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1) Doppel
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Two twin boys were born one stormy night, while flying through the Bermuda Triangle.
One didn't belong to this universe, the other did.
An easier entrance was made in Washington, D. C. Just a test appearance because this man wanted to find his own doppelganger. Somewhere in Congress.
Around his finger was a thin dark ring with two stones on it - one red, and one blue. The ring was carved into the shape of a serpent eating its own tail. An ancient...
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They didn't know that they were going to solve a mystery that had raged across decades. The mystery that tore down Mary's heart and soul to pieces.
She sat at the diner only to drown her sorrows in their famous apple pie with cinnamon-vanilla ice cream.
John only came to sample their famous dessert he'd heard about all over town.
Mary had just found out that she'd been lied to for years. The truth can hurt. It's those emotional claws and shrieks...
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The black SUV's roared around them to a stop, boxing them in.The only choice was to comply.It looked like there were about five government-style SUV's that surrounded the family's pickup truck and it's older camping trailer."I thought we were done with these guys, Rosa.""Must be a new department that didn't get the memo."Their boy, sitting between them on the pickup's bench seat, just closed his eyes.Time seemed to stop at that point. Three or four...
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In the days when people were owned by the land, two young girls found their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides.
This is their origin-story...
Their Dad had to raise them by himself, as Mother died shortly after birthing them. But as a spirit, she remained on Earth to watch over them. Sal and Jude could see her, and knew their Dad could feel her presence.
The King's soldiers have visited the forest and found their hut, only to be chased...
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To rescue a 12,000 year old ghost, you have to learn to breathe water.
Our next mystery to solve was the toughest yet. We thought ourselves prepared to deal with being submerged several hundred feet below the surface.
My question was how to communicate with something who was older than all civilization as we knew it. What did it have in common with our modern culture? How to talk through an energy shield built to withstand the pressures of that...
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In the days when people were owned by the land, two young girls found their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides.
This is their origin-story...
Their parents were serfs, and belonged to two different dukedoms. Falling in love endangered them both. Becoming pregnant with twins made this even worse.
Their Dad had to raise them by himself, as Mother died shortly after birthing them. But as a spirit, she remained on Earth to watch over them....
7) Harpy Redux
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An old enemy found me, and left me powerless, when I was only trying to help her.
We'd met year ago, and she became trapped in the mystic world she'd created, on of evil and retribution for imagined offenses. I had my own problems at the time, so became the target of her wrath. When she disappeared, and became trapped for thousands of years, I had almost forgotten her.
Meanwhile, life had changed. Lessons had been, learned. People moved on. Then...
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The story continues, as two young girls find their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides. This is their origin-story...Barely escaping discovery by soldiers from a nearby dukedom, Sal and Jude's dad starts training them to survive in the forest.
While gathering herbs in a clearing, Sal and Jude find they can communicate to the animals. But find something else, their mother's ghost can appear to them. They can see and hear her voice in their...
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The ship was storm-tossed, no one at the helm, its sails tattered and ragged.Unless the couple got to the ship's wheel soon, they and the ship would be destroyed.It seemed years before the couple could struggle against the rocking waves and gusting wind to reach the quarterdeck - to at last get control over that ship's wheel.The two of them were able to finally wrestle the ship's rudder to start pointing the ship's travel with the waves instead of...
10) Gaia
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The Sum of the Whole is Greater Than Its Parts.
So Gaia was taught since she came into this existence.
But, she was named after the Nature goddess. Long centuries and eons passed while she was submerged in rock beneath the thin surface layers that living creatures inhabited.
Now some imbalance had awakened her. She rose to the surface to claim her own, her rightful place in the whole world, not just beneath it.
What she found surprised even an...
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A fashion model in a skimpy outfit going to meet an arch criminal with advanced weaponry. What could go wrong? Well, about everything. But maybe not.
Because I had only "borrowed" this body and her wardrobe to solve a mystery - and some crimes. I'd been chasing this person through his various crimes for decades now. Not knowing his organization, just his trail of "collateral damage" where people died. Where thefts of exotic equipment and materials...
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Born between worlds, Silvie fell in love with Earth when she first visited it.
She just didn't like the culture, the politics, the noise.
So she decided to remake it the way she wanted it. Improve it. Civilize it. Regardless of who thought themselves in power.
Because they didn't know real power. Silvie did. And had to prove it to several races who had tried to extinguish hers. Saving her own life was nothing new.
Compassion for others was.
Only...
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Tesseracts fold time and space. I inherited the ability to both find and control them.
Unlimited access to all universes. Sort of.
Yea, freaky. I know too well how freaky.
So, I spent my life on the move, through many times, and many spaces. Forgetting where and when I'd been, wasn't an option. My salvation was mastering the trick of retracing my path. To find my original home, to find the love I'd lived so long without.
It wasn't just missing...
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The Legend of the haunted Spirit Mountain isn't that old. Just a few decades.
And, something to do with secret government experiments in hidden bases deep in the desert.
They must have thought no one would ever find out...
When strange weather patterns started affecting local crops in near-mystical ways, the Ghost Hunters got their assignment: find out if it was some sort of trapped spirit, who was causing this disruption. Move them on if they could....
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Why she was now in human form was a mystery to her - why now, of all things?
Born a truly free spirit in the interstellar gases between galaxies, she never knew parents or anything you'd call a childhood.
So, finding herself on Earth, as a human was a remarkable experience.
One she wasn't getting used to very easily. Because she still had powers useful in deep space, but quite destructive within a planet's atmosphere.
She needed to find out who...
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They call me Mysti. Because of my mystic origins.
The beings who raised me almost killed me before they found out my real value.
They became my mentors, and then - as my powers expanded - my servants.
What they never knew is that "mystic" means both master and novice.
So, I left them to find someone who could actually teach me balance between the two extremes that lived inside me. And, like a double-edged sword, could cut both ways.
And, like...
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You'd think that after a couple of thousand years, I'd be able to find my angel wings when I wanted them.
Pretty hard to misplace, if you think about it at all.
But when, I woke up to go to work this morning, they weren't there. Not in my closet, not hanging on the bedpost, and certainly not on my shoulders where they always had been.
Sure, I was always able to appear to humans without them. But just because they couldn't see them, didn't mean...
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