SHORT FICTION

SHORT FICTION

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All She Can Be

When someone moves the Canada/US border along the flooding Red River, the American Geological Survey assigns freshman agent Vallon Drake to find the culprit and repair the damage. If she doesn’t it could destroy the peace between the two nations.

But solving a crime in the shadow world of the AGS is never straightforward, especially when assigning blame can have serious career repercussions.

Karen L. Abrahamson once again transports us to the change-ridden world of the AGS, but this time she takes us back in time to Vallon Drake’s first dirty little case.

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Between the Lines

Alchemist, mastermind, loner, albino. When diminutive Landon Snow receives a call for help from his long lost love, he abandons his secret Seattle laboratory for Las Vegas to find an abducted teenager. Can his meager Gifted powers reclaim his old flame’s daughter? If he fails, will he lose the affection of the only woman he ever loved?

Karen L Abrahamson takes us on a tour of another side of Landon Snow’s life. Being a five foot two albino is never easy.

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A Sprinkle of Murder

Vallon Drake might just have met her match this time when she discovers a dead body on the grounds of the AGS Academy. When no one calls the police to investigate, it looks like the powers-that-be are going to sweep the whole thing under the carpet. Enter one-person-investigative-team Vallon. But finding the truth in a school filled with secrets can be a dangerous game—especially when you can’t tell friends from enemies.

Karen L. Abrahamson adds a new short story to the mythology of the early years of Vallon Drake, heroine of the ASG series. Set on the grounds of the secretive American Geological Academy, A Sprinkle of Murder introduces readers to the world of the powerful Gifted who can rewrite the landscape with their maps. A fascinating little mystery readers will enjoy for the complex characters and layers of story.

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Deep Water, Sharp Teeth

When bandits take fifteen-year-old Ravi Sanghera captive in their stilted town, he knows he has to get free and find his father before something bad happens. But then the sharp toothed, tattooed man arrives and the ‘something bad’ becomes something far worse than he could ever imagine….

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Neutrality – Karen  L. Abrahamson

When Casey Turner’s Family Court case goes south due to the murder of a husband, it leaves a woman in custody and a child’s safety in the balance. What’s a neutral Family Court Counselor to do?

Karen L. Abrahamson draws on years working in Family Court to create this mystery of divorce and the crime it can evoke.  This story was previously published in the Anthology Fiction River: Crime.
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Moonstruck – Karen L. Abrahamson
Danny Black’s world ended with the death of his parents, but no one understands his need to escape everyone and everything around him—no matter how well-meaning. Then he meets the moon horse and everything’s solved.
He thinks.
Karen L. Abrahamson returns to her lyrical style for this tale of magic and childhood longing. 
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A Christmas Break – Karen L. McKee
Widowed and struggling to keep alive the family horse breeding ranch, Kate Shasta finds herself offered a chance to earn money by using two of her horses to drive Santa Clause in the town’s Christmas parade. She accepts, even though none of her horses are truly broke to harness. She can train the horses—she hopes. Enter Ted Cross, once a teenaged infatuation, now the handsome owner of the town’s main tack store and apparently attracted to her. But all of Ted’s attempts to help Kate might expose not only the desperate lie she told about the horses, but also the vulnerability of Kate’s lonely heart. Available at Amazon, Smashwords, Kobo and Barnes and Noble
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Raising Grace – Karen L. McKee
Dude wrangler Grace Tyson knows better than to trust men. Just as she knows that the arrival of Mikhail Sturmgeist, with his rich man accent and aristocratic ways, signals trouble for her upcoming trail ride. Then a runaway horse forces Mikhail to reveal his true identity as a’ game player’ and his real—and dangerous—purpose for coming to the ranch. Now Grace must trust him in order to track a dangerous man in the wilderness and solve a case where only the truth can save them. Available on AmazonSmashwordsKobo and Barnes and Noble.
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The Rescue – Karen L. McKee
Amanda Ripper escaped a controlling husband who convinced her that she was weak and an invalid. To convince herself that it wasn’t true, she fills her life with friends and hiking and refuses to become involved with anyone again. Then she falls and breaks her leg, re-igniting the specter of her old life. Can a handsome man from search and rescue to give Amanda a chance at life again? Available on Amazon, Smashwords and Kobo.
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Hero – Karen L. McKee
As a trainer on the horse show circuit Robbie Burns has had to deal with flighty horses and horse show moms. Now  saddled with a brainless horse, the uber horse show mom from hell, mom’s sexy date, a newbie rider and a pink umbrella and Robbie faces a situation where there’s no way anyone comes out a hero. Or is there?   Available on Amazon and through Smashwords and Kobo.
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The Wedgie – Karen L. McKee
Since her divorce, Danica Wilson fills her days fighting to regain her self-confidence and swimming her way to fitness. The local pool becomes her respite from a world that doesn’t even notice her existence. But when an angry swimmer calls her ‘useless’, she finds herself right back where she began. How does a ‘useless’ woman deal with a bully of a man? Maybe she gives him a wedgie. Available on Amazon and through Smashwords and Kobo.
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Solstice Knight – Karen L. McKee
Two years ago Count Islee killed Rosalee’s family. Now known as Rosalee-of-the-woods, she lives her life in fearful hiding, dreaming of revenge. When a dark horse breaks the solstice night silence, can her enemies be far behind? Rosalee must choose between safety, revenge, or the chance for an old love. Available on Amazon and at Smashwords and Kobo other fine e-tailers.
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A Christmas Blizzard Kiss – Karen L. McKee
Two years ago Rebecca Murray lost her husband and her laughter. She began living life by going through the motions. On a blizzard night, her sixteen-year-old son goes missing from the family ranch. Rebecca must brave the snow storm in order to find him. But the night and the wilderness bring dangers. Can a chance meeting with a winter cowboy bring an early thaw to reignite Rebecca’s joy in life? Available on Amazon and at Smashwords, Kobo and other fine e-tailers.
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Deep Water, Sharp Teeth – Karen L. Abrahamson
In this prequel to the TERRA Trilogy,  when bandits take fifteen-year-old Ravi Sanghera captive in their stilted town, he knows he has to get free and find his father before something bad happens. But then the sharp toothed, tattooed man arrives and the ‘something bad’ becomes something far worse than he could ever imagine….
Available on Amazon and at Smashwords and other fine e-tailers.
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For the Love… – Karen L. McKee
When her world comes apart, Shandy Phillips must sell her prize dressage horse and lose the life she loves. When a buyer arrives to try her horse it arouses the specter of a teenaged crush and an old animosity towards Kurt Mackenzie, the one man who violated everything Shandy values. Available on Amazon and at Smashwords, Kobo and other fine e-tailers.
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That was Then… – Karen L. McKee
Marion Murphy could meet the qualifications to become a police officer, but when the man who will train her also once broke her heart, will Marion have the qualifications to know what she wants? Available on Amazon and at Smashwords, Kobo and other fine e-tailers.
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Juggling Change – Karen L. McKee
For Janice Marley losing her house, her neighbors and her husband was bad enough, but now her daughter no longer needs her and her job looks like it may go up in smoke. Can a woman torn loose from her roots find a place to call her own and the strength to welcome love again? Available on Amazon and at Smashwords, Kobo and other fine e-tailers.
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Burmese Shadows – Karen L. Abrahamson
When a modern young Burmese woman falls in love, the ancient spirit of Lady Three Times Beautiful must guard her from a dishonorable man. But protecting the heart and protecting a woman are two very different things. In a changing world can The Lady and the old powers do both?
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A Pearl Away- Karen L. McKee
Suspicion falls perilously close to home, when someone steals Rachel Wilkes’ Great Grandmother’s heirloom ring right before the museum show that will celebrate the grand lady’s contributions to the town. In this story of what it means to be family, will solving the crime bring peace to the Wilkes household, or will it further drive a wedge between Rachel and her sons? Available on Amazon and at Smashwords and other fine e-tailers.
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Revelation – Karen L. Abrahamson
The final installment of the Ice Dragon saga. Banished from her village in the middle of winter, Jazella must protect her family and herself while trying to reach (or reunite with) the mysterious young man who haunts her dreams. To do so, she must survive the Dead-infested forest and discover the secret of the strange metal dragon that beleaguers her village.
Available for Kindle and on Smashwords and at other fine etailers.
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A Child Among Us – Karen L. Abrahamson
Ambea, Sister-head of the Sisters of Flame, yearns to provide a viable clutch of eggs that will produce a great leader. If she fails, duty calls for her to step down. When her latest clutch begins to flicker and die, she must decide whether to go to her fate or use her herb magic to make her dream real. Can forbidden magic give her all she wants or must everyone she knows suffer the consequences?
Available on Smashwords and Amazon.
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The Lips of the Waves, The Tips of Their Wings – Karen L. Abrahamson
When Vessra of the Village of One Hundred rejects the metamorphosis his brood mate chooses, he embarks on an adventure to find a different way to live – one that won’t lead to his brood-mate’s death. But different and better are not necessarily the same. Can Vessra confront his race’s deadly secret and transform himself?
Available on Smashwords and Amazon.
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Sirens — Karen L. Abrahamson
Dana and her two male survey ship partners can handle the crash landing on a distant planet because they are together: one to survey the new planet’s dangers, one to repair the ship, and one to act as peacemaker. Until the peacemaker unwittingly falls under the spell of the sirens. Now Dana must deal with her lone life mate’s anger, as her understanding of the sirens grows. Can two that were three ever find the balance to escape?
Available on Smashwords and Amazon.
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When to Fly the Black Mare and When to Fear Coyote – Karen L. Abrahamson
When Molly’s husband brings a dangerous black mare to their lonely homestead, it only fuels her feelings of impending doom and her nightmares of horse hooves galloping. Then her husband uses the half-mad horse to clear the boulders legends say were left behind by an ancient Native American trickster.
That’s when the bad things start to happen.
Available on Smashwords and Amazon.
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Ruin: Book Three of the Ice Dragon Saga – Karen L. Abrahamson
Jazella of Gruenheld risked everything to steal back her village’s precious metal from the dragon’s lair. Instead of riches, she brought back a deadly sickness. Now, in a race against time, Jazella must seek help from creatures she dreads in order to save the man she loves. But will they bring rescue, or ruin?
Available on Smashwords and Amazon.
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The Dead: Book 2 in the Ice Dragon Saga- Karen L. Abrahamson
Jazella of Gruenheld ventured out into the snow covered forest in search of dragon treasure. Now, inside the dragon, the youth who has haunted her dreams holds her captive. Escape means risking her life in a dangerous return to Gruenheld, for the freezing forests holds worse things than dragons, wolves and wild men. Far worse.
Available on Smashwords and Amazon
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After the Fall – Karen L. Abrahamson
Years ago, as a young man, Daedalus lost Icarus, his son to the God Apollo. Now the child of his old age threatens to take wing. What will a father do to keep his son safe? Available on Smashwords and Amazon
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Book of Days – Karen L. Abrahamson
Years ago Eanid Dupuis’ husband stranded her in Paris while conducting research from the transitive dimensions. The discovery of the book that will send her home sets Eanid on a collision course with an African refugee, a book vendor, and the true meaning of freedom. Available on Smashwords and Amazon.
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Brambles and Black Horses – Karen L. Abrahamson
Gayle lost everything in the long ago accident that killed her family’s champion race horse and left her a ruined wreck of flesh and broken bones. Now, as bulldozers destroy the old farm where her love of racing was born, the appearance of a strange barefoot boy threatens to bring ruin upon her again.
Available on Smashwords and for Kindle.
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Ice Dragon – Karen L. Abrahamson
Only the brave and the lucky can survive the walking dead, the frozen winter and the perilous ice dragon. When seventeen-year-old Jazella of Gruenheld faces a forced marriage to the ancient Venerable Heed, she makes the decision to risk everything in hopes of obtaining the treasure that will buy her freedom. Faced with the dead and the dragon, will her luck hold?
Available on Smashwords and Amazon.
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Happy Ever After at the End of Days – Karen L. Abrahamson
All Agatha Cluney (That’s Clun-eh, as in the French) wants to do is to make people happy, but when you’re a psychic at the end of the world, that’s particularly difficult to do….
Available on Smashwords and Amazon.
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Blood Knowledge of Swans – Karen L. Abrahamson
A small child, a string of pearls and a colony of swans converge in this short story of family life gone wrong. In Bella’s world of beautiful swans, her mother is the most beautiful creature of all. But swans abandon Bella every year and now her mother may abandon her, too. In a world filled with magic, what’s a child to do?
Available on Smashwords and Amazon.
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Mirrors and Cloth – Karen L. McKee
Lost in Rajasthan, the home of camels, hevalis,  ornate men’s turbans and women draped in mirror-embossed saris, freelance journalist, Lena, must deal with strange customs and two men who profess to love her. Choosing the right path can be as convoluted as the twists on a Rajasthani turban.
Available on Smashwords and Amazon.
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****************************************************************************Blood and Magick – A murdered caravan merchant, a threatened city, and a forbidden magick that could start a war. As Marshal of the City of Dreams, Marcellus deim Lazar must solve the murder of a half-breed deim merchant discovered in a place no deim should be. The death could ignite a fire that will ravage the City he loves, for humans, powerful Cartos wizards, and the deim — the Cartos’s half-breed children — coexist in the City in an uneasy peace. Long have the Cartos ruled, but now whispers fill darkened alleys with rumors that the deim may take back the long-denied power that their half-Cartos bloodline gives them. To gather the evidence he needs, Marcellus must confront a magick that could save the woman he loves, or destroy everything he has given his life to preserve. Available on Smashwords and Kindle.
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Bees in the Morning – Samuel Benson’s life changed the day he found his best bee hive destroyed. When the creatures who have taken over attack him, he thinks he might be losing his mind. After all, they look suspiciously like fairies.
Available on Smashwords and Kindle.
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Pretense for Murder –A dead girl, an empty phone booth where one shouldn’t be and a school full of suspects with too many unusual powers.

When student, Vallon Drake discovers the dead body of a girl and a British phone booth standing outside the American Geological Survey Preparatory Academy, she knows someone with special power committed the murder. Heck, her school exists to teach students with the talent to rewrite the landscape as future special agents. But while Vallon wants to solve the crime, everyone else wants to cover it up. Trust Vallon to break the rules to take the investigation on—even when the cost of doing so might be her life. Available on Smashwords and Kindle.

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The African Queen
Karen L. Abrahamson
A crime. A teenage store clerk who channels Humphrey Bogart. The girl of his dreams and a wild ride across a steamy flooded city. Can our hero control his wayward mouth so love can bloom like on the African Queen? Available on Smashwords and Kindle. *************************************************************************** ***************************************************************************
Ruffles: Almost a Love Story
Karen L. Abrahamson
When Mercy Phillips’ art class challenges her to convey an emotion through art, modeling clay becomes a medium for an almost-recluse to explore aspects of love. But working with memories and working in clay releases something that might be a monster or might be her salvation.
Available on Smashwords and Kindle
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Through Dark Woods:
A Short Story Collection
Karen L. Abrahamson
This five pack of short stories explores what happens when humans interact with the natural world. From Camelot, to the swamps of India, to the local lake we camped beside as a child, and our own suburban neighbourhoods, nature’s moods are ever changing and NEVER, EVER to be trusted.
Available at Smashwords and Kindle.
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The Wife’s Tail
Karen L. Abrahamson
For Daisy, impetuous storm-love brought her up from the deeps and into the arms of a fisherman. Happily ever after?
When has loving a man and forgetting who you are ever been as easy as expected?
Available for dowload on Smashwords and Kindle.
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Tiger Heart Wrapp’d In a Woman’s Hide
Karen Abrahamson
In the Sundarban Swamps of southern India, when man-eating tigers threaten the teak loggers, Serinder, the shaman, protects them through his talisman gift from the goddess Bonobibi. But in the face of man’s never-ending greed, it takes more than a talisman to placate the gods.
Available for Download on Smashwords and Kindle
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The Lady of Ashuelot
Karen Abrahamson
In Modern New Hampshire, Guinevere, now a blacksmith, and the Lady of the Lake, guard King Arthur’s life giving, magic sword. When Lancelot arrives and demands King Arthur’s weapon, Guinevere must decide how to spend the magic of the sword.
Available for download at Smashword and Kindle
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There is Always a Burning
Karen Abrahamson
In the 1400’s the Emporer of China burned the Chinese exploration fleet. In this alternate history, Fleet Admiral Xeng uses the help of a captured djinn to save the fleet and discover American. But deals with a djinn imitate deals with the devil and flames burn in flesh as well as a ship’s hull.
Available for download at Smashword and Kindle
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In a Fold of Green Leaf Shadows
Karen Abrahamson
During a family camping trip to mysterious, mist-filled mountains, ten-year-old Carla finds herself saddled with Daniel, a newly adopted brother. Consumed by the ‘injustice’ of Daniel’s presence in her family, she attempts to use the magic of the mountains to rid herself of her problem. But should a child ever trust the ancient magic of the wild?
Available for Download on Smashwords and Kindle
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Coyotes ,Cats and Other Creatures
Karen Abrahamson
When Richard’s psychiatrist recommends that he tie troubling memories in the woods around his home, it gives Richard much needed relief –until coyote comes calling….
This story first published in Strange Horizons, September 2002.
Available for download on Smashword and Kindle.
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Poof
Karen Abrahamson
When Coffee Murphy, the best damn whore in Madam LaFarge’s Charm School and Whore House, discovers her best customer dead, she must solve the murder to save herself. But vigilantes and Coffee’s past means solving a murder comes at a price.
Available for download at Smashwords and Kindle
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The Big Time Performance of Big Time Big P – Karen Abrahamson
This weird little tale marries mystery, a prison romance, and a bite of humor into the sorry tale of Big Pete Galore, sent up to Sing Sing for a mob-sanctioned hit. But when Big P meets Prison Warden J.P. Magut, it seems what matters isn’t that Big P’s a made man of the New York mob, but more just what Big P’s made of.
Available for download on Smashwords and Kindle.
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Bones
Karen Abrahamson
In Canada’s north, Linus takes two old friends to an ancient medicine place where buried mammoth-bones lay under an old black spruce. If they can excavate the bones and sell them, riches will finally flow Linus’ way. But Linus’ people’s roots run as deep as the old black spruce’s and the mammoth bones go even deeper. Digging the bones up might release something other than the bones’ fluting songs.
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