A Human Season: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Tales of Empowered Women

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About A Human Season: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Tales of Empowered Women

A Human Season is a series of tales of women from the farthest reaches of the Universe, to Angels in the depths of Lake Michigan. Falling Dead in Love, Imagine what a woman would be like as the incarnation of death? Former Homicide Detective Santos Harboring comes face to face with her. He has lived death and lost the only people he loved, and now he finds strange comfort in the arms of Mair, who is nothing like the death of the past, but something entirely human. Blue Waves - Disabled, and afraid, Jen Boy Johnson sees the wonderful and terrible Angels of his childhood on every special occasion from the shores of his little Island in Lake Michigan. They come to him, in an awful surge of blue waves, to change him from the inside and outside. Hooker - Imagine having to sell yourself every day on the Vegas Strip of the future. Kiley Pane, who can give john's a replay of their darkest secret memories through the flesh headdress flowing from the back of her head, knows how to survive. The ruling body, the corporate health alliance will try to keep her from using the regeneration she has, to save herself from corporate enslavement. Far Passage - In the world of mega-storms humanity has built 2KM high spires to disperse the energy of hurricanes. Calgary with daughter Kera must travel to these enormous edifices to track down her husband who has abandoned them, with no rights or support. She must live through a hurricane and Tsunami, and fight the indifference of the services that run the Spires, and the manipulations of a Narcissistic husband with a sick child. But this is what strong women do, they fight for justice, and sometimes you find a way, to provide for your children, alone. A Human Season - An androgynous population of Biodrone, like humans, but a human construct must watch as humanity destroys itself. Seen through the eyes of a centuries-old Androgine Drone, who wants nothing more than a life resembling human families, faces an endless backward track of memories from previous lives of those that have contributed to the DNA line that she comes from. And the forward ravages of endless war and conquest. The resulting awareness helps her save humanity when those around her deem it lost forever. Desert Snow - The magic in the south of west, in the Sonoran Desert, is held by ancient indigenous people. They are often elusive and startling in their abilities. Meet the shaman of the desert, who not only saves Joey Villa from the shallow grave the mob put him in, but teaches him something about being a man of knowledge, in a world surrounded by amazing feats of magic, right in close to Vegas desert. Gremlins - Gracie loves pixies and faeries. She is a bit too unrealistic and an over-the-top conversationalist. But when the Sprite sticks its little head out of the foliage in the Nursery where Grace works, she is ready. Or so she thinks. She didn't realize that fairies take on the manner and personality of the place where they live when she put the pixie in the jar in the toilet tank. The Gremlins are thought to help fairies, well Gracie finds out just how protective they are when the world starts to disappear. Gracie could be next.

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