C a Rowland

Will you be our valentine? What do you want for Valentine's Day? A heart-shaped box of chocolates? Dinner out with the love of your life? A romantic river cruise? How about a murder mystery? Betrayal? Revenge? We're delighted to bring you this anthology: A Gathering of Stories: Valentine's Day. Five Valentine's Day-themed stories by five gifted storytellers. Tales that will warm your heart...and get it pounding. Get your copy today Featuring stories by: Bonnie Elizabeth C.A. Rowland Johanna Rothman M.D. Posey Tami Veldura Contemporary Short Story Anthology

Portals appear up in all kinds of places and in all shapes and sizes, raising all kind of questions. Take a mystical tavern for instance, where life choices come into play - how do you get there? How do you learn how to use a portal if it is magical and you aren't? If portals lead to standard destinations, what system governs them? Can you go through one intentionally? How do you escape one if you don't know why you're there? Five original fantasy stories explore these questions and more.The Two Trees Tavern - A life changing choice offered to a visitor in the mystical tavern.Conduct Unbecoming - A paranormal paralegal representing a ghost learns more about her powers.Portal Central - The exploration of a portal system that asks who's in charge anyway?Within the Song Lines - A thrown boomerang begins a quest for knowledge from the ancestors.A Walk on the Ivories - An out of tune piano in an old house leads to revisiting of old family wounds.

Born and raised in Savannah, Georgia, taxi driver Trisha Reede knows all the haunts and legends of the city built on the dead. After a long day of ferrying tourists, Trisha ejects a late evening out of line fare. But when he's found murdered, she questions her decision to let him out in such a seedy neighborhood. As the police investigation steers her way, she puts on the gas to solve the crime. As if she didn't already have enough baggage to deal with, newly dead Aunt Harriett shows up, helpful but cryptic, more dreamlike than real, warning of an enraged spirit searching for Trisha.

More portals, including science fiction ones that either take to other worlds, aliens, back in time or other dimensions. With some traditional portal fantasy and a couple of weird tales of passages between worlds. 10 portal stories of discovery that sometimes lead to love."And Then There Are Cats" by Jamie Ferguson"The Avalon Pub" by Barbara G.Tarn"What We're Going To Do Next" by Jennifer Rachel Baumer"The Angle Between Worlds" by Stefon Mears"Sideways" by Lana Ayers"Tethering the Sun" by C.A. Rowland"Beneath and Beyond" by Debbie Mumford"Ten Escher From Here" by Fulvio Gatti"Nite 2 Remember" by Pati Nagle"My Julie" by Ron Collins

Whether you're sucked in, you fall into it or you see it and decide to explore what's beyond, a portal is always an opening to a great adventure. From our world to others, alone or in good company, our heroes and heroines reach "somewhere" down the rabbit hole and meet strange creatures. Sometimes those creatures are the protagonists and help humans. Sometimes the other world is not as shiny as it first looks. 10 stories of fantasy portals."A Flat Above the Wynd" by Alexandra Brandt"The Earthbloods of Carapet" by Joe Cron"The Faerys Choice" by Jamie Ferguson"A Walk With Georgia" by Debbie Mumford"A Chance to Escape" by Laura Ware"Queen of the Mouse Riders" by Annie Reed"The Portal" by Barbara G.Tarn"The Traveler" by C.A. Rowland"Wolf Warlock" by Meyari McFarland"The Dancer at the Red Door" by Douglas Smith