Joy V. Smith has been writing stories since she was a kid and made her own little books. Her stories and articles have been published in print magazines, webzines, and anthologies; and her SF has been published in two audiobooks, including Sugar Time. Her books include Strike Three, Sugar Time, Taboo Tech, Detour Trail, Building a Cool House for Hot Times without Scorching the Pocketbook, and a collection of her published short stories: The Doorway and Other Stories. Her ebooks include Hidebound, Velvet of Swords, Cold New Planet, Pretty Pink Planet, Hot Yellow Planet, and Remodeling: Buying and Updating a Foreclosure. She lives in Florida with Samwise Gamgee, a Chihuahua cross, and Pemberley, a tortoiseshell cat.
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 4,970.
Language:
English.
Published: September 29, 2023
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
(5.00 from 1 review)
Crystal Quest (Seedlings sequel) includes another mad mage, plus hostile plants (those vines are nasty) and a search for missing crystals. Juul and her companions, including Pink Fingers and desert claws, head into danger--this time seeking it out.
Cathay saved Rand's life after he'd been chained in the water and cut to attract the sharks by fellow gangsters. However, Cathay and her dolphin companions freed him. Cathay and her family are not fantasy mermaids; and only the females in her family are mermaids. Cathay and her siblings are the result of her mother rescuing a seaman.
Velvet of Swords (Swords is the name of her family keep) is a science fiction adventure set in the far future on a planet colonized by Terrans. Well, there were complications because of the first settlers (humanoid), who amused themselves with genetic engineering, among other things.
Westward bound on the Oregon Trail, Lorena Emerson is alone after her uncle is killed by a thief trying to steal his money belt. Ignoring the wagon master's advice to go home, she rounds up others needing help, and they join a later wagon train and are soon slogging through dust and mud and steep mountain passes. It's a long way to Oregon, and because another woman needs her help, Lorrie again goe
Lori, an agent of SOESFOL (Search Out and Establish Sentient Forms of Life) visits Prism, a popular tourist destination, to track down planet pirates and rescue aliens, if she can find and talk to them.
How one woman coped with selling a house--at last, looking for a new house, buying a new house that was a foreclosure and needed lots of work, and then remodeling it since it didn't even have a kitchen sink!