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ANTHOLOGY LAZARUS BLACK Table of Contents Dragons, hunters, lovers, monsters, AI, wizards, fairies, assassins, psychics, scientists, explorers, dying gods, Oh my! This short fiction anthology has it all, including the First Place-Winning story 'Psychic Poker'. • "Double Eagle" - A neurotic detective encounters a nightmarish villain. • "God’s Gauntlet" - A scientist must use the latest in genetic manipulation to give herself every advantage to escape being buried alive. • "Sacred Waves" (Novella) - A NYC publicist must save an enigmatic man from the mob, the government, and the deadly thirst of the general public. • "Hairless Hullgaroths" - On a distant world, two students must decipher an alien language unlike anything they have ever seen. • "Watch to the End" - An AI companion of an old woman on Mars must convince her that life is still worth living. • "Dart: The Sliver-Master’s Slave" (Novella) - A fairy-like assassin hunts an evil wizard and a dragon to earn his freedom, only to learn nothing is what it seems. • "Oilcan Jim" - In 1945, a slingshot-wielding hoodlum terrorizes a tiny farm town....or does he? • "Butcher Breeds" - An ornithologist finds herself the subject of a serial killer's interest. But can she find him before he finds her? • "Dragon Soup" (Novella) - A Golden Knight must save a dragon's life so that he can save hers in return. • "Psychic Poker" (First Place Award Winner!) - The Award-Winning story of a bloke from down-under dragged into an illicit poker game where every player is Psychic and no one wants to be there. • The True Dragon of Atlanta (Chapters 1 & 2) - The first two chapters of The True Dragon of Atlanta, Lazarus Black's urban fantasy novel due to release in Summer of 2023 The True Dragon of Atlanta by Lazarus Black illustration by Chris Casciano When May Ling inherits a family curse, an ancient enemy, and a 75-ton Temple Bell, every one of her problems simply gets worse, as an ancient evil threatens the world with Truth and May's lies may be the only power that can save us. May Ling’s mundane world is about to explode, and all because of one Bell. When an ancient goddess appears in Atlanta to tear the world apart with the Truth, it awakens May to the magic world and the power inherent in lies. May’s life is chaos. She is 23 years old and lonely with delinquent child-siblings, two spiteful aunts, mountains of debt, even more bills in the future, and at the end of her best years as an escort and thief. The last thing she needs are new visions and powers. Revelations just make her life worse. More responsibilities mean more chaos and more work. So, she amasses a found-family of misfits from the fringes of Atlanta to survive it together: Bison is a giant afraid of themself, Cookie’s afraid of the world, Benji is a monk in name only leading a band of like-minded brothers, and Kate and Ricardo work at opposite poles with May playing both sides from the middle. In the ultimate battle between good and evil, truth and lies, youth and wisdom, human and not, one single moment of May’s life will define the future of reality. Will or won’t the Bell ring? And what might happen if it does? Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Hominids says "Lazarus Black is a terrific writer with an irre