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Official website of Science Fiction and Fantasy Author Carol Hightshoe
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Stories are a form of magic. Through them we create worlds and people.
Within these pages you will find a variety of worlds and characters: heartbroken werewolves, Roman soldiers and dragons who seek immortality only to find the cost is more than they expected. Pirates seeking release from their eternal punishments. A fairy tale princess who learns the real reason for the curse is to prevent her from being used by others. A pair of ladies whose story is well known, but have you ever heard their side of the story. And many more.
Werewolves, dragons, unicorns and other magical creatures inhabit the worlds contained within. Various gods walk these realms as do spirits both pleasant and vengeful.
Carol Hightshoe invites you to enter these worlds and visit with the characters she has created in 24 tales of science-fiction and fantasy. Here legends will be reborn.
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Available Short Stories
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The Garden of Mars
On Mars, humanity dreams of leaving war behind. But one woman believes true peace can only be found by returning to the place where it all began.
Don't Go Into the Long Grass
In a future where extinct animals can be kept as pets, one man's obsession with owning a velociraptor leads him beyond the safety of science and into the deadly world of the black market. Some warnings exist for a reason.
Palingenesi Agon
Every ten years the government of Eleutheria opens a small portion of their world to outsiders to celebrate the Palingenesi Agon. Lesdema has studied everything he can locate on this mysterious matriarchal society and is determined to be one of those selected to compete in the celebratory games.
Children of the Goddess
Alexander of Macedonia comes to Egypt seeking the secret behind its unconquered borders and discovers warriors fighting beside the sacred scimitar cats of Sekhmet. When he tries to claim one of the goddess’s children for himself, the conqueror becomes the hunted.
Harbinger
During a violent storm, the winged guardians of Eternal Escapes Cemetery take flight to guide the restless dead. But when one of their own senses a lost soul consuming the cemetery director’s spirit, saving them both may require a journey into the darkness beyond the veil.
The Dragons of Winter
An elven weather witch secretly boards a pirate ship bound for a forbidden island, determined to stop a ruthless captain from stealing an ancient treasure. But some legends are more than stories, and waking the Dragons of Winter may unleash a power no one can control.
Never Finished
God returns to Earth expecting to find answers. Instead, They find something far more powerful: ordinary people choosing kindness when no one is watching.
An Inheritance of Ivy and Glass
An old house. A forgotten garden. A pane of glass that remembers. When Rowan arrives at their aunt's secluded home, every whispered secret draws them closer to a family legacy more extraordinary than they ever imagined.
Professor Vlkoslag's Traveling Medicine Show
When Professor Vlkoslag's Traveling Medicine Show rolls into a frontier town, an evening of marvels, monsters, and manufactured fear leaves the audience desperate to buy salvation. But as the wagons disappear before dawn, one unsettling question refuses to die: was every horror part of the show?
Bound by a Golden Curse
The last gold dragon gave away his treasure to those in need. One act of betrayal left him bound to a single coin. Now, only courage, compassion, and an ancient kingdom's forgotten legacy can break the golden curse.
The Firebird
The Firebird was never just a story. As impossible patterns emerge from the heart of a distant sun, one scientist uncovers evidence that humanity's oldest myths may be memories of something magnificent waiting to awaken.
The Concrete Aerie
A rooftop mural was never meant to come to life. But when a young New Orleans artist paints a forgotten griffin, she awakens an ancient guardian and discovers that some legends have only been waiting for someone to remember them.
Voices of the Shattered Song
As the Blood Moon rises, the last Wardens of the Veil prepare to sing against the darkness pressing into their world. Haunted by whispers that call her a flaw, Alyssia must trust her own voice and the song of a small, newly awakened gargoyle before the shattered veil breaks forever.