Fading Shards
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In Fading Shards, the thrilling multi-genre anthology from Swaraj Nath, nothing is as it appears:
A boy runs into poachers and then the supernatural on a National Park tour...a teenager housesitting for his neighbors comes face to face with himself...and when Crispian and his party goes looking for a magical sword, they realize how a prophecy can have deadly loopholes.
These are only some of the happenings you will come across in this collection of short stories-which shall take you to a world very different from your own.
Whatever you shall witness
Whatever you may believe,
Pass it by, never though-
Let not the shards...fade away.
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