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Asylum
A religious refugee fleeing for his life in his own country. A trickster asking an enemy for safe haven. A horrific visit to a psychiatric ward overrun by its charges. An unexplained theft from a biomedical lab. The last known survivor of a mysterious plague. A wormhole to the most peaceful and secret place in the world. A detective on the trail of a human trafficker.
What does asylum mean to you?
In the 2015 anthology collection from the Northwest Independent Writers Association, seventeen authors explore the obvious and hidden meanings of this theme—from a werewolf on a mission and self-sacrifice in a post-apocalyptic world, to shadowy wizardry, a questing knight, and a gentle prison for geniuses.
Featuring stories by:
Jeffrey Cook • William Cook • Pamela Cowan • Jonathan Ems • Ginger Dawn Harman • Connie J. Jasperson • Madison Keller • Cody Newton • E.M. Prazeman • Katherine Perkins • Dey Rivers • Walt Socha • D.L. Solum • Laurel Standley • Rebecca Stefoff • Jennifer Willis • Matthew Wilson
The Northwest Independent Writers Association (NIWA) supports indie and hybrid authors and promotes professional standards in independent writing, publishing, and marketing. Learn more at NIWAwriters.net.
What does asylum mean to you?
In the 2015 anthology collection from the Northwest Independent Writers Association, seventeen authors explore the obvious and hidden meanings of this theme—from a werewolf on a mission and self-sacrifice in a post-apocalyptic world, to shadowy wizardry, a questing knight, and a gentle prison for geniuses.
Featuring stories by:
Jeffrey Cook • William Cook • Pamela Cowan • Jonathan Ems • Ginger Dawn Harman • Connie J. Jasperson • Madison Keller • Cody Newton • E.M. Prazeman • Katherine Perkins • Dey Rivers • Walt Socha • D.L. Solum • Laurel Standley • Rebecca Stefoff • Jennifer Willis • Matthew Wilson
The Northwest Independent Writers Association (NIWA) supports indie and hybrid authors and promotes professional standards in independent writing, publishing, and marketing. Learn more at NIWAwriters.net.
321 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 17, 2015
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About the author
Jennifer Willis
14 books48 followersJennifer Willis loves tales of magickal mayhem, unlikely adventure, and playful intrigue.
She is the author of that Haunted Coast paranormal cozy mystery series, the Norse-themed Rune Witch urban fantasy series, and the MARS science fiction romance books. Her “Why We Look Up” column for Sky & Telescope launched in October 2021. She is also the writer behind the (sadly discontinued) Northwest Love Stories feature in The Oregonian and has a byline in the British Fantasy Award-winning Women Destroy Science Fiction from Lightspeed, named one of NPR’s best books in 2014.
An amateur backyard astronomer and avid collector of backpacks, she lives in Oregon with her dude, a giant dog, and a cranky cat.
For more information: Jennifer-Willis.com
She is the author of that Haunted Coast paranormal cozy mystery series, the Norse-themed Rune Witch urban fantasy series, and the MARS science fiction romance books. Her “Why We Look Up” column for Sky & Telescope launched in October 2021. She is also the writer behind the (sadly discontinued) Northwest Love Stories feature in The Oregonian and has a byline in the British Fantasy Award-winning Women Destroy Science Fiction from Lightspeed, named one of NPR’s best books in 2014.
An amateur backyard astronomer and avid collector of backpacks, she lives in Oregon with her dude, a giant dog, and a cranky cat.
For more information: Jennifer-Willis.com
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January 3, 2016
All of these stories were good with a wide range of genres including fantasy, science fiction, paranormal, and dystopian. I liked some better than others, but the reasons why were personal taste, not the quality of the stories. Two stories stood out for me which I'll highlight as examples. Coincidentally they're the last two stories in the anthology. Maybe I'm suffering from some form of recency bias.
Travail by E.M Prazeman is not the kind of story I'd normally gravitate toward. It's the story of Sir Brian Buldwen, a knight living in the kind of primitive medieval world you'd expect. It felt slow in the beginning, mainly because the author was establishing the story world and it isn't the kind of world that appeals to me. But I realized about a quarter of the way into the story that I was fully sucked in. I cared about Sir Brian and wanted him to succeed. I was amused by his jester friend, Pick. From the point I was hooked, I stayed that way. Part of it might be that the language used was modern without a barrage of phony (or maybe not) olde English words to keep reminding the reader we're operating in a different time.
The other story that stuck with me was The Last Refuge, a post-apocalyptic or dystopian story by William J. Cook. This story strikes close to home in our current political environment in the US as we follow Hamza, the Muslim main character, as he comes to terms with losing his family, a wife and daughter, and then discovers that his own survival is questionable. Luckily, just as in times past, even when it seems like the entire world has become evil, there are some who choose to do the right thing.
**Originally written for "Books and Pals" book blog. May have received a free review copy. **
Travail by E.M Prazeman is not the kind of story I'd normally gravitate toward. It's the story of Sir Brian Buldwen, a knight living in the kind of primitive medieval world you'd expect. It felt slow in the beginning, mainly because the author was establishing the story world and it isn't the kind of world that appeals to me. But I realized about a quarter of the way into the story that I was fully sucked in. I cared about Sir Brian and wanted him to succeed. I was amused by his jester friend, Pick. From the point I was hooked, I stayed that way. Part of it might be that the language used was modern without a barrage of phony (or maybe not) olde English words to keep reminding the reader we're operating in a different time.
The other story that stuck with me was The Last Refuge, a post-apocalyptic or dystopian story by William J. Cook. This story strikes close to home in our current political environment in the US as we follow Hamza, the Muslim main character, as he comes to terms with losing his family, a wife and daughter, and then discovers that his own survival is questionable. Luckily, just as in times past, even when it seems like the entire world has become evil, there are some who choose to do the right thing.
**Originally written for "Books and Pals" book blog. May have received a free review copy. **
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