Please enjoy the following freebie short stories. While novels are generally my preferred writing form, I do enjoy writing shorter fiction on occasion. Most of these are older, from when I first started getting serious about getting published. So please keep that in mind when reading, if parts seem a bit flowery. 
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The Value Within - Fantasy short story. This story was actually my first attempt at first person POV. Now, that’s probably my favorite POV to use. Especially for urban fantasy, which it suits so well.Someday I plan to either re-write this story, or expand it to a novel, since I really love the character and basic storyline but feel it needs a little something-something.
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Masquerade - Science fiction short story. This was one of the short stories I wrote during the brief period of time I spent entering the Writers of the Future Contest before deciding to focus on novel-length fiction, and getting an agent. I’d like to re-write it completely someday in order to clean up some of the writing and get rid of the head-hopping, but I still have a fondness in my heart for this one. This is a much cut-down version from an overly bloated first draft, which is another reason I’d like to re-write: to make sure the necessary backstory gets mentioned briefly earlier on since I removed whole chunks of it.
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New Dawning - Fantasy short story. This is another short story I wrote for the Writers of the Future Contest, as well as one I want to re-work someday. Mostly to cut out some of the unnecessary backstory that comes off infodump-ish, especially right in the beginning. I’m also going to re-think the speshul horse companion angle. It’s obvious I had a great affection for Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar books when I was younger. Not that I don’t now, of course!