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Narrated by:
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Lisa Negron
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J.M. Needham
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In the beginning, there was the word.
Some religions state that the very universe was created by words. The nation of America was founded using words. Words established the rights and freedoms this nation enjoys. The first of those rights is freedom of speech, which implies so much more than the right to use words.
This anthology contains four stories from four authors. Each story pays tribute to either the ideals held by America’s First Amendment or to the concept that the words people use hold power. These authors took the concept of words and placed it in futuristic, apocalyptic, and fantasy settings.
TW Iain creates a world where citizens only seek to hear the words of others rather than consider their own.
Richard T. Drake crafts a world where a leader must speak for the underprivileged masses who simply can not speak for themselves.
Heidi Angell tells of a world where humanity itself is dying, and a man strives to preserve what he can in hope that any who survive will have something with which to remember the world that was.
M.L.S. Weech brings to life a world where words were taken from society, and a mother plots to give those words back if only for her daughter to be able to speak.
The word was the beginning, but it will never end.
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After years in Wonderland, Alice has returned to England as an adult, desperate to reclaim sanity and control over her life. An enigmatic gentleman with an intriguing job offer too tempting to resist changes her plans for a calm existence. Soon, she's whisked to New York and initiated into the Collectors' Society, a secret organization whose members confirm that famous stories are anything but straightforward and that what she knows about the world is only a fraction of the truth.
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A true adventure full of the classics!
- By evelyn torres on 06-17-17
By: Heather Lyons
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Stolen Time
- By: Danielle Rollins
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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Seattle, 1913. Dorothy spent her life learning the art of the con. But after meeting a stranger and stowing away on his peculiar aircraft, she wakes up in a chilling version of the world she left behind - and for the first time in her life, realizes she’s in way over her head. New Seattle, 2077. If there was ever a girl who was trouble, it was one who snuck on board Ash’s time machine wearing a wedding gown - and the last thing he needs is trouble if he wants to prevent his terrifying visions of the future from coming true.
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Boring!
- By Kindle Customer on 06-06-21
By: Danielle Rollins
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Prism
- By: Nina Walker
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Emily Bauer
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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Forced to move into the palace, Jessa begins training as a Color Alchemist under the direction of the kingdom's most eligible bachelor, Prince Lucas. As an alchemist, Jessa must capture and harness the color of living things. Every color has a unique purpose except red. Red is the untapped magic no one can access - until Jessa.
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loved
- By TravisMorgan on 12-11-18
By: Nina Walker
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The Last Bastion of the Living
- A Futuristic Zombie Novel
- By: Rhiannon Frater
- Narrated by: Kristin Allison
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
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A walled city surrounded by lush land, protected by high mountain summits, and fortified by a massive gate to secure the only pass into the valley, The Bastion remained humanity's last hope against the fearsome undead creatures known as the Inferi Scourge. On one fateful day, the valley gate failed and the Inferi Scourge overran and destroyed the human settlements outside the walls, trapping the remaining survivors inside the city. Now, decades later, the last remaining humans are struggling to survive....
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A breath of fresh air in the Zombie genre
- By sarah on 09-16-12
By: Rhiannon Frater
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The Lucidites Boxed Set
- By: Sarah Noffke
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
- Length: 35 hrs and 23 mins
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Meet Roya Stark. She drowns every night in her dreams, spends her hours reading classic literature to avoid her family's ridicule, and is prone to premonitions - which are becoming more frequent. And now her dreams are filled with strangers offering to reveal what she has always wanted to know: Who is she? That's the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out. But will Roya live to regret learning the truth?
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it was ok
- By Michael klemm on 02-07-21
By: Sarah Noffke
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Zodiac: Zodiac, Book 1
- By: Romina Russell
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 13 hrs
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Rhoma Grace is a 16-year-old student from House Cancer with an unusual way of reading the stars. While her classmates use measurements to make accurate astrological predictions, she looks up at the night sky and makes up stories.
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Beware the 13th sign!
- By Krista Lemoine on 09-22-16
By: Romina Russell
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Time Salvager
- By: Wesley Chu
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
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Convicted criminal James Griffin-Mars is no one's hero. In his time, Earth is a toxic, abandoned world, and humans have fled into the outer solar system to survive, eking out a fragile, doomed existence among the other planets and their moons. Those responsible for delaying humanity's demise believe time travel holds the key, and they have identified James, troubled though he is, as one of a select and expendable few ideally suited for the most dangerous job in history.
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Thrilling time-traveling adventure full of twists.
- By Daniel on 11-13-15
By: Wesley Chu
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Libriomancer
- Magic ex Libris, Book 1
- By: Jim C. Hines
- Narrated by: David DeVries
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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Isaac Vainio is a Libriomancer, a member of the secret organization founded five centuries ago by Johannes Gutenberg. Libriomancers are gifted with the ability to magically reach into books and draw forth objects. When Isaac is attacked by vampires that leaked from the pages of books into our world, he barely manages to escape. To his horror he discovers that vampires have been attacking other magic-users as well, and Gutenberg has been kidnapped.
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A reasonable start
- By Simon on 04-08-13
By: Jim C. Hines
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Croak
- By: Gina Damico
- Narrated by: Jessica Almasy
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Fed up with her wild behavior, 16-year-old Lex’s parents ship her off to upstate New York to live with her Uncle Mort for the summer, hoping that a few months of dirty farm work will whip her back into shape. But Uncle Mort’s true occupation is much dirtier than shoveling manure. He’s a Grim Reaper. And he’s going to teach Lex the family business. She quickly assimilates into the peculiar world of Croak, a town populated by reapers who deliver souls from this life to the next.
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Juvenile
- By Mark Faine on 09-23-13
By: Gina Damico
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Ink Witch
- Kat Dubois Chronicles, Book 1
- By: Lindsey Fairleigh
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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Kat Dubois is immortal, and she's retired. She's long since hung up her sword and left assassinating immortals to someone else...anyone else. She's now a hard drinking, sass-flinging Seattle tattoo artist with the innate ability to read people's fortunes using her charmed deck of tarot cards. Her days of bloodshed are over, and she has nothing but time - an eternity, in fact - to hide from her past. Until someone from her past shows up on her doorstep with news that her beloved older brother and mentor, Dominic, has gone missing.
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"Twilight" with more backbone
- By Amazon Customer on 04-05-17
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Three
- Legends of the Duskwalker, Book 1
- By: Jay Posey
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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The world has collapsed, and there are no heroes any more.His name is Three, a travelling gun for hire in a dying world. He has no allegiances, no family, no ties.Against his better judgment, he accepts the mantle of protector to a sick woman on the run, and her young son. Together they set out across the plains in search of a mythic oasis, attempting to survive the forces that pursue them, and the creatures of the dark.In these dark times, a hero may yet arise.
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Post apocalyptic lone wolf takes woman & child
- By JPaladin on 12-21-13
By: Jay Posey
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Undead Chaos
- By: Joshua Roots
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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The job was simple: decapitate the zombie, get paid, get out. Warlock Marcus Shifter followed the plan perfectly. The corpse, however, did not. Now there's a body on the loose, accusations of illegal necromancy are flying, and the answers are waiting in the perilous alleys between the mortal and paranormal worlds. They're no place for someone who mostly gave up magic after a childhood accident. And given his tendency to shoot off his mouth and his Glock, Marcus is having a hell of a time digging up more than just bodies. When an apocalypse-minded megalomaniac threatens Marcus's family, things get personal.
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Pretty good "beach" book
- By david on 12-04-13
By: Joshua Roots
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Stitching Snow
- By: R. C. Lewis
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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Princess Snow is missing. Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands of King Matthias and his wife as they attempt to punish her captors. The king will stop at nothing to get his beloved daughter back - but that's assuming she wants to return at all. Essie has grown used to being cold. Temperatures on the planet Thanda are always sub-zero, and she fills her days with coding and repairs for the seven loyal drones that run the local mines.
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Dry mouth
- By Angela on 09-09-19
By: R. C. Lewis
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- Shawna
- 05-27-21
Great Collection!
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
These short stories were a great collection. I love having short stories by different authors in one book. It always seems to shake things up a little bit.
These stories really spoke to me and I loved every second of them. Usually, I can't really connect too well with shorter stories but these ones all had me hooked from the moment I hit play. Very well done!
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- CyberCowboy
- 11-12-20
Decent
I've always been one to say that words have power more than just their meaning and lived by that idea, so I was excited to see this book.
For some reason the first 2 stories didn't speak to me much, but the last two, the ideas behind them. The acts of defiance they displayed via the use of words was incredibly powerful, and I intend to check out both of those authors' other works.
That doesn't mean the first two stories weren't good, they were good stories, just didn't illicit a strong reaction either way in me.
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- Margaret
- 12-09-20
Each story has something to say.would listen again
This is a wonderful compilation. Some stories I’ve listened to before, but most were new to me.
I would listen to this book again. These stories definitely have something to say.
The breakdown of books and chapters is not consistent however. Sometimes a book will consist of an entire entry and others multiple entries. Not really an issue unless you’re trying to find a particular one to relisten.——
This is the second book I have listened to by these narrators ( Lisa Negron, J.M. Needham ) and I would listen to another. They both are wonderful narrator’s and both provide us with believable character voices. ——-
There are no explicit sex scenes, excessively gory violence, there is some mild swearing.
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- O.
- 12-04-18
Great Collection of short stories
This collection of short sci-fi stories by different authors lives up to the title. Words can, indeed, be a powerful tool or weapon depending on how they're used. There are 4 separate stories, each with their own entertaining styles. Both of the narrators handled the content and characters of their stories with ease and skill. I enjoyed them both and their voices were complementary in the one story that they co-narrated. This one will get multiple listens from me.
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- Aurora Dawn
- 12-09-20
Four Science Fiction Stories
This collection contains 4 S.F. short stories or installments of stories. They're all interesting in their way and all look at futuristic worlds where something radically changed in the world we know today. I found the last two by far the strongest although it was disappointing that the third story - the zombie one is really only an installment and leaves you in the middle of things, requiring you to go another book written by the author to find out what happens to the characters.
The stories are all interesting and very thought provoking and the collection is well worthwhile as an introduction to four authors you probably aren't familiar with - I certainly wasn't.
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- MK Williams
- 10-14-19
This was an amazing collection of stories.
This was an amazing collection of stories. I prefer to listen to short stories when I am running and this collection had me actually wanting them to last a bit longer and have me running longer. The stories were captivating and the narrators were superb! I would highly recommend to anyone who enjoys short stories!
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- Shanna Tidwell
- 12-08-20
Great collection
These stories are about our freedom and what words mean to that.
The stories, the authors & the narrators are all incredible.
I definitely want to continue the zombie story by Angell. I will be looking in to that!
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- Mom
- 08-30-19
A fun collection of stories excellently narrated
The four individual stories don't all necessarily fall in line with the theme of the anthology, at least not as it's initially explained at the start of the book, but the introductions by the individual authors do a good job of distinguishing why their stories actually fit and relate to each other in this anthology.
The four authors deliver entertaining stories and present us with a mixture of genres in doing so. Jumping from sci-fi, fantasy and even some apocalyptic horror I think helped to strengthen the overall composition of this short anthology. As opposed to four fantasy stories just bleeding into each other.
The two narrators were fantastic and I wouldn't be surprised if they were both eventually narrating for some of the heavy hitters of the industry.
While I did state that each story was entertaining they were also unfulfilling. A problem with anthologies in general I suppose. With stories so short they're usually over before you can really get into them. Neat concepts, a little intrigue, grounded characters but nothing that really blew my mind.
A fun listen, well worth a credit, but not a must have unless you're trying to complete your collection of works from any one of these fine authors.
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