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Myths, Mothers, and Mystics

writing as Rumer Haven

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A goddess brings a statue to life

so it can become the sculptor’s wife.

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A mirror reflects more than what should appear

as a holiday toy spreads less cheer than fear.

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New tech revolutionizes reproductive rights

while ghost hunters fill an innkeeper’s night with frights.

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And just when she falls out of love’s blinding spell,

a tattoo artist checks into a haunted hotel.

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In this speculative fiction collection, feminism meets folklore, fantasy, and science fiction as Rumer Haven shares some of the more random yarns she’s spun over the past decade. From ancient Cyprus to modern Sedona, Myths, Mothers, and Mystics tells the tales of women who must find—if not fight—their way against the natural and supernatural.

writing as Rumer Haven

 

'Tis the season for Santa's elves to deck the shelves, but this one's on Mom's naughty list.

No matter where or how she arranges the toy at night to surprise her sons in the morning, Mom wakes to find it just sitting on the shelf each and every time. Are the kids messing with her? Is her husband the traitor? Or is there more to the grinning elf on the shelf than its package advertised?

As Mom keeps trying to make spirits bright this season, she learns the true mystery and magic of Christmas.

Hellf on the Shelf

Four Somethings & a Sixpence

writing as Rumer Haven (formerly as CK Wagner)

 

One wedding. Six participants. Whether they speak now or forever hold their peace, they all give the bride a little something she didn’t register for. With romance, resentment, faith, fear, mystery, and the mystical, Four Somethings & a Sixpence is a loaded yet light read that won first place in Twin Trinity Media's Accentuate Writers story contest for "The Wedding" theme (press release) and was released in 2015 by Vagabondage Romance, an imprint of Vagabondage Press.

 

Judge's Review:
"The writing is well done, the story keeps you reading and turning pages [...] It pulled me right in, with super fast pacing, so there’s never one single moment of ‘boring’ or ‘description’ that isn’t necessary. No word is wasted, no emotion spared. We get to shift POVs in an expert way from several different players in the scene of one wedding – and being ‘inside’ their heads, sort of the way a voice-over on television would be while all the guests are watching the wedding. It felt conspiratorial. It felt like we were eavesdropping on their private moments. It was simply fantastic."

Ghosted

writing as Rumer Haven

 

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Revolve Her

writing as Rumer Haven

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Dr. Robert has spun Eleanor round like a record. He rocked her world in the UK, then turned it upside down in the US. Hot, dry, sunny Sedona, Arizona is nothing like the London she left behind for love. And now, on her own, Eleanor—Ellie—isn’t sure where she belongs.

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She’s not the only lost soul, however, when someone else’s violent past traumatizes her present. Unsure whether the threat only lives in her mind or if a spirit actually lurks in her motel room, Ellie seeks the aid of a psychic medium named Beverley. Unfortunately, Ellie’s life takes another turn for the worse when Beverley’s own troubled history comes around to haunt them both—and this time, it’s definitely not Ellie’s imagination. That revolver is real, and it’s taking aim. But who is it for?

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Riffing on the song titles and lyrics of the Beatles album Revolver, “Revolve Her” spins a supernatural tune of its own about a woman who knows where she comes from and will decide for herself where she’s going.

She Who is Milk White

writing as CK Wagner

Beyond the Pillars: An Anthology of Pagan Fantasy

 

When a statue possesses its own independent spirit, there's trouble in paradise. In this retelling of the Pygmalion myth, Galatea shares the story of her creation——from her origins in raw stone to her transformation into human form and, ultimately, flesh and blood. But it's not all Happily Ever After as human nature hardens her into something colder and more unyielding than stone...until the strength she finds in human weakness transforms Galatea once more.

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