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✧ This is the updated canon for The Quimby Hotel, in novel form.It's 1964, and with segregation ending, tensions between humans and mages are at an all-time high. Cairo Quimby, a twenty-something half-mag' nobody who turns in dead criminals for a living, wants nothing more than to leave the past behind, but when the Inusit Court sends officers to beat him bloody for something his stepfather's done, he has little choice but to go back home to the floundering hotel his parents run and get to the bottom of what's going on. His father is hiding something, and whether he likes it or not, the Court have decided Cairo is involved.Unfortunately, home means siblings that hate him, new siblings he's never met, dealing with his stubborn, bullheaded father, and time running out as hotel guests begin turning up dead one by one. Cairo has no choice but to pick up his magic again, enlist the help of a sister he loathes, and figure out what's really behind this vendetta against the Quimbys ⸻ even if it means confronting the reason he left in the first place.The clock is ticking, and there are sins to atone for, blood to be spilled.…

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Welcome to Fairytaletopia, where everything is happily ever after... until it isn't. Most people either loathe the idea of or don't believe in the legend of the Writer, a mysterious being in a faraway tower who writes the life story of every person who has ever lived with an enchanted pen. When an alliance of rogue mages decides to rise up against their destinies and take back power from the lazy, complacent royals ruling over the land, they don't realize what they've bargained for. An ancient curse is awakened by the death of Queen Snow White, and the gang of thieves robbing the Snow palace on the day she is killed become entangled in her destiny, changing theirs forever.Ramona Swan and her crew, fairytale misfits barely scraping by in an old van and stealing to live, find themselves swept up into a life they never asked for ⸻ discovering the Writer is real and that he needs them to save the world. They chase through dangerous forests, battle monsters, and brave raging seas in a race against time to stop the newly emerged Alliance of Darkness from shattering the most famous fairy tales of all time, tearing down everything Fairytaletopia stands for in the process. The Alliance is brimming with wavering loyalties and sides bound to split, but their goal is set, and they'll do everything in their power to achieve it. Little do they know the royals won't go down without a fight.The thieves never asked to be caught up in all of this, but no one ever can truly predict what fate has in store. They're fighting for something they've never believed in before and questioning everything they've ever known. Along the way they'll learn what family truly is... and forge their own destinies, together.✹ GLORIOUS AWARDS 2023 WINNER: Action/Adventure, 1st Place.✹ THE BOOK AWARDS 2023 WINNER: Action/Adventure, 3rd Place.© Ginger Beckett 2022-25…

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The MCIA investigates magic-related crimes, and Squad Zero is the best team in the business. Much to their bosses' dismay, the key to their success is that they also never follow the plan. But this time, their trickshot ways and snap decisions may not be enough. A conspiracy is unraveling, one that may extend past the gang violence that permeates the South ⸻ all the way up to the feds and beyond. Seven cold cases, seven missing kids, and seven expert assassins for the Mythica, wealthy gangsters straight from hell who have their claws dug into everything. The sirens fight over South Florida, the Wendigo blood purists hunt magical abnormalities in the backroads of Louisiana. But the Mythica have dominated the criminal underworld for years, slipping through the MCIA's fingers like water. Something reeks of corruption.It's 1965. Everyone hates the president of the United States. That's nothing new. But his son, who's kept hidden behind closed doors with a dark secret that could cripple the country's very tentative status on the hierarchy of worldwide power if it got out? Well, no one paid him any mind. Not until the attempted assassination. And now it's a curious matter: who would want to kill the first son ⸻ and why? In such a delicate situation, how do you fight fire with fire? An assassin for an assassin. Or seven, to be precise. When Agent Bridge was assigned to the case, he was expecting plots from foreign countries to exploit the exposed weakness. He wasn't expecting the Mythica to be involved. But the president is running out of options. And a deal's a deal. His son's life, for his soul.…

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The 'end of the world' is rarely, really, the end of the world. But it could be the end of everything you know. Your friends. Your coworkers. Your family.What if you were left stranded with your classmates after a natural disaster? What if no one could get any signal and no help could reach you? And what if, on top of all that, a meteor filled with celestial space dust had crashed into your city, destroying whatever was left of where you lived and making everyone a little... different?Oh yeah. And the alligators. I almost forgot to mention the alligators.We have three rules. Travel in packs. Get to the mainland without dying. And don't drink the water.…

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Mutants have existed long enough to be properly integrated into society, but not long enough for everyone to have accepted them. Outside of the United States, a hub for mutant immigrants fleeing the oppressive laws of their own countries, fear of mutant syndrome bleeds through the cracks in mysterious deaths, obnoxious court rulings, and social isolation. It isn't all sunshine and rainbows in America, either ⸻ some states are more progressive than others, and it's a constant battle over who has what rights and where. But there is one class of mutants that nearly everyone can agree on avoiding: Class F. The Freaks. For awkwardly tall and perpetually oblivious homeschooler Noah Kirby, all that exists is his house and the little graveyard on his street in North Carolina. When the opportunity comes along to enroll as a first-year at F Class Academy, an up-and-coming school for the most dangerous mutants of the generation, it means opening his eyes to an entirely new world, one where mutant life isn't as easy as he thought it was. Noah has three goals to ensure his start at FCA goes smoothly: 1. Befriend his moody Ability Management partner Amaris, so that they don't both risk failing the class,2. Get to the bottom of why he keeps waking up surrounded by dissected corpses, and3. Make it through the year without getting killed by one of his classmates' disastrous accidents. It may sound impossible, but with a dash of optimism and the help of a lot of new friends, he's confident he can make it work. FCA is nothing like he's ever seen before, but it can't be so scary. At the end of the day, mutant highschoolers are just like any other highschoolers... right?[ This story is unabashedly inspired by franchises I liked when I was a kid. I'm mostly writing it just for fun and for my friends to read, but if you also liked stuff like the X-Men, Percy Jackson, and Ever After High, you might have a fun time too! ]…

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storage for sketches of my characters and the like. and me rambling, which is everyone's favorite.…

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Five years ago, Cairo Quimby disappeared without a trace. His family has neglected to speak of him since, running the slightly strange but unassuming hotel he grew up in as if nothing ever happened. Until Cairo, a lone wanderer roaming a lost and dangerous world, has a run-in at a diner with mysterious strangers who are after his stepfather ⸻ as it turns out, Richard Quimby has been hiding something, and hiding something valuable. He's broken the viciously enforced code of In-Betweens by whatever his hotel is harboring, and against his better judgment, Cairo's loyalty takes him back. Back to his dreaded childhood home, back to the place to which he swore he'd never return.Cairo's family is nothing ordinary. Strange things happen when they want them to, and impossible is a limit that simply does not exist in their plane of being. But it's this strangeness that he's been rejecting, that he's been trying to run from all these years. Unfortunately, whether he likes it or not, he must enlist the help of siblings who resent him to unveil the secrets behind the vendetta against his stepfather and fight the forces determined to tear his family apart. Oh, and of course, he has to participate in a race for inheritance privileges ⸻ something he never even wanted. Cairo's own past has come back to haunt him, tangled with everyone else's and a million times worse.Time is ticking, and there are sins to atone for, blood to be spilled.#ONC2024 - Prompt 13Total Word Count: 40,310#1 in #intrigue 2/24-3/21© Ginger Beckett 2024…

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Musings and observations of a lost little girl, who wouldn't let her emotions anywhere except the page. The second draft of my first poetry book.© Ginger Beckett 2023(enjoy my mediocre ramblings)…