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What if time travel is like alcoholism? Shouldn't mermaids have blubber to stay warm in the ocean?
These short stories of fantasy and science fiction explore the weird, the bizarre, and the concretization of untenable fantasies.
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Abby Goldsmith is the author of an epic dark sci-fi fantasy series published by Podium and narrated by George Newbern. The Torth series begins with Majority, available on Kindle, Audible, and carried by Ingram.
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