Arkenberg, Therese

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Title: Of the Generation
Author: Therese Arkenberg
Publication Date: November 2010
Publisher: Roar and Thunder
Format: webzine
Price: Free
Logline: Killing the Heart-Drinker is a task of the generations, but Jorin Churnich will do anything to save his heart-brother’s life.
Link: http://roarandthunder.com.au/2010/of-the-generation/

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Title: Weomene's Moccasins
Author: Therese Arkenberg
Publication Date: Janurary 23, 2011
Publisher: MindFlights
Format: webzine
Price: Free
Logline: When her brother goes on the vision quest that will make him a powerful healer, Weomene must undergo a test of her own to aid him.
Link: http://www.mindflights.com/item.php?sub_id=6850

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Title: The Halcyon in Flight
Author: Therese Arkenberg
Publication Date: February 1, 2011
Publisher: Crossed Genres
Format: Webzine
Price: Free
Logline: When messenger-for-hire Hethen A'Manth is sent on a mission to a rebel queen and her sorcerer, Asmadene the Halcyon, he is caught in a web of treachery and magic where no one is as they seem.
Link: http://crossedgenres.com/archives/02...ese-arkenberg/

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Title: The Last Veteran
Author: Therese Arkenberg
Publication Date: February 3, 2011
Publisher: Every Day Fiction
Format: Webzine
Price: Free
Logline:
The memorial to the fallen of the Pan-Atlantic War was a long tube of glossy, storm-gray marble. It reminded Aaron of a sewer pipe, or of the subway passages where he remembered hearing civilians had sheltered some nights when the bombers flew low overhead.
He pressed the button on the arm of his wheelchair and rolled forward another inch, scanning a new column of white names in the blue light from the fluorescent bars in the tunnel ceiling. He was looking, as he had for years, for the name of Naomi Sheldon.
Link: http://www.everydayfiction.com/the-l...ese-arkenberg/

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Title: After Zander
Author: Therese Arkenberg
Publication Date: February 2011
Publisher: Sorcerous Signals
Format: webzine
Price: Free
Logline: Something in Zandar is at work, it was whispered, that orders things so that when a man arrives there, he finds what things he remembers fondest, and the greatest of his unfulfilled hopes...there is a little more to the tale, a part I often ignored, that said a man who visits Zandar must sacrifice the land of his past, his home. But there were many men on the docks of Nurathaipolis, I reasoned, and surely many of them were native, and surely some of them had been to Zandar and back.
Link: http://www.sorceroussignals.com/AfterZander.html

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Title: The Gallows Wife
Author: Therese Arkenberg
Publication Date: April 1, 2011
Publisher: Shadows Within Shadows from Static Movement
Format: Anthology
Price: $15.99
Logline: Rosemarie wanted to escape her betrothal to the uncouth Lord Rhoven--but she never expected the consequences of her midnight foray to the gallows square. For one thing, she never expected to fall in love...
Link: http://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Within...2630233&sr=1-1

Title: The Sorcerer Next Door
Author: Therese Arkenberg
Publication Date: March 2011
Publisher: Semaphore Magazine
Format: ezine
Price: free
Logline: He didn’t look like a wizard.
I knew he was, of course. I couldn’t forget. My mother attended every single meeting, every protest at the town hall, signed every petition circulating the neighborhood to keep him out of this garden in this house next door to ours, all in vain for whatever bureaucratic reason. But he didn’t look the part.
Link: http://www.semaphoremagazine.com/Sem...rch%202011.pdf

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Title: Every Mother's Child
Author: Therese Arkenberg
Publication Date: May 7, 2011
Publisher: Fantastique Unfettered
Format: magazine
Price: $9.95 print
Logline:

“So what do you think?” I asked when I had finished.
“If you're right, it’s no wonder people don’t last long down here. Every mother’s child has to show how they feel sometimes—nd Astet’s Mercy, in a place like this, I imagine you must feel a lot.”
Some people, facing death, do get emotional. But not most swordsellers. I was surprised at Rathin.
“Not me.” I turned on my side. “But then, I’m no mother’s child.”

Link: http://www.fantastique-unfettered.co...wo-is-out.html

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Title: The Godslayer's Wife
Author: Therese Arkenberg
Publication Date: June 17, 2011
Publisher: Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Format: webzine
Price: Free, $0.99 Kindle Download
Logline: Though I have reason to weep, so does he, and he came by it all for my sake. He rescued me from the pale and tender hands of Rhiel Ghoulsmother, Goddess of Dust. He murdered Her for me.
And as the months, the years, go by, I begin to wonder if we will ever be able to live with it.

Link: http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=149

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Title: Lord Shashensa (slightly revised from its original appearance in Sword and Sorceress)
Author: Therese Arkenberg
Publication Date: September 2011
Publisher: Nevermet Press
Format: ebook anthology, web page
Price: $4.99
Logline: Surrounded by the invading Dhoth, with her fields burned and winter coming, Treseda Nudoath finds herself taking refuge in dreams, dreams which are comforting but useless. Or are they?
Link: individual story, the entire ebook here.

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Title: The Loving and Keeping of Wolves (Story in WolfSongs 2)
Author: Therese Arkenberg
Publication Date: October 2011
Publisher: WolfSinger Publications
Format: anthology
Price: $14.95 print, $3.99 ebook
Logline: She had studied his movements for weeks, and one mist-shrouded morning Tamsa came to the clearing where she knew he would be. He kept the wolfskin there, hidden in the brush around the clear spring. It took her a little time to find it, but she had watched him on many occasions before, studying where he dug for the folded skin and then, when he had changed back, the bundle of his clothes. She remembered where to look.
With the skin in her arms, its marked face pressed to her breast, she crawled back into the thick undergrowth and waited.

Link:Print, Ebook
iTunes

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Title: Following The Mercy Man
Author: Therese Arkenberg
Publication Date: November 2011
Publisher: Comets and Criminals
Format: webzine
Price: single story free, ezine download $2.99
Logline: After the world has been so devastated that the atmosphere becomes agony to breathe, the Mercy Man roams the land, offering--or tricking people into accepting--an end to their pain. And after the Mercy Man comes Henry.
Link: http://www.cometsandcriminals.com/?page_id=531

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Title: Aqua Vitae
Author: Therese Arkenberg
Publication Date: December 20, 2011
Publisher: WolfSinger Publications
Format: Print and Ebook
Price: $2.99 eBook, $7.95 print
Logline: Jenes Inarya wants to experience everything, and quite frankly, she doesn't think she can live life to the fullest in the time she's been allotted. A search through lore and legend from the Eight Immortals of Chinese myth to the
Garden of Eden finally leads her to what she seeks--across the galaxy, to the planet of Arak. By eating food prepared from Arak's immortal plants, Jenes can alter her metabolism
and gain eternal life. In her case, it’s a cup of palm wine. A real aqua vitae. But the prospect of eternal life quickly causes more problems than it solves. Betrayed by her friends, haunted by the prospect of death for everyone she knows, lacking direction, and apparently pursued by the Arakians who made her immortal, Jenes must come to terms with her choice and learn how to live when she will live forever.

Links:

Amazon--Print
Amazon--Kindle
iTunes
Publisher's Website
Barnes and Noble--Print
Barnes and Noble--Nook
Alibris
Smashwords

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Title: Ayema's Fleet (in anthology: Battlespace, vol 1)
Author: Therese Arkenberg
Publication Date: July 2012
Publisher: The Science Fiction Show
Format: Anthology
Price: $3.99 ebook, $10.99 print
Logline: I’m crazy, she told herself, loving vehicles this much. But the words had grown ineffective through years of repetition. Maybe she was crazy, but her love for these gorgeous vehicles wasn’t the worst of it.
Not unless I’m expected to destroy them.

About the Anthology: Battlespace is a volume of military science fiction from 28 up and coming authors. 100% of proceeds from the sales of this book support the Warrior Cry Music Project in Washington D.C.
Link: Kindle, Print (Createspace)

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Title: Farther Than That (Story in Anthology, Queer Fish 2)
Author: Therese Arkenberg
Publication Date: October, 2012
Publisher: Pink Narcissus Press (Editor: Rose Lambert)
Format: anthology, print and ebook
Price: Print $14.95, Ebook $7.99
Logline:
Love takes a darker turn in our second volume of gay fiction. These 20 fantastical tales will take you from revolutionary France to the Souk of Dreams in Dubai, from a fairy tale tower to distant planets. Consumed (sometimes literally!) by desires for love, lust or revenge, these men - or their lovers - will employ any means to get what they want.
Excerpt:
“I’m not really one for marriage,” he said, as my silence convinced him I was serious.
“Neither am I. Couples should have things in common.”
“Do you do this often? Propose marriage to people you meet at sector-level music festivals?”
“Only when the mood strikes me.”
“And why has it struck you now?” He spoke quietly, learning close so I could hear. His lips were long, full, faintly pink. Soft, I imagined.

Link: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Pink Narcissus Press store


Title: A Wizard of the Roads
Author: Therese Arkenberg
Publication Date: November 2012
Publisher: Daily Science Fiction
Format: webzine
Price: Free on the website
Logline: In a post-apocalyptic world empty of almost all human life, a small band of teenagers and a tween-aged boy who is convinced he is a wizard wander the crumbling roads together just one step ahead of the mysterious, nefarious "chittering."
Ms. Arkenberg does a fine job... in her compelling fantasy/horror story. 7 out of 7 rocket-dragons. -Songs of Eretz

Link: http://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/magic-and-wizardry/therese-arkenberg/a-wizard-of-the-roads

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Title: The Storms in Arisbat
Author: Therese Arkenberg
Publication Date: December 13, 2012
Publisher: Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Format: Webzine
Price: Free, 99 cent Kindle download
Logline:
“So the Queen of the Dead is the first person ever to be frightened out of Her wits at the prospect of death?”

“Or frightened into them,” Aniver said. His colorless eyes stared at something in the space between them, something Semira couldn’t see. “Strong emotion shapes the soul, and the soul creates spells. That sort of fear, properly harnessed, could make a woman a goddess. Perhaps even better, from Her perspective, such a transformation would consume the fear. Problem solved—for Her, at least. The rest of us must muddle on.”

“Cheerful,” Semira said. “Except—I almost think it would be. If I could fear something normal like death here. Instead... it feels as if there’s something worse.... If that’s possible?”

“It’s just Arisbat.” Aniver folded his arms. “The dread you’re feeling doesn’t have a source. You’re not afraid of anything, or for any reason. Don’t let it get to you.”

Link: BCS Website
Kindle of issue #110

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Title: Ms Brellin
Author: Therese Arkenberg
Publication Date: December, 2010 (Reprinted Winter 2013)
Publisher: Semaphore Magazine, a revised version reprinted by Grim Corps Magazine
Format (print, ebook, audiobook, whatever): ezine, magazine
Price: Semaphore's back issue is, Grip Corps is $7.99 paperback, $3.99 digital
Logline:
"We were born right here in Hartfield," she said. "Never spent a
day in our lives outside of it." She exchanged a glance with Sarah, who
nodded.
"We're perfectly happy here. With each other."
"With each other." Madeline bobbed her head and flashed another
toothy grin. "
Link: Semaphore-- http://www.semaphoremagazine.com/Sem...ber%202010.pdf
Grim Corps-- Magazine Website
Amazon paperback
Amazon Kindle
iTunes

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Title: Two Rivers (story in anthology, Daughters of Icarus)
Author: Therese Arkenberg
Publication Date: March 19, 2013
Publisher: Pink Narcissus Press
Format: print and ebook anthology
Price: $14.95 print, $8.99 ebook
Logline: from ForeWord Reviews
In “Two Rivers,” by Therese Arkenberg, researchers travel to a planet to study people whose unusual characteristics include a third gender and a complicated hierarchy. The narrator struggles with how the researchers’ interactions with the individuals they are studying, starting with their first diplomatic outreach, play a role in a growing and serious conflict between the planet’s civilizations. That thoughtful conflict and Arkenberg’s rendering of a strange-but-familiar world make this story stand out.

Link: Amazon (+Kindle)
Barnes & Noble
Pink Narcissus Press Catalog