loss of his best train-friend, Folio. Captain Spyglass keeps watch as FOLIO THE BRAVE ventures into the perils of Dreamland to keep Anatole from growing up too soon. By Victoria Bastedo * Paired Artist: Pepper Allphin. Thoughts run OFF THE RAILS into dementia and alternate reality. Love stories run parallel through tests of time. Can a steam train break through space-time into dimensions of the mind? Is it true, all you need is love? By Sheri J. Kennedy & Kennedy J. Quinn * Paired Artists: Kristin Tetuán and Cameron Tower & Ellen Rowan. The theft of a Airbnb train car triggers feelings of lost stability, financial independence, and freedom. It takes a village to solve the mystery and SAVOUR the moment. By Rachel Barnard * Paired Artist: Stefanie Allison

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