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    Odds and Endings: A Lightning Gap Story: Lightning Gap
    Odds and Endings: A Lightning Gap Story: Lightning Gap
    Odds and Endings: A Lightning Gap Story: Lightning Gap
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    Odds and Endings: A Lightning Gap Story: Lightning Gap

    By Kari Kilgore

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    Visit an enchanted bookstore in a town full of magic

    Chris Ramsey grew up visiting the Odds and Endings Bookstore in Lightning Gap, Virginia.

    Wandering the shelves. Finding endless adventures in the pages.

    Wishing he helped create the magic.

    Years later, Chris gets his chance.

    What would you do for the opportunity of a lifetime?

     

    Also available in the collection Fantastic Shorts: Volume 2

     

    An excerpt from Odds and Endings:

    A Special Odds and Endings Welcome to Our Newest Writer-in-Residence: EllaJane Cole!

     

    Chris had never heard of EllaJane, but that wasn't unusual. The resident was often a real up-and-comer, and the year spent at Odds and Endings made all the difference. He was normally delighted to play a small role in the launch of a new powerhouse author like his Auntie had before him.

    Encouragement, feedback for readings and sometimes works-in-progress. Group lunches and dinners, helping the writer discover and love their home for the year.

    But this year, Chris hoped to play more than a supporting role.

    He hoped to be part of making it all happen.

    For the first time, Chris was going to enter The Contest.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSpiral Publishing, Ltd
    Release dateOct 17, 2019
    ISBN9781393918578
    Odds and Endings: A Lightning Gap Story: Lightning Gap
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    Kari Kilgore

    Kari Kilgore started her first published novel Until Death in Transylvania, Romania, and finished it in Room 217 at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, where Stephen King got the idea for The Shining. That’s just one example of how real world inspiration drives her fiction. Kari’s first published novel Until Death was included on the Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in a First Novel in 2016. It was also a finalist for the Golden Stake Award at the Vampire Arts Festival in 2018. Recent professional short story sales include three to Fiction River anthology magazine, with the first due out in the September issue. Kari also has two stories in a holiday-themed anthology project with Kristine Kathryn Rusch due out over the holidays in 2019. Kari writes fantasy, science fiction, horror, and contemporary fiction, and she’s happiest when she surprises herself. She lives at the end of a long dirt road in the middle of the woods with her husband Jason Adams, various house critters, and wildlife they’re better off not knowing more about. Kari’s novels, novellas, and short stories are available at www.spiralpublishing.net, which also publishes books by Frank Kilgore and Jason Adams. For more information about Kari, upcoming publications, her travels and adventures, and random cool things that catch her attention, visit www.karikilgore.com.

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      Odds and Endings - Kari Kilgore

      Odds and Endings

      For all the people who create magic places

      where books live.

      ODDS AND ENDINGS

      A LIGHTNING GAP STORY

      KARI KILGORE

      SPIRAL PUBLISHING, LTD.

      ODDS AND ENDINGS

      The Odds and Endings Bookstore was simply the best place on earth. At least as far as Chris Ramsey was concerned.

      A sprawling, grand old Victorian house painted purple and green and blue. Endless rows of books jammed into every possible space on all three floors, with a delightful collection of children’s books and toys tucked into the cozy fourth floor turret. Chris had spent countless happy hours adventuring up there when he was a kid.

      His beloved Auntie June the Great knew he was the one she could count on. Out of all her nieces and nephews, great or otherwise, Chris always kept himself entertained when she wanted to browse uninterrupted the whole day long.

      Odds and Endings was owned by a wonderfully eccentric couple who had to be in their eighties but looked and sounded more like a young sixty. For over fifty years, the Seagons had somehow managed to find obscure texts, first or rare editions, and signed copies that supposedly didn’t exist.

      Nothing that came from their bookstore had ever been proven fake.

      Maybe best of all, Odds and Endings had an ongoing writer-in-residence program that lasted for a full year, with plenty of interaction between the writer and bookstore patrons.

      Well, no, that wasn’t the best thing, at least not for especially passionate life-long readers like Chris.

      Even at nearly forty years old, he believed the best thing was the nearly top-secret true nature of the

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