Excerpt from "Call Me Claw"
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The Athena's Daughters 2 Kickstarter project is full of awesome art and fiction. Just this week, backers unlocked my short story (mine!) "Call Me Claw" wherein a terrible mage (and worse swordsman) accepts a job fighting armed bandits. It seems like a great deal until the dragon shows up.
I'm putting up an excerpt from "Call Me Claw" here. If you like it, you might want to head over to Kickstarter and think about backing the project. Srsly, there's such nifty swag.
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