Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Gilion at Rose City Reader. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading.My book beginning this week is from Fiction River, a new anthology series featuring volumes that appear every two month. Each volume has a different theme or genre, and often has a different editor. Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch are the overall series editors, approving the content.
I just received the December 13 edition titled Hex in the City featuring urban fantasy short stories. My beginning is from the third story in the issue, Speechless in Seattle by Lisa Silverthorne. This short story features a wizard whose spell goes a little wrong. Here is the beginning:
Check out the Fiction River web site to see the themes for upcoming issues.
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Sounds fascinating...not necessarily one I would have picked up, but I like the play on words.
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Hi Jo,
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a great little magazine and even though urban fantasy probably wouldn't be my favourite selection, as they are only short stories, they might be a good place to 'cut my teeth' on a new genre.
Thanks for sharing and have a great weekend,
Yvonne
Hi Jo,
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a great little magazine and although I am not a fan of Urban Fantasy, being as they are only short stories, this might be the ideal way to 'cut my teeth' on discovering and possibly enjoying a new genre.
Thanks for sharing and have a great weekend,
Yvonne
Sounds like something major is going to happen. :)
ReplyDeleteTHANKS for sharing, and enjoy your weekend.
I didn't have time to post a book beginnings so I am leaving a link to another fun post you may want to check out.
Elizabeth
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That's a great beginning. I don't read many short stories for some reason, but these sound like fun.
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