Kari Kilgore

Genre Agnostic Fiction

Free Stories

Holiday Spectacular: Sometimes Strange Magic Casts the Best Spell

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Welcome to the last day of 2021, and get ready for a trip back to the final hours of the last millennium!

I’m delighted to share my contribution to this year’s Holiday Spectacular from WMG Publishing with Sometimes Strange Magic Casts the Best Spell. You may remember the setting from The Magic Cat of the Hidden Springs Inn and Spa and The Inn, the Black Cat, and Two Halves of the Same Heart, both featured in past Holiday Spectaculars.

This time we visit 1999, which those of us who’ve been around long enough to remember it know was a very strange time indeed. Especially those of us who worked in the IT field.

You can read Sometimes Strange Magic Casts the Best Spell free on this site until January 3rd, with my warm wishes for a Happy New Year in 2022!

And my deepest, most sincere hope that we all experience a whole lot less strange over the next twelve months and into the future.

The Holiday Collection StoryBundle, Different Takes on the Holidays, and a Bonus Collection for Free!

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You still have time for a fantastic last-minute gift of reading with the Holiday Collection StoryBundle! For only $15, you’ll get 72 holiday-themed short stories from some of the best writers working today, and across all kinds of genres.

And if you’re ready for a nice escape from holiday madness yourself, that’s all kinds of wonderful reading breaks for one at a time, a day curled up with your favorite holiday treats, or anytime you need a bit of the holiday spirit all year long.

In that same holiday spirit, my husband Jason A. Adams and I are about to publish a brand new holiday anthology of our own. And we’re offering it for free to folks who purchase the Holiday Collection StoryBundle! Read on for more, and pick up your copy today!

Odds and Endings and The Infinite Bard!

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Happy Wednesday, all, and welcome to The Infinite Bard! I’m delighted to return to the magical stage with a new free tale to share with all of you. Settle in and get comfortable, and I hope you enjoy Odds and Endings, the first of my stories from the peculiar Appalachian Mountain town of Lightning Gap, Virginia.

Be sure to check out my Infinite Bard page for a bunch of other fantastic free reads, including my first two turns on the mystical stage. And don’t forget a new tale will appear on the main page at www.TheInfiniteBard.com every other Wednesday.

Happy reading!

Holiday Spectacular: The Inn, the Black Cat, and Two Halves of the Same Heart

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“The Inn, the Black Cat, and Two Halves of the Same Heart” is free on this website for one week only! This is a sequel of sorts to my story “The Magic Cat of the Hidden Springs Inn and Spa from last year’s Holiday Spectacular, and welcomes our cat Lafayette to the literary world.

It’s also available as a part of the WMG Holiday Spectacular 2020, which brings a new holiday story to your inbox every day through to New Year’s Day, as well as an ebook compilation due out in July of 2021. It’s not too late to sign up!

Great Contest News, and All Kinds of Free Reading!

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This year started out fast and busy around here, and I have all kinds of fun things to share!

The first goes back to last year, when I entered my very short story “The Spider Who Ate the Elephant” into the Golden Nib Contest for The Virginia Writers Club. My home group The Appalachian Authors Guild surprised me by picking it as their winning entry. Then I was even more pleasantly surprised when it took second place in fiction statewide!