Bernard Fancher

• May-2014
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• May-2013
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Seventeen tales that explore a wide range of human interaction, including, at best, the possibility of finding within everyday experience something extraordinary, possibly even transcendent. Whether introducing a woman detective trying to cope with a...

• May-2013
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• May-2013
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No zombies, vampires, or werewolves populate the pages of this book. But actual ghosts haunt the realm of the living, in a world continually passing away. Eighteen stories that explore the intertwined mysteries of life and death and love....

• Oct-2011
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• Apr-2011
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excerpt: She would come by once or twice a week to look in on him, though he was nothing to her but a neighbor. Yesterday, her excuse for doing so amounted to no more than the fact she'd just, an hour before, baked up a big batch of cookies. She and ...

• Apr-2011
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excerpt:“I got you a rum and coke,” he said, “without the rum.”She smiled again as her fingers enclosed the glass and he noticed for the first time her nails, long and perfectly rounded, the color of dark twilight sparklin...

• Apr-2011
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excerpt:She would have experienced the same intense, awful pleasure of feeling her insides falling away, and felt as well the desire to scream—a reaction she may either have repressed or indulged; but whether she leapt a little that day or ...

• Apr-2011
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Short story excerpt:She remembered her initial excursion onto the ice, being run into by a boy playing hockey at the end of the rink. Actually, she hardly remembered the collision at all. What she remembered mostly, and held onto, was how nice he had...

• Mar-2011
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Sarah Mere dreams to escape and remember--to escape the present and reclaim the past. Dreaming, she begins by returning to the French estate in the country where her future once seemed so certain, before that day in September changed everything.Even ...

Story excerpt:“Let the earth cause grass to shoot forth,” Jacob recited quietly to himself, “and vegetation to bear seed, and fruit trees to yield fruit according to kind…” He paused, considering the implications of ...

excerpt:We leave the car and strip behind it. The boy turns shyly away, exposing the pearly white purity of his bare bottom. Safe from view, I enjoy the transitory thrill of standing naked in the world. Before slipping my trunks on, I look beyond...

He could not help... recall the day he stopped his bike on the bridge intending only to look over the thin spreading creek beyond the falls to the gorge and the green water pooled below. It was then he found himself looking upon the private scene of ...

excerpt:The sky is black, the stars pinpricks of light surrounding all overhead. I whistle softly through my teeth for Midnight, wondering if he’ll hear, doubting he’ll come. Yet then suddenly I see his form moving towards me, darker ...

excerpt:Now the road north steamed beneath the headlights, illuming a path through a lush growth of small trees and bushes lining both sides. Eventually he turned one last time east, crossing a stream, before heading northward again. By the time ...

Epi Martin was an intelligent young girl on the cusp of becoming a mature woman. She enjoyed the nearly unquestioning trust of her mother and the devoted attention of Alfredo, the young man whom she loved and who in turn was entirely taken with her s...

excerpt:All right then, said Will. He gripped his poles harder and pushed down on them, anchoring himself as he slid his skis back and forth to loosen them in the snow. When he was ready he sucked in a deep breath and pushed off the little ledge....