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An Elder Dragon has returned to Kyreland-the first to be seen in thousands of years-and Bouragner Felpz is called in to mediate; a young man falls victim to not one, but three grotesque fates; upon being cast out of Heaven, Lucifer makes a surprising new friend; and in Las Vegas, Jill Hamilton is on a mission to conduct her very own interview with a famous vampire rock star-but will she live to tell about it? A new take on Little Red Riding Hood suggests the wolf is not the true monster; and in the final story, Professor Odd must convince two warring species to work together-before they are destroyed by a cataclysmic event. These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Aphelion 2014, the third issue of Goldeen Ogawa's semi-annual anthology of fantasy and science fiction. Aphelion 2014 includes: "Griffin's Blood" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II, #4) "The Three Fates of Talias Minn" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II, #5) "The Trickster and the Devil" (Standalone) "Sex, Blood and Rock 'n' Roll" (Driving Arcana #4) "How Riding Got Her Red Hood" (Standalone) "The Dragons of Geda" (Professor Odd # 5)

In the far future, a team of genetically modified dogs struggle to reach a mysterious objective, but Professor Odd suspects a sinister goal behind their mission. A wolf learns the value of good luck, while the magician Bouragner Felpz attempts to solve a violent murder and recover a missing necklace-which has somehow wound up on the bottom of the sea. And in modern-day Kansas, Jill and company find themselves helping an eccentric priest when the demon terrorizing a small town proves difficult to exorcise. These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Aphelion 2015, the fifth issue of Goldeen Ogawa's semi-annual anthology of fantasy and science fiction. Aphelion 2015 includes: "The Dogs of Canary Island" (Professor Odd #7) "The Wolf and the Rabbit" (Standalone) "The Moonfoot Problem" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II, #8) "The Case of Countess Baronia" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II, #9) "Missionary Man" (Driving Arcana #6)

What do you do when the supernatural world crashes, horribly and violently, into yours? Well, if you're Jill Hamilton, you hire yourself a couple of hard-bitten, demon-hunting, monster-killing bodyguards, get in your dead boyfriend's giant truck, and you go out and study it. So begins the saga of Driving Arcana, the tale of three women on a mission to catch unicorns, talk to vampires, and understand the impossible-and maybe kill some monsters on the way-for science, justice, and the fight against evil. Driving Arcana: Rotation One introduces us to former grad student Jill Hamilton and her bodyguards-the stoic, sword-wielding, motorcycle-riding Clara Nordstern and the tough-as-nails, gun-toting Selene Shields-as they encounter a bloody attack of rabid chimeras, a herd of unicorns bent on revenge, and a sinister invasion from beyond the borders of our world. The first rotation of Driving Arcana, Wheel One, it includes: 1. The Sword and the Shield 2. Highway Unicorns 3. Shadows in the Valley of Death

A young woman's fiancé disappears, and a man made of stone takes his place; Bouragner Felpz receives a distress call from what appears to be a disembodied hand. In Utah, a boy's sudden disappearance leads Jill Hamilton to investigate several cases of unexplainable phenomena; two children discover a magical portal and go exploring across the universe; and in the season finale of Professor Odd, Elo and Alister find themselves trapped in the most dangerous universe yet: the Professor's own homeworld! These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Perihelion 2015, the fourth issue of Goldeen Ogawa's semi-annual anthology of fantasy and science fiction. Perihelion 2015 includes: "The Stone Man" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II, #6) "The Withered Hand" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II, #7) "God, or Aliens" (Driving Arcana #5) "Amar and Desta's Big Day Out" (Standalone) "The Monster's Daughter" (Professor Odd #6)

A train in outer space is hijacked. Luckily, Professor Odd is on board. Unluckily, the hijackers know her of old and the situation quickly becomes dire. Jill, Selene and Clara come to the aid of a grieving woman haunted by ghosts, and Bouragner Felpz manages to coax Corianne out of retirement one last time in order to find a lost university student and solve a mystery that has lain dormant for forty years.These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Mesohelion 2018, the tenth and final issue of Goldeen Ogawa's semiannual anthology of fantasy and science fiction.Mesohelion 2018 includes: "Cerberus Retired" Parts 1 and 2 (Professor Odd #12)"Half Lives" (Driving Arcana #12)"The Peculiar Case of Professor Odd" (Bouragner Felpz, Volume III #3

Jill Hamilton would call herself an ordinary person. Certainly in comparison to the sharpshooting, monster-savvy Selene Shields and the six-and-a-half-foot tall, sword-wielding Clara Nordstern. But Selene and Clara would say that ordinary people, on discovering that the heavy-metal rock star performing in Las Vegas is a vampire, would not want to get an impression of his teeth. Which is exactly what Jill Hamilton wants to do. Not content to simply fight the supernatural forces of evil, Jill Hamilton is also set on understanding them-and if that means interviewing a vampire, hunting angels, or exorcising demons, then so be it! Driving Arcana: Rotation Two follows the saga of two women in a big red truck-and one on an overpowered motorcycle-as they investigate a murder in the sewers of Las Vegas, the mysterious disappearance of a Utah boy, and help a charming, lapsed minister exorcise a particularly determined demon. It includes the fourth, fifth and six episodes in Driving Arcana, Wheel One: 4. Sex, Blood and Rock 'N' Roll 5. God, or Aliens 6. Missionary Man

In a universe much like our own, Professor Alister Bane lives a quiet life as an archeologist at Oxford University. But when a nearby excavation triggers a psychotic episode in one of his colleagues, Professor Bane finds himself tumbling down a rabbit hole of strange phenomena and frightening possibilities. Having to contend with a slew of disappearing interns and his own terrifying hallucinations, Alister Bane finds his mind-and his whole world-unraveling even as he searches for a solution. It all comes down to half-forgotten memories, a madman's allusion to the thing with "terrible arms" and a nightmare of being trapped in a cold, dark place. But when he finds the answer, it is something beyond even his wildest dreams. "The Elder Machine" is the fourth installment in Goldeen Ogawa's sci-fi novella series chronicling the adventures of Professor Odd-and in this case, Professor Bane as well.

What do you do when your drastic measures to save your own life result in you becoming a strange, half-undead creature that even other monsters are afraid of? If you're Jill Hamilton, you start a company dedicated to the study of those monsters-and anything else that looks remotely magical.What do you do when you lose your best friend when she falls off a bridge in Purgatory? If you're Clara Nordstern, you try to find the next thing that needs doing. Even if it means confronting your worst fears and your deepest guilt.What do you do when you get sucked into Hell by the demon Lilith? If you're Selene Shields, you start walking. One foot in front of the other. Even if it means going right through the center of Hell.The world of Driving Arcana, always subverted by magic, is becoming openly mythic, and Jill, Clara, and Selene must navigate a landscape increasingly compromised by powers beyond anyone's expectation-but not, Jill would point out, beyond potential understanding.This is Wheel 3 of Driving Arcana, Hope in the Forest of Despair. It follows Wheel 2, Paving the Road to Hell, and is comprised of Lightning Does Strike Twice, Moonrise Over Hades, The Hour I First Believed, Hope in the Forest of Despair, Cloth of Man, Blood and Fury, Fear Not, A Cold Day in Hell, and The Great Gate. It also contains a related short story "The Lady in the Gray Suit" which provides a glimpse of the magical mayhem occurring on the opposite side of the globe.

What do you do when the supernatural world crashes-suddenly, violently, devastatingly-into yours? If you are Jill Hamilton, you drop out of UC Santa Cruz, use your inherited savings to hire a couple monster hunters as bodyguards, get in your dead boyfriend's truck, and you go out and study it. Of course. Even if your bodyguards tell you some things are better left un-studied. Even if unicorns are real and bloodthirsty. Even if summoning old, forgotten gods has detrimental effects on the state of reality. Because beyond killing monsters and helping people, Jill Hamilton wants to understand why the world she thought she knew is actually so much deeper, darker, and downright magical than it has any right to be.Welcome to the world of Driving Arcana, where even the painfully boring and mundane aspects of everyday life are underlaid by a subtle current of inexplicable magic, and three women are on a mission to find out how it all works. Even if two of them would really rather not.Wheel 2 of Driving Arcana, Paving the Road to Hell follows Wheel 1, By Moon and Star. It collects all the stories from Rotations Four, Five and Six, and adds "The Five Bodies of Tamerlain Pierce" at the end, which serves as a link between this Wheel and the next.

Lucena Clarian Ashmoor has never hatched a feathered serpent from an egg. She has never befriended a sombulus-a monster that looks like a giant spider, eats darkness, and likes reading books. She has never ridden a magic horse. She has spent all her life with relatives who would prefer she were elsewhere, and so sent her away to the nastiest school imaginable. There she has been bullied, and told so many times that she was dumb and fat and useless that she almost came to believe it. She has never been popular, and never done anything remotely heroic.All this changes the night a vampire attacks her school and Lucena is tumbled into a world wider, darker, more magical and more mysterious than any she could have imagined. Here she will find the forgotten egg, meet the shade-eating spider, ride the black mare with coal-fire eyes, fight vampires, dance with fairies, and find-in time-that she might be a hero after all.