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Adult Children of Alien Beings by Dennis Danvers is a science fiction novelette about the emotional journey of a man seeking the truth about his parents, who were always rather... odd, and his own heritage.

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All the Snake Handlers I Know Are Dead, by Dennis Danvers, is dark, magical realism tale about a lone woman building a cabin in the mountains of Appalachia and the strange man she encounters there.

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This novelette originally appeared in Realms of Fantasy, August 2009, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, Issue 105, February 2019. It can also be found in the anthology Tails of Wonder and Imagination (2010), edited by Ellen Datlow.

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This short story originally appeared in Realms of Fantasy, June 2008, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, August 2018.

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This short story originally appeared in Lightspeed, May 2013.

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Once More Into The Abyss by Dennis Danvers is the last of three novelettes about Stan, whose parents claimed to be aliens and either perished or went home via an abyss in the middle of New Mexico. Stan is drawn back to the Abyss when his wife is offered a job there studying alien artifacts. So Stan and his family (wife, son, brother and three dogs) take a road trip.

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"Orphan Pirates of the Spanish Main" by Dennis Danvers is a science-fiction novelette that follows Stan and his brother Ollie, children of alien (or crazy) parents who receive a mysterious postcard from their father, who with their mother, disappeared decades earlier into the "Abyss" in New Mexico.

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Tales from Mnemosyne retells Classical myths, largely known from Ovid, in the voice and tradition of an Appalachian storyteller, in this case, the goddess Mnemosyne. As the goddess of Memory and mother of The Muses, she is uniquely qualified to set the record straight--to tell the true stories without the usual patriarchal propaganda, all the while keeping things fun and only slightly blasphemous. Mnemosyne, as a timeless goddess, knows now and then backwards and forwards and has as much to say about the here and now as way back when. These fourteen tales include the most famous--Daphne and Apollo, Europa and Jove, the Birth of Athena, Cupid and Psyche--along with some too-often-forgotten ones, such as Tiresias and his daughter Manto, and Oenone, the abandoned wife of Paris. Charon, appropriately, concludes the proceedings.

When Alice White--a recluse who becomes a wolf at every full moon--falls in love with a married wildlife biologist, the two must resolve the conflict between the animal and the spiritual