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  • Blue-Skinned Mystics
    Anitha Krishnan
    Magic saved his village. Now, magic wants his soul.The blue-skinned mystics descend on the village of Hanish, a land ravaged by drought and famine, and transform it into an oasis.All it takes to heal the barren village is a single drop of tear that rolls down the cheek of eight-year-old Ari.Or so it seems, until Ari begins to turn blue. Evidently, the saviours of his land inten...
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    13,98 €

  • Tales For Dreamers
    Anitha Krishnan
    Welcome to The Dream Pedlar’s emporium of delightful dreams and wondrous whimsies, of impossible illusions and fleeting fantasies!Behold a captivating collection of 100 flash fiction tales where the mundane morphs into the magical, the everyday shape-shifts into the exceptional, and the inconceivable becomes the inevitable.Where witches promise to reveal the secret of happiness...
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    18,52 €

  • The Goldilocks Zone
    Anitha Krishnan
    Newly suburban mother, Sonia, yearns for the support of a community to raise her almost three-year-old son, Aarash. But she discovers, to her great disappointment, that her new neighbourhood is filled with far too many gestures of polite friendliness but no real friendship.Until one day a bike accident transports them into a parallel world that promises her the perfect communit...
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    10,34 €

  • The Gift Of Time
    Anitha Krishnan
    Time! Ah, that slippery measure of our lives! Which parent would turn down a generous offer of a little more time in their day?Not Myra. Single mom. Immigrant. Hobbyist painter. Myra unexpectedly finds the gift of time in an ordinary-looking mirror that cost her ten bucks. She steps into it for a much needed mid-day snooze when her little boy, Arjun, is away at school. She step...
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    9,33 €

  • Hide-and-Seek
    Anitha Krishnan
    Every child’s favourite game. One mother’s worst nightmare.In a seemingly endless game of hide-and-seek, a mother looks for her child in all his favourite hiding spots. But he has hidden himself so well she’s unable to find him.Then she comes up with the perfect bait to coax him out. His favourite toys!Will they entice him to reveal himself? Or has she been playing the wrong ga...
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    10,21 €

  • Memory Games
    Anitha Krishnan
    On the morning after his seventh birthday, Skyla gives her son a gift without his knowledge. Also, without his consent.She has all his painful memories excised from his brain.She considers it the best gift of all. The memory of a perfect childhood.But no one could possibly gift something that simply does not exist. At least, not without unfortunate consequences.Memory Games sec...
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    9,11 €

  • The Party Across The Street
    Anitha Krishnan
    When the house across the street swallows up a visitor dressed for a party at 1 a.m., three-year-old Dorian is curious to know more.Excited at the prospect of an entertaining departure from the monotony of parenting, his sleep-deprived mother accompanies him out the door and across the street to the house where a party is indeed in full swing.Guests with painted faces and elabo...
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    6,62 €

  • Your Mother’s Nightmares
    Anitha Krishnan
    The worst is not what happens.The worst is what every mother fears could happen.Imagination collides with maternal fear in this bold collection of troubling, twisted tales from a fiction writer who isn’t afraid to plumb the often terrifying emotional depths of the motherhood experience.A party across the street lures a trusting three-year-old into an adventure, but thrusts his ...
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    14,88 €

  • The Land of No Reflection
    Anitha Krishnan
    You don’t need eyes, let alone a mirror, to peer into the depths of your own soul.Sight is a privilege denied to everyone by law in the land of Parinara. Every child is blindfolded at birth. Even the dead are buried blindfolded. To see is an unpardonable crime, punishable by death.Yet, fifteen-year-old Viola indulges in a momentary curiosity and violates the law, only to find t...
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    16,86 €

  • In Search of Leo
    Anitha Krishnan
    When you lose someone you love, how far would you go in search of them?And what if the only way you can find them is by first losing yourself along the way?Devastated by grief at the loss of her beloved dog, Leo, Heidi ventures into the woods behind her home, hoping to find him there.She meets strange and eccentric characters along the way, but no one seems inclined to give her...
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    13,37 €

  • Erased From Existence
    Anitha Krishnan
    A lavender farm in summer. A fifteen-year-old girl who loves the colours of sunset. A handsome stranger who begs her to run away with him.It could have been a love story. Except, it is not that kind of a story.  When a strange man approaches Rebecca Classion outside her farmhouse in the dead of the night and begs her to not go back inside, she does what any sensible fifteen-yea...
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    10,66 €

  • A Benevolent Goddess
    Anitha Krishnan
    Countless gods you pray to. Only one answers. It will cost her dearly.In a land where gods have long mastered the art of ignoring the prayers of human beings, a new goddess arrives. She desires nothing more than to help those who call out in faith.But every choice, no matter how noble, comes with its own consequences. Even the benevolent goddess will have to pay a steep price i...
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    6,76 €

  • Dying Wishes
    Anitha Krishnan
    *** Finalist for 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Speculative Fiction category ***When I was seven, my mother died. I struck a bargain with the Gods to bring her back to life.For thirteen years now, I have served as a Harbinger of Death, coaxing dying wishes out of mortals so that the God of Death may grant them moksha, liberation from the cycles of birth and death.Th...
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    19,97 €