Alric is a Rune Priest with great magical powers at his command, owing his power and position to his gods Heimdal and Tyr. He is proud of his service, following the commands of his gods even when they do not seem godly, believing it must be he who is lacking, or not capable of understanding. Then Alric is sent on a dangerous mission by his gods and questions his loyalty.

Josh Thompson is an ordinary guy trying to make his way in the world, working hard at his job and getting by until agents from the Bureau of Identity Theft, the BIT, arrive and complicate his life. Someone has stolen his identity, and in Josh's world, this means much more than the simple theft of his personal information. In Josh's world, it is nothing less than life-changing.

Do you ever feel like you're doing the same things over and over, repeating the drudgery of daily life? Washing the clothes, washing the dishes, mowing the lawn, shopping for groceries, going to work, going to school, and on and on. Does it seem repetitive? Tiring? Does it seem productive? What if doing these things was holding the world you knew together? Would you, could you, dare you, stop doing them? Taylor and Jenny Newland find out.

Imagine a world where IQ means nothing. Where another measure, something called PQ, Potential Quotient, has replaced it, and where a person's worth is determined by this measure instead. For Low Pots like Tricia Clark, a brilliant girl with a high IQ but low PQ, it means being stuck in a prison she can never break free of, or does it?

What if you could control other people's memories? Make them do good things instead of bad, and make them remember it was what they intended to do all along? Sounds like fantasy, doesn't it? For Remic and Starlight, it's their reality. But they aren't the only ones who can manipulate memories. There are others, and these others want something far more sinister.

Have you ever found a lucky penny? Pete Samson is the recipient of one that is far more than it appears. Like a miracle, the penny changes Pete's miserable, bad-luck life, but is it for the better?

Paul Allan Comstock

Anthology #2

6 STORIES!

Six science fiction stories of memories and magic. Stories of human duplicates stealing identities, and lives, people controlling memories, magical pennies, drudgery turned into ritual, and gods with magical power.

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