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Chapter 3 of Magician’s Misfortune

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Brian Bixby

Harry Eberhardt: professional magician, government agent, and God’s gift to women. For Harry, even a murder investigation is an opportunity to score, not that he’s into corpses, mind you. Or the truculent female bartender and amateur magician “Nightfeather” Sanderson, who combines … Continue reading →

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Chapter two of Magician’s Misfortune

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Brian Bixby

So Harry Eberhardt has a case, a demon traveling the Interstates and killing people. It could be his ticket out of his government agency’s “Siberia.” “I’ll drink to that,” says Harry in chapter 2 of Magician’s Misfortune. That is, if he … Continue reading →

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Starting a new story: Magician’s Misfortune

Posted on September 11, 2015 by Brian Bixby

Meet Harry Everhardt. Harry is in his thirties, divorced, and works for the Federal Government. Harry’s unhappy with his job and in his off-hours has bad luck pursuing women. He has bad luck pursuing women on the job, too, which … Continue reading →

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Not quite the start of another story

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Brian Bixby

A long time ago (July 31) in a place far, far away (my home, which is not where I am at the moment), an author (me) laid down his pen (interpret this figuratively, unless you want to imagine me marking … Continue reading →

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Planet of the . . . absurd

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Brian Bixby

Who knew that the author of Planet of the Apes (1963) was a Frenchman who was also author of The Bridge Over the River Kwai (1952)? Pierre Boulle (1912-1994) had a sense of the absurd which led him to depict men and apes … Continue reading →

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Concluding Summer of the Netherfield Witch and taking a break

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Brian Bixby

It’s been quite a summer for Jane Harris. She’s survived a death curse and a crush on her stepfather. She’s met a talking dog and a dragon. And now all of her problems are solved. Right? Well, “There’s always a … Continue reading →

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Chapter 25 of Summer of the Netherfield Witch

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Brian Bixby

The Rev. Honoria Blood may be young, but she is wise. Hestia Desroules, known in Netherfield as Jane Harris’s Aunt Tara, has been bound by a spell not to harm Jane’s family. Even so, Honoria fears Hestia will find a way to … Continue reading →

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Chapter 24 of Summer of the Netherfield Witch

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Brian Bixby

The witches have fought. The battle is over. Well, not really. Because sometimes it isn’t the fighting that settles things. It’s what happens when the fighting is over. And for Jane Harris, ex-victim of a death curse, it’s time to … Continue reading →

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Chapter 23 of Summer of the Netherfield Witches

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Brian Bixby

You’d think both being a minister and having martial arts training would make Rev. Honoria Blood the person to take down a witch like Jane Harris’s Aunt Tara. But it’s Honoria that’s slumped against a stone wall with a broken leg. There … Continue reading →

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Chapter 22 of Summer of the Netherfield Witch

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Brian Bixby

Faced with a death curse put on her by her Aunt Tara, a witch and former porno star, Jane Harris has hatched a plan to defeat her aunt, save the day, and possibly usher in a new Golden Age. Hey, … Continue reading →

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