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Free on Wattpad for the first time! In 2017, Duncan P. Pacey's debut post-apocalyptic comedy novel brought a gritty-yet-silly wasteland New Zealand to Amazon Kindle, and now you can enjoy it here.~~Amazon/Goodreads reviews:~~"Pratchetty humour with a hack n slash edge.""I absolutely loved Pacey's humor and his descriptions of this tongue-in-cheek twisted world!""The odd characters are strangely engaging and what seems like a cracked narrative, cleverly comes together to tell a fascinating tale."* * *"Bert'd be damned if this bar did anything other than thrive. Smack-dab would prosper, or she'd shoot folk until it did."Bert is the takes-no-crap bar owner of Smack-dab, a struggling tavern halfway from nowhere to nowhere else. All around her is the barren, post-apocalyptic Waste, a terrifying place plagued by villainous bandits, ravenous monsters, and Things that go bump in the night (and also eat you).The Waste is in turmoil. Lord Ash has been overthrown, replaced by a terrifyingly powerful giant hell-bent on taxing anyone and everyone that can help fund his devious master plan. Smack-dab is threatened with total destruction, but Bert has a plan of her own. Can she rally enough help to fend off the bandits?Strange and hilarious, "Smack-dab, in the Middle of Nowhere" is the fresh new face of the post-apocalypse, even if that face has more creepy mutant eyes than you expected.…

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Award-winning anthology of Wattpad Science Fiction writing contest entries.* * *Welcome to At the Edge of the Cosmos Volume 1, a collection of short stories based around themes and prompts generated by Wattpad's many Writing Contests.Inside this book you will find a growing collection of science and speculative fiction tales designed to inspire, to titilate, to thrill, to challenge, and, really, if we're being honest, to win.🥇 Grand Prize: SciFi Profile's Holiday Contest 2022🥇 BeyondSol Category Prize: SciFi Profile's Holiday Contest 2022🥈 ScienceFiction Cargo Contest, September 2022…

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An odd fantasy satire inspired by real DnD characters. This book is a concept draft, a few chapters exploring the idea of Grung as a character and the world he might inhabit. I dropped this idea eventually to move on to an alternate book project, but you're welcome to see the story-that-was, and meet my favourite little red frog wizard.* * *The Southerlands should have been flourishing, prosperous, but that was then. Now its very existence hangs by a thread, its people starving and the Emperor threatening to withdraw his armies and leave it to its fate....turns out it's expensive to run a far-off province that's beset on all sides by hardship. Who'd have thunk it?Lucilla, teenage daughter of the provincial Dominus, may now be the only thing that could save her home - but she won't be alone. Joining her on an epic quest are Jendar, the mysterious titanic knight, and Grung - the, err, frog wizard. He shouldn't be here, but nobody knew what else to do with him. All he wanted was to buy some new spells. Now he's on a quest. Not that he seems to realise.Can Lucilla, Jendar, and Grung pass the Three Trials, find the ancient Godswell, and save the Southerlands? And, more importantly, will Grung ever find the spells he's looking for?* * *"Grung: A Frog Wizard" is an epic fantasy adventure steeped in folklore, and ruined by a little red frog who has no idea what's going on. But he's happy to be there.…

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The number one #minifiction! Micro duology written for @WattpadSeries "Mini-saga Duology Challenge".The challenge was to produce a two-part story, with only 50 words per part - 100 words total. Given that's about six sentences, it's a hell of a challenge!* * *In this vast and unforgiving Earth of ours, one thing unites all beings (as well as quite a few metals) - attraction. Life's attraction to other life is as inherent as breathing, or gossiping. It is within all of us, that sacred need to seek out other life and share in our years with it. We can no more escape our attraction to other life as we can death, or taxes, or catchy pop songs.So how does that feeling, that bond, that drive, connect us to the past, present and future?You will not learn the answer in this story. But, you will read a relevant tale in two very tiny parts that is potentially quite a bit shorter than this blurb.Highest Rankings:#1 minifiction#1 minibook…