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    Quarantine Reads: Escape to Adventure
    Quarantine Reads: Escape to Adventure
    Quarantine Reads: Escape to Adventure
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    Quarantine Reads: Escape to Adventure

    By Karen J. Carlisle

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    When times are dark, fiction can whisk us away to other worlds to find new friends and have fantastical adventures. This collection of short fantasy, steampunk and fairytale fiction was created to entertain those in isolation or quarantine, or anyone needing to escape the worries of the world for a while.
    Stay safe.
    Quarantine Reads contains seven short stories of a lighter note, to inspire and transport you beyond four walls.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKaren J. Carlisle
    Release dateApr 6, 2020
    ISBN9780463186091
    Quarantine Reads: Escape to Adventure
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    Karen J. Carlisle

    Karen J Carlisle is a writer and illustrator of speculative fiction - steampunk, Victorian mystery and fantasy. She graduated in 1986, from Queensland Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Optometry and lives in Adelaide with her family and the ghost of her ancient Devon Rex cat. Karen first fell in love with science fiction when she saw Doctor Who as a four-year old (she can’t remember if she hid behind the couch). This was reinforced when, at the age of twelve, she saw her first Star Destroyer. She started various other long-term affairs with fantasy fiction, (tabletop) role-playing, gardening, historical re-creation and steampunk – in that order. Her first book, Doctor Jack and Other Tales, was published in 2015. She has had articles published in Australian Realms Roleplaying Magazine and Cockatrice (Arts and Sciences magazine). Her short story, An Eye for Detail, was short-listed by the Australian Literature Review in their 2013 Murder/Mystery Short Story Competition. Karen's short story, Hunted, is featured in the Trail of Tales exhibition in the Adelaide Fringe, 2016. She currently writes full-time and can often be found plotting fantastical, piratical or airship adventures. Karen has always loved chocolate - dark preferred - and rarely refuses a cup of tea. She is not keen on the South Australian summers. 

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      Quarantine Reads - Karen J. Carlisle

      QUARANTINE READS:

      ESCAPE TO ADVENTURE

      A collection of speculative fiction short stories

      by Karen J Carlisle

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2020 Karen J Carlisle

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes.

      All rights reserved.

      This ebook is for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold, reproduced or redistributed or given away to others for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favourite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the work of this author.

      All characters and events in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real places or events or real persons, living or dead, is purely incidental.

      Cover design: Copyright Karen J Carlisle 2020

      Thank you for purchasing this e-book.

      Introduction

      When times are dark, fiction can whisk us away to other worlds to find new friends and have fantastical adventures. This collection of short fantasy, steampunk and fairytale fiction was created to entertain those in isolation or quarantine, or anyone needing to escape the worries of the world for a while. Stay safe.

      CONTENTS

      Flash Fiction: Under Two Minutes

      Snow Peas – fantasy

      Aether Egg – steampunk, based on The Adventures of Viola Stewart

      Short Shorts: Under Five Minutes

      Hunted - historical

      Longer Shorts: Under Ten Minutes

      Writer and the Story – fairytale fantasy

      Bonus Shorts: Longer Reads

      The Wager – historical

      Rumpelstichen – fairytale fantasy

      Here be Dragons – fantasy, based on upcoming Otherworld series.

      Author’s Notes

      About the Author

      Other Titles by Karen J Carlisle

      Flash fiction: UNDER TWO MINUTES

      Snow Peas

      Mum always tells us to eat our greens. Says they’re good for us. She grows them in the front yard. This year she went pea mad, planting every type of pea she knew.

      I hate peas. I swallow them whole, like pills.

      So Mum planted snow peas. She was hoping I’d like them. I did, but not as mum had hoped…

      Summer was hot. The snow peas were dying. Mum was sad. I wanted to help. I wanted to chase the heat away. I couldn’t, so I ate the snow peas.

      They were cold. As I opened my mouth, a gust of cold air rushed out. It filled the room. Small icicles grew on everything it touched. Mum almost fell off her chair in surprise.

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