Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Delirious Doubles Presents The Impossible Child & The Games Go On
    Delirious Doubles Presents The Impossible Child & The Games Go On
    Delirious Doubles Presents The Impossible Child & The Games Go On
    Ebook47 pages41 minutes

    Delirious Doubles Presents The Impossible Child & The Games Go On

    By Mike Morgan and Tyree Campbell

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Delirious Doubles presents two stories from different authors. This edition gives you The Impossible Child by Tyree Campbell...a woman from another world has come to Earth to study the fallen society of the planet. Early in her mission she is raped by a gang of marauders and becomes pregnant with a daughter. Now that it’s almost time to return to her own world, she must decide what to do with her young daughter...take her with her or leave her behind on the hostile planet...or does she even have a choice.

    You also get The Games Go On by Mike Morgan...a woman is born as an adult into a world where her family has sold her into indentured servitude as a gladiator, a gladiator that is meant to fight for the masses, but when there are no battles, she begins to wonder what’s really going, and once she learns the truth, she’ll be forced to decide what to do with the information.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNomadic Delirium Press
    Release dateAug 23, 2018
    ISBN9780463877227
    Delirious Doubles Presents The Impossible Child & The Games Go On

    Read more from Mike Morgan

    Related to Delirious Doubles Presents The Impossible Child & The Games Go On

    Related ebooks

    Science Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Bridle

      Oct 10, 2021

      Saliva pooled on her tongue beneath the rusty depressor. She endured a constant urge to swallow, afraid of choking on her own fluids. The taste of metal and blood are so akin, it is easy to mistake one for the other. This early in the day, blood was

      11 min read

    • Article

      Hunter’s Paradox

      Aug 26, 2020

      Hunter’s Paradox
      4 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Nov 10, 2021

      Book Club
      4 min read

    • Article

      Concerning The Future Of Souls

      Mar 19, 2024

      As a toddler she had caused a sensation in her family when she announced she wanted to live in a little hole like the ant. Not an ant, the ant. This might have been misheard. She was an easygoing child, not particularly thoughtful and stubbornly inar

      13 min read

    • Article

      All Is Safely Gathered In

      Sep 16, 2020

      All Is Safely Gathered In
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Primeval Comic Book

      Aug 1, 2017

      The Primeval Comic Book
      8 min read

    • Article

      Clam Down

      Apr 13, 2017

      Clam Down
      9 min read

    • Article

      A Literary Zoo

      Dec 9, 2021

      A Literary Zoo
      4 min read

    • Article

      Retriever of Souls

      Nov 25, 2021

      What they don’t say is that, sometimes God will call you to the wilderness, gesture toward the trees, and then, hang back and wave you on alone. —“Prayer for the Wretched Among Us” from The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded At nig

      18 min read

    • Article

      Milla’s Dandelion

      Sep 10, 2022

      The sun blinded Alchemilla as she entered the meadow. It was hidden deep in the forest, too deep for anyone to venture in without a reason. She didn’t mind the isolation, and if anything, it made her work easier. After her eyes adjusted, she took off

      12 min read

    • Article

      Alice And The Jabberwocky

      Apr 10, 2022

      ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe. Once again, Alice found herself in her bedroom, feeling rather mimsy indeed. Every day now, at two o’clock, she would sit at

      18 min read

    • Article

      The Orphan’s Dilemma

      Aug 10, 2021

      In a few minutes they’re going to say, “It’s your turn, Harold.” He will face Ms. Wickham with her thick black frames and smiling, slightly bugeyed look, the question more in her eyes than on her lips because he already knows what that question is. H

      11 min read

    • Article

      Christmas Gifts

      Nov 6, 2019

      Anna Chiu is not part of the “Shore Lakes High Asians”, high achievers with tiger mums and designer gear who score 99.99 in every exam. She leaves school to bus home to take care of her younger siblings and help Baba in his restaurant, while her depr

      3 min read

    • Article

      10 Literary Witches To Hex Trump

      Mar 24, 2017

      In case you hadn’t heard, witches across America—including Lana Del Rey—are uniting to take down Trump via a binding spell, which calls on the spirits to keep the President from doing harm (it already seems to be working). Covens, communities, and so

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Right Time

      Oct 14, 2019

      The Right Time
      5 min read

    • Article

      How the Lark Got Her Crest

      May 30, 2023

      How the Lark Got Her Crest
      15 min read

    • Article

      Run, Baby, Run!

      Sep 25, 2023

      Run, Baby, Run!
      7 min read

    • Article

      Heatstroke

      Jun 8, 2020

      Languid. The word that formed in Rachel’s mind was languid. The figure on the lawn was languid. Its limbs were loose, its joints fluid. Its hands and feet seemed too heavy for the bones that held them. It was draped over the sun lounger, dripping fro

      5 min read

    • Article

      Cricket League

      Jan 1, 2020

      Ivy Lugbill, age 8 Indianapolis, IN I was so excited! My dad and I were going camping! After we packed all our stuff, my dad said, “Hop in!” I grabbed the paper towel roll binoculars I had been making and jumped into the car. It was a really . . . re

      7 min read

    • Article

      A Path Through the Woods

      May 30, 2023

      A Path Through the Woods
      3 min read

    • Article

      Intelligent Creatures

      Jul 6, 2023

      Intelligent Creatures
      19 min read

    • Article

      Best Books For Children

      Nov 4, 2020

      The sugar glider possum may be the smallest creature in the rainforest, but when Santa’s reindeer Comet sprains her ankle, Snap decides to audition for stand-in. Warren the Wallaby just laughs. But will Snap have the last laugh? This illustrated hard

      4 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Delirious Doubles Presents The Impossible Child & The Games Go On

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Delirious Doubles Presents The Impossible Child & The Games Go On - Mike Morgan

      Delirious Doubles

      Presents

      The Impossible Child

      By Tyree Campbell

      &

      The Games Go On

      By Mike Morgan

      Delirious Doubles is a publication of Nomadic Delirium Press. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including physical copying or recording or by any information storage and retrieval systems, without expressed written consent of the author and/or artists.

      The stories in Delirious Doubles are works of science fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, are entirely coincidental.

      First published August 2018

      Nomadic Delirium Press

      Aurora, Colorado

      http://www.nomadicdeliriumpress.com

      The Impossible Child

      By Tyree Campbell

      At dawn the silence awoke Charlie. There were always sounds in the woods, if one were keen enough to them. Leaves rustled as they troped toward the first rays of vital sunlight. A passing light breeze from the north caught the dry compost on the ground and cast it this way and that. Something small crawled through the loose dirt under the ragged pillow with the depression where her head had lain. But these were not the sounds of her childhood, the sounds she longed to hear once more, just once more.

      The woods no longer laughed.

      It had been a risk, sleeping out in the open on the ribbon of sparse vegetation that separated the woods from the low bluffs to the north, where the opening to the limestone cave she had discovered was concealed by shrubs and saplings she had planted and carefully nurtured over the years. Discovered, she could not have fled in time to the relative safety of the cave—and would not have fled there in any event. Mommy bird always leads the snake away from the nest. But something she thought human had impelled her to sleep under the stars last night. They did not evolve, hidden from the stars. They oughtn't have to die hidden from them.

      She would have to teach Seelie that. Your species is given to you, she would say. Your humanity is acquired.

      Charlie yawned and stretched.

      At some point during the night fragments of dead leaves had gotten through the holes in her oversized camouflage tee, and now, as she sat up, they migrated down her back and under the black denims, where they commenced to irritate her. She stood up and loosened her belt, hoping to shake the fragments down her legs, but rough edges always snag in cotton, and that was the fabric of her briefs. One of the last pairs of briefs on the planet, she thought wryly.

      They did not evolve wearing clothes, either. But pale skin in the woods could be spotted from a long ways away. Even more so her hair—still the color of freshly sheared copper, though lately she had found a few strands of white in it—but she hacked it short every two weeks and kept it covered by a camouflage handkerchief whenever she was out in the open. The military surplus store she had come across in Ridgeway five years ago had already been ransacked for weapons and ammunition. Charlie had been looking for items rather more useful. Unfortunately, there had been but two packages of women's briefs (also camouflage, although she could not for the life of

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1