Bøger af Nathan Marchand

It's a floor wax! It's a dessert topping! It's an anthology! Missing Pieces has become a regular Gen Con feature offering readers sumptuous samples and tantalizing tastes contributed by the authors of Authors' Avenue. This year we are proud to announce that all selections have at least one thing in common. Yes, that's right-there's a theme. This year's theme, "missing," has prompted an amazing variety of worthy submissions we're certain you'll enjoy, from flights of fancy to the darkest depths. Featuring some new voices this year as well as old favorites, you'll find tales and poems from worlds you may already know-and from those still waiting to be discovered. We strongly suggest diving in with both feet! After all, one thing that definitely isn't "missing" this year is imagination. Perhaps you'll find a new favorite! Featuring: V. J. Waks, C.E.Rocco, Damon Alan, Mary Fan, Jay Erickson, Catherine Fitzsimmons, Robert Neal Geiger, Christine Haggerty, Paul Lell, Peter Lewia, Nathan Marchand, C.S. Marks, Alvin Bertstein, David Gibson, Karl Rademacher, Ames Augustus Rocco, Joss'Lynn Epic Rocco, C.E. Rocco, Roger Sicely, & C. S. Marks.

Gargoyles. They are all around us but do we really know their story? Are they here to help or haunt us? Here are four stories that attempt to answer the question, are they friend or foe?

From the mind that brought you "Pandora's Box" & "Ninjas and Talking Trees" comes...a little bit of everything. -An amnesiac cybernetic vigilante confronting the man he once called "comrade"-after he was murdered by him. -A pro-wrestler accosted in the ring by a mysterious hooded figure the night before his brother takes him to court. -A living gargoyle who protects a young wayward woman from her persecutors-and a demon. -Santa Claus' race with a flying saucer on Christmas Eve. -A young man flying a hang glider through a ruined city to save his stranded twin siblings from a giant monster believed to be an angry god. You'll find these and other fantastical things in this, the first short story collection from Nathan Marchand. This anthology spans the vast breadth of the universe and genre. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and then you'll do both again. Herein you'll find adventure, drama, tragedy, and...ninjas (because they make everything better). Prepare to enter... The Worlds of Nathan Marchand.

George Francis is a normal accountant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, who has it all: a disciplined routine, a great job, and a hot girlfriend named Destiny. Well, there are his uber-nerd college buddies, but they're mostly harmless...until meeting his Destiny. She dumps George immediately. They invite a heartbroken George to join them at a renaissance faire to make it up to him. But after entering a port-a-potty to soothe his aching stomach, George is transported to the world of Loconia and chased by ninjas. Soon George meets Sensei, a Talking Tree who was once a samurai. He insists George is the "Hero of Legend," and it's his new destiny to liberate Loconia from the eccentric tyrant Marcus the Morally-Dubious in order to return home. George must survive Sensei's grueling training (which includes dueling a samurai banzai tree) and then rescue Princess Pansy/Roze, who's been cursed with a split personality-one good, one evil-that switches whenever someone snaps his fingers. To complicate matters, the good one is in love with George and the evil one plans to marry Marcus. But George isn't alone. He recruits Loconia's bravest and finest to battle Marcus' Legions of Terror: an unknowingly hapless pretty boy; an inarticulate Barbarian carrying a well-spoken ax; and a redneck wizard whose spells work better when he's drunk. Oh snap! Will George's sanity survive? Will he become the Hero of Legend? Will you stop reading this and get the book to find out? (Just don't skip to the end, you cheater!)