Spiral Publishing's March Reads
Spiral Publishing's March Reads
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Spiral Publishing authors Kari Kilgore and Jason A. Adams have put together an exclusive bundle of four fiction stories set in March, and available this March at a special price! Check out the stories below, and be sure to grab your bundle of March Reads before it disappears at the end of the month.
And check back next month for your fresh batch of Spiral Publishing's Monthly Reads!
Since the transitional month of March brings all kinds of conditions, from snow to sun to flowers to thunderstorms, our special March Reads bundle brings a variety of stories.
Little Five: A Terminalia Story by Kari Kilgore
Barry Evans: An oddball in the oddest land of all.
A gray-suited accountant navigating colorful hair, crazy clothing, and questionable businesses.
After three months in Little Five, nothing surprises Barry anymore.
Until the day he meets a true stranger in town.
What happens when numbers meet magic?
An excerpt from Little Five:
Barry turned the corner toward his next appointment, so focused on getting into the shaded alleyway and out of the sun that he nearly walked right into another person. Instead of dodging away and shaking his head, probably swearing under his breath, Barry stopped in his tracks without even checking to see what he might step in. He turned around.
The man wasn’t wearing a woman’s dress or a black bodysuit or a shirt with some kind of obscene phrase on the front. He wasn’t nearly naked or dressed like a priest, or even another outsider in a business suit.
Barry watched a tall, impossibly thin figure walking slowly away from him, dressed head to toe in gleaming copper. His insane idea that the man had been wearing a breathing device of some kind made more sense now that Barry could see the two small black tanks on his back.
Barry also remembered a strangely bluish tint to the man’s pale skin, so pale that it was almost translucent. He could see from the back that he hadn’t imagined the man’s hair color. A spiky mane of every shade of purple stood up all over the stranger’s head.
The damndest thing was that color didn’t look the least bit unnatural to Barry’s grumpy, judgmental eye.
The End of the Rainbow by Jason A. Adams
Sometimes life goes down the toilet.
Andrew Fleming: ex-Marine, wanna-be writer, bathroom prisoner.
Until a mysterious visitor offers to free him...for a price.
Join Luchorpán Limited’s newest Special Operative as he embarks on an amazing new life.
Just don’t accept any special deals along the way.
An excerpt from The End of the Rainbow:
“Look,” Andrew said, desperate to get out of this unscathed and un-asylumed. “I swear I won’t write about leprechauns anymore. Whaddaya say?” He held out his right hand, hoping to seal the deal.
“Oh, I think not,” the leprechaun said, turning to face him. His voice had gone greasy, and he had a twinkle in his eye Andrew really didn’t like at all.
“Methinks you do deserve a deal,” he continued. “You’re obviously surprised to see me, so I don’t think you knew you were stepping on any toes.”
He began pacing again, hands clasped behind his back, head down.
“I’ve got it,” he said, rising up and looking Andrew in the eye. “Here’s the very thing. You’ll love it. I’ll release you on the condition that you work off your debt in my employ.”
The Definition of Crime by Kari Kilgore
An Appalachian Crime Story
Private Investigator Helen Hartsock returns home to the Appalachian Mountains.
Searching for a missing person hardly anyone misses.
She finds Martha Phelps: a woman with a mysterious past and fiercely loyal friends.
And a deep knowledge of the secrets the mountains hold.
Will Helen get answers, or regret asking in the first place?
Originally appeared in Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem Private Eyes
Also available in the Spiral Publishing Anthology Shadows Mountain Deep
An excerpt from The Definition of Crime:
A Mystery Almost No One Cares to Solve
Helen was determined to follow the path to wherever Rodney Blevins ended his days, no matter how it twisted or turned. Almost as determined as his family, even if no one else seemed to care.
She pretended to read and watched Martha load everything into one washer while everyone else was still busy sorting into two, sometimes three machines. All typical behavior for this crew.
But instead of standing around and chatting with her friends, Martha stared right at Helen.
Not good.
Then she walked over and sat beside her, which was worse.
"Figured I should introduce myself," Martha said, her voice quiet but a bit rough, as if she'd shouted a lot in her life. "Since we seem to have noticed each other for several days in a row now."
Resurrecting Ruby by Jason A. Adams
Sometimes, New Friends Help Old Friends
For decades, Ruby stood guard over the Holbrook land.
Then spring storms raged across the mountains.
When a piece of his childhood falls, Jesse grieves.
Will new friends help Jesse resurrect Ruby in time?
An excerpt from Resurrecting Ruby:
The big storm from yesterday had blown itself along down the ridges, but a breeze ruffled Jesse’s hair and sent a few leaves skittering across what little yard wasn’t buried under the tree.
Funny how a low sound like that can sound just like…
“Hey, now! Watch yourself, big fella!”
Jesse jumped so bad he near tossed the wheelbarrow clean down the mountain.
