“But I see now,” Garek said, breathless in awe. “It was never a curse. Never a punishment. Because no curse could have brought me to you.”
“Then what did?”
Garek answered with a kiss, tender and lazy, as if they had all the time in the world, and then some. “Fate.”
THE END
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B.L. Brown writes paranormal and urban fantasy romance about disaster witches making increasingly poor decisions, fairy tales, folklore, and the monsters in the wood. Her books are queer, sex-positive, and full of magic and mayhem. For her social media and direct links to books,visit her website:
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The Glass Queen’s Bargain
First Look Novelette
Atley Rion
Blurb
When artist Claudia breaks up with her loser boyfriend, stumbles into a strange thrift shop, and buys an old mirror, she doesn't expect for it to shatter and drag her into the goblin realm.
There she meets Finnick, the goblin king. The man she's been painting for months without knowing he existed.
She quickly learns that nothing in her life has been an accident when she finds out that her history is deeper than she ever imagined.
Claudia's arrival has caused a rift, though, and something in the glass is starting to stir, too jealous and angry to stay dormant.
Reflections move a bit too slow. What you see isn't always what it seems.
Objects in mirrors may be more evil than they appear.
Claudia and Finnick can decide to work together and finally end what was started before them, or they can let appearances destroy it all.
Content Warning
This story touches briefly on some of the following subjects.
Gaslighting, orphaned, talk of "culling" the mirror children (not descriptive), cheating (but not in the way you'd think.
There are also explicit, open door scenes of sexual nature.
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Chapter One
“You stupid fucking prick!” My voice cracks as I yell angrily and throw my hands in the air, but it doesn’t matter. The pouring rain and the hissing of tires on the wet road drown me out in more ways than one. I drop my arms after giving the ugly, blue, lifted,“I drive this to pretend my dick is huge, but I use a stepladder to get in”truck the most ferocious middle fingers I can muster.
“Stupid asshole,” I mutter to myself as I look down at my favorite yellow cardigan that now has the thick, sludgey mud version of blood splatter on it. I don’t know if it’s fate or a curse that it storms every time I wear it. The irony is, I wear it to remind myself of sunshine.