Rhea Rose

• Oct-2020
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A particularly interesting collection because it features emerging Canadian writers, covers a broad swath of Canadian speculative fiction, and includes as much poetry as prose. --Robert Runte--Author, editor, critic of Canadian speculative fiction. O...

• Jan-2018
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A time traveling, steampunk love story where a one room school house teacher, Susanna, meets and almost remembers the mysterious, futuristic time traveler, Grant, who convinces her that she is part of a bigger plan. A plan so big, it could cost he...

• Jan-2018
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• Dec-2017
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A childhood sleepover turns into a nightmare when the children discover that messy toys, baking cupcakes and dark adults can conjure magic. An older sister and her little brother must outwit a nasty situation. Will ancient magic rise in time to res...

• Dec-2017
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A nearly middle aged super hero decides to host an alien visitor hoping she'll become his sexy, super hero side kick. When his visit from the female Pulchimmera makes his life take many wacky turns, he wonders about his decision to take on help. M...

• Nov-2017
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A young, Norse warrior fights a terrible, Lovecraftian sea creature for life and love only to discover that the gods have chosen another to do battle with destiny. When Hoenir's sweetheart, Freya, tries to save him, she discovers that Odin's tough...

• Nov-2017
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Time traveling cop, turned private investigator, Jack Sprott hunts down his wife's murderer on a hunch that a high school for bad kids may hide the culprit. If Sprott can "off" the murderer before the crime's committed, he can get his wi...

• Nov-2017
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A dark children's story where a strange bookseller, Mr. Finny, tells the young, Jane Taylor, she can grow a sibling from something that looks like a package of bubble gum. The small girl becomes curious and takes home her prize. Without telling an...

• Nov-2017
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When his old British housekeeper, Mrs. Wentworth, puts the house and Dr. Gary Plunk's theories up for sale, the dead quantum mechanics physicist comes back to haunt her and his boarding house. The new home owner, Professor Wigg, puts the ghost's e...

• Dec-2015
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In this continuing magical, funny and at times naughty tarot witch fantasy series, a mystery, a cat and a sexy free spirit cast a spell. Jane Starr's Cheshire kitten goes missing and her entanglement with a tarot sorceress' arcana cast of nasties esc...

• Oct-2015
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Welcome to the third collection of Keyboard Books, an imprint of RainWood Press. In this collection Keyboard Books offers four short scary tales which star a ghost, a monster, an insect and a fairytale gone wrong, all from the field of speculative...

• Oct-2015
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A young mother descends into madness as a creature that lives in a wall haunts and hunts her child. The horror of its insatiable appetite makes her crazy and she must do whatever is necessary to prevent the monster from devouring her newborn. Keyb...

• Aug-2015
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Dorea Tress likes to run in the dark woods where the forest creatures are not what they seem to be. The night isn't safe, and she is not alone on her familiar trail run. This short traditional fairytale gone wrong captures more than a young woman...

• Dec-2014
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Welcome to horror and fantasy from this Keyboard Books collection of short stories, an imprint of RainWood Press. In this collection Keyboard Books offers four short tales of domesticity gone feral; from the garden to the were-woods, from the horr...

• Dec-2014
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From the misty vortex of Keyboard Books, Star Travels is a collection of four short tales that speculate beyond the ordinary. Between these virtual pages you'll find a time travelling P.I. who uses A.I. to save his wife from a future murder; a child'...

• Oct-2013
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If you loved Orson Scott Card's - Ender's Game - and William Gibson's - Burning Chrome-, and hid under the covers with the lights on while reading Stephen King's homegrown horror, or couldn't put down an Ann Rice Vampire novel, and if you find aliens...

• Aug-2012
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In 1963 no seatbelts adorned the back seats of cars. A small rope strong across the back of the front seats was meant to hold passengers in place should their world on the road become topsy turvey. A road trip brings a small girl closer to the lif...

• Jul-2012
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Newly undead Angel can't understand her need to return over and over to the abandoned child called Alia, the little girl who feeds Angel small cups of blood. Angel fights her desire for blood but drinks it anyway and reads picture books to...

• Jul-2012
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Halloween comes early to Jason, Milo and Tannis who live on a hobby pumpkin farm run by their parents. Harvest time arrives in a few weeks, but dad has disappeared, and the children discover too late that their mom's arachnid tendencies are only g...

• Jun-2012
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In this cyberpunk Christmas tale genetically engineered children compete and kill for the chance to win Christmas. In a simulated, yet antiquated future playground called Daycare, Ceep, an omniscient computer, responsible for creating deadly gangs...

• Jun-2012
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In tall, grassy fields of the northern flatlands, a mysterious lemonade stand waylays lost travelers when strange children offer to quench their thirst. The strange and industrious nature of two youngsters lures a lone fisherman who seeks a...

• Jun-2012
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With his ship, Shadow Hunter, old man Kayden, an alien species trapper, and his secret client, make their way aboard the aging space station Habitat. A special item sold in the duty free shop brings Kayden across the galaxy, but first he must slip...

• Apr-2012
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A sixteen year old skateboarder calls himself Squatch after the mythological forest creature he worships. He agrees to go on a family camping trip to the San Diego zoo to see a captured bigfoot, but a flat tire takes the family deeper than they'd e...

• Apr-2012
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Jing and Gyp used to live a good life with their mother on the moon, but their father took them for a weekend visit and abandoned them on Earth in a dark arcade called Squirrels in Frankfurter Highlight, a 24-hour gamblers' haven of vidmind games. Ji...

A hundred years after devastating global shifts, a young man, the abandoned child of survivalists, comes of age in a world reestablishing itself and its populations. While some areas of the planet have fared better than others, Ches finds himself at ...

A fairy tale gone dark. A full moon, a hitchhiker catches a ride and has something unusual to show to his not-so-good Samaritan. An old motel and a road trip create the setting for two men with a need for each other's company. Headed to the small tow...

Ladon the hundred-headed Hydra and guardian of the Hesperides golden apples awakes to discover that he's been duped by a young upstart. Ladon fears only one thing, the wrath of Hera. The hunt is on and Ladon won't rest until the apple is returned. Ho...

Bestowed with a mysterious gift, a young boy and his best friend, each with parents who are Tenders in a garden of an Emerald City, carry a mysterious treasure to its rightful destiny which lies far beyond their City gates. Ikhet and Omar travel for ...

In this short tale, Lorna finds herself at the center of a mysterious, and darkly magical art installation. When her seriously sick friend, Shirley, insists that they participate, her mundane world goes weird then dark. A self-absorbed Lorna discover...

Sabine is on the run from the authorities hoping to escape the destiny designed for her by those who have come to settle her planet. But can her innate abilities outplay the brutal conditions of the planet's surface and all the technology the system ...