Rhonda Parrish

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About Rhonda Parrish

Like a magpie, Rhonda Parrish is constantly distracted by shiny things. She's the editor of many anthologies and author of plenty of books, stories and poems. She lives with her husband and three cats in Edmonton, Alberta, and she can often be found there playing Dungeons and Dragons, bingeing crime dramas or cheering on the Oilers.

Her website, updated regularly, is at http://www.rhondaparrish.com and her Patreon, updated even more regularly, is at https://www.patreon.com/RhondaParrish.

"Rhonda Parrish is a shapeshifter with talents to match her every incarnation- magpie tenacity for picking the shiniest submissions, nightingale notes for crafting tales, and bright, feline eyes for seeking out her photographic subjects. She balances on the knife-edge of darkness and light, a sorceress of both realms." - Sara Cleto

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Clockwork, Curses, and Coal: Steampunk and Gaslamp Fairy Tales Mar 2, 2021

by Rhonda Parrish , Christina Ruth Johnson , Beth Cato , Sarah Van Goethem , Brian Trent , Wendy Nikel , Reese Hogan , Alethea Kontis , Laura VanArendonk Baugh , M.L.D. Curelas

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Fairies threaten the world of artifice and technology, forcing the royal family to solve a riddle to stop their world from irrevocable change; a dishonest merchant uses automatons as vessels for his secrets and lies; a woman discovers the secret of three princesses whose shoes get scuffed while they sleep. These and so many other steampunk and gaslamp fairy tales await within the pages of Clockwork, Curses and Coal.

Retellings of Hansel and Gretel, The Princess and the Pea, Pinocchio, The Twelve Dancing Princesses and more are all showcased alongside some original fairy tale-like stories. Featuring stories by Melissa Bobe, Adam Brekenridge, Beth Cato, MLD Curelas, Joseph Halden, Reese Hogan, Diana Hurlburt, Christina Johnson, Alethea Kontis, Lex T. Lindsay, Wendy Nikel, Brian Trent, Laura VanArendonk Baugh and Sarah Van Goethem.

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Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas May 26, 2020

by Rhonda Parrish , Beth Cato , Chadwick Ginther , Krista D. Ball , SG Wong , Grace Bridges

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If you think cats and water don’t mix, think again.

Plunge into worlds of piratical cats: some selfish, some mischievous, all fond of hitting the catnip stash. From ships on the deep blue sea, to ships flying through the depths of space, and even visiting from beyond the veil, these cats are determined and on a mission.

Featuring thirteen "tails" of adventure-loving cats, puns, and fun by: Megan Fennell; S.G. Wong; Rebecca Brae; Grace Bridges; Lizz Donnelly; Blake Liddell; Frances Pauli; JB Riley; Joseph Halden; Leslie Van Zwol; Krista D. Ball; Chadwick Ginther; Rose Strickman; and Beth Cato.

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Hollow Mar 24, 2020

by Rhonda Parrish

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A car accident shattered sixteen-year-old Morgan's family. Now her brother’s dead, her mom's paralyzed in more ways than one, her dad lives at work and her seven-year-old sister Amy tries too freaking hard to salvage everything. What’s more, high school is its own special kind of hell, where her ex-boyfriend delights in spreading rumors that shred her reputation and make her feel like a loser.

When she finds an old camera in a creepy abandoned hospital, it seems like her luck is finally changing. And it is changing--from bad to worse. Because of course it is. Each time Morgan photographs one of her classmates they become corrupted versions of themselves. It's like the camera steals their goodness, their essence, and leaves them hollow.

Then her sister uses the camera to take a selfie.

No matter what the cost, Morgan will find a way to reverse the effects of the cursed camera and save Amy, before her already-fractured family completely self-destructs.

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Air: Sylphs, Spirits, & Swan Maidens (Elemental Anthology Book 3) Aug 18, 2020

by Rhonda Parrish , Chadwick Ginther , Laura VanArendonk Baugh , Sarah Van Goethem , Mara Malins

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Whimsical, Inquisitive, Quick-Witted

Air is essential for life. Air is so important that breathing is instinctual. Yet Air is unstable and capricious, blowing gently as a summer breeze in one moment and blasting with the fury of a tornado in the next. No wonder that tricksters, fairies, and spirits belong to Air just as much as winged creatures. Elusive and ethereal, Air’s denizens are difficult to find and harder to capture.

Brave the ever-changing world of Air with these twenty-one stories and poems, featuring: Rose Strickman; Davian Aw; Mark Bruce; Alexandra Seidel; Damascus Mincemeyer; Cherry Potts; Ellen Huang; Giselle Leeb; Bronwynn Erskine; Kevin Cockle; Elizabeth R. McClellan; Chadwick Ginther; Christa Hogan; Rowena McGowan; Laura VanArendonk Baugh; Alyson Faye; Mara Malins; Sara C. Walker; Elise Forier Edie; Oliver Smith; and Sarah Van Goethem.

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Earth: Giants, Golems, & Gargoyles (Elemental Anthology Book 2) Aug 13, 2019

by Rhonda Parrish , Jane Yolen , Chadwick Ginther

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We come from dust, and to dust we return…

Earth is steady. Solid. Reliable. It is the source of life and the thing which sustains it. But it’s not always serene and peaceful. It takes a lot to stir the earth but when it does, things get dramatic. Quakes swallow cities. Oceans rise. Mountains crumble. Earth is not weak, and it knows no pity.

Learn the strength of Earth and its creations in these eighteen stories, including: rusting dragons; mysterious summer jobs; magical inheritances; and dryads engaged in a bitter war.

Featuring: Jane Yolen; Chadwick Ginther; Kevin Cockle; Damascus Mincemeyer; Laura VanArendonk Baugh; Catherine Macleod; Mara Malins; Steve Toase; Suzanne J. Willis; Blake Jessop; Buzz Dixon; David L. Craddock; Rose Strickman; Gregory L. Norris; Tamsin Showbrook; Sarah Van Goethem; Tim Ford; and V.F. LeSann.

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Equus (Rhonda Parrish's Magical Menageries Book 5) Jul 17, 2017

by Jane Yolen , Tamsin Showbrook , M.L.D Curelas , Laura VanArendonk Baugh , Dan Koboldt , Pat Flewwelling , Stephanie A. Cain , Sandra Wickham , J.G. Formato , Rhonda Parrish

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There’s always something magical about horses, isn’t there? Whether winged or at home in the water, mechanical or mythological, the equines that gallop through these pages span the fantasy spectrum. In one story a woman knits her way up to the stars and in another Loki's descendant grapples with bizarre transformations while fighting for their life. A woman races on a unique horse to save herself from servitude, while a man rides a chariot through the stars to reclaim his self-worth. From steampunk-inspired stories and tales that brush up against horror to straight-up fantasy, one theme connects them all: freedom.

Featuring nineteen fantastic stories of equines both real and imagined by J.G. Formato, Diana Hurlburt, Tamsin Showbrook, M.L.D Curelas, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, VF LeSann, Dan Koboldt, J.J. Roth, Susan MacGregor, Pat Flewwelling, Angela Rega, Michael Leonberger, Sandra Wickham, Stephanie A. Cain, Cat McDonald, Andrew Bourelle, Chadwick Ginther, K.T. Ivanrest, and Jane Yolen.

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Fire: Demons, Dragons, and Djinns (Elemental Anthology Book 1) Aug 14, 2018

by Rhonda Parrish , Krista D. Ball , Gabrielle Harbowy , Kevin Cockle , Chadwick Ginther , Claude Lalumière , V.F. LeSann , Laura VanArendonk Baugh , Susan MacGregor , Lizbeth Ashton

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The ability for people to control (to some extent at least) fire has long been held as one of the major events that contributed to human evolution, but when fire eludes or escapes our control it is also one of the most destructive forces on earth. Associated with passion, power, transformation and purification, fire is a ferocious element with an unquenchable appetite.

Discover the power of Fire and the creatures that thrive on it in these twenty-one stories, including: the true inspiration behind Jim Morrison’s songs; a special weapon used in World War II; the secret in the depths of a mortuary furnace; a fantastical card game; and a necromancer out on what may be his last job.

Featuring: Blake Jessop; Kevin Cockle; Lizbeth Ashton; Dusty Thorne; V.F. LeSann; K.T. Ivanrest; Hal J. Friesen; Laura VanArendonk Baugh; Krista D. Ball; Mara Malins; Claude Lalumière; Susan MacGregor; JB Riley; Damascus Mincemeyer; Heather M. O’Connor; Gabrielle Harbowy; R. W. Hodgson; Chadwick Ginther; Wendy Nikel; Annie Neugebauer; and J.G. Formato.

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E is for Evil (Alphabet Anthologies) May 15, 2018

by Rhonda Parrish , Beth Cato , Laura VanArendonk Baugh , L.S. Johnson , Brittany Warman , Sara Cleto , C.S. MacCath , Sucanne J. Willis , Andrew Bourelle , Hal J. Friesen

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E is for Evil contains twenty-six individual stories which each shine a different light on the multi-faceted idea that is evil. Running the gamut from lyrical fantasy to gritty horror in these stories possessed toys, hellish bureaucrats, scientists with questionable morals, abusive partners and even lingerie sellers all take their turn in the spotlight.

Featuring fresh new stories from Michael Fosburg, Lynn Hardaker, Stephanie A. Cain, Andrew Bourelle, Suzanne J. Willis, Samantha Kymmell-Harvey, Hal J. Friesen, C.S. MacCath, Michael B. Tager, Jonathan C. Parrish, Amanda C. Davis, Lilah Wild, Sara Cleto, Alexandra Seidel, Mary Alexandra Agner, Cory Cone, Jeanne Kramer-Smyth, Beth Cato, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, Megan Engelhardt, Danielle Davis, Brittany Warman, BD Wilson, L.S. Johnson, Pete Aldin and Michael M. Jones.

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F is for Fairy (Alphabet Anthologies) May 7, 2019

by Rhonda Parrish , Pete Aldin , Steve Bornstein , Andrew Bourelle , Stephanie Cain , Beth Cato , Sara Cleto , Cory Cone , Danielle Davis , Megan Engelhardt

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“Anyone who believes that faeries are wee, golden-haired creatures with dragon-fly wings and sweet intentions has never met a real faerie.” –Suzanne Willis, “A Silver Thread Between Worlds”

Retellings of familiar favourites from new perspectives, and brand new stories share the pages of this fairy-themed collection. Within these offerings you’ll find fairy music and food, contracts (making and breaking them), changelings, circles and curses–these stories deliver all the things you already love about fairies and a few new tricks as well.

A dusting of dragons, shapeshifters and ogres accompany these tales which include feminist fairies overcoming trauma, Norse fairies breaking the rules to interfere in human affairs, intergalactic fairies hitching a ride to a new home, political satire featuring an idiot king and talking animals, a new Robin Archer story, fairy run nightclubs and so, so much more.

Altogether this anthology includes twenty-six brand new tales–one for each letter of the alphabet–from contributors Pete Aldin, Steve Bornstein, Andrew Bourelle, Stephanie A. Cain, Beth Cato, Sara Cleto, Cory Cone, Danielle Davis, Megan Engelhardt, Michael Fosburg, Joseph Halden, Lynn Hardaker, L.S. Johnson, Michael M. Jones, Jeanne Kramer-Smyth, Samantha Kymmell-Harvey, C.S. MacCath, Jonathan C. Parrish, Alexandra Seidel, Michael B. Tager, Rachel M. Thompson, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, Brittany Warman, Lilah Wild, Suzanne J. Willis and BD Wilson.

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D is for Dinosaur (Alphabet Anthologies) Feb 21, 2017

by Rhonda Parrish , L.S. Johnson , Laura VanArendonk Baugh , Beth Cato , BD Wilson , Cory Cone , Simon Kewin , Samantha Kymmell-Harvey , C.S. MacCath , KV Taylor

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For the fourth installment of Rhonda Parrish’s Alphabet Anthologies, contributors were challenged to write about dinosaurs. The resulting twenty-six stories contain widely different interpretations of the dinosaur theme and span the spectrum from literal to metaphoric.

Within these stories -- set in alternative histories, far-flung futures and times just around the corner -- dinosaurs whimper and waste away or roar and rage. People can be dinosaurs, as can ideas, fictions and flesh. Knitted dinosaurs share space with ghostly, genetically engineered and even narcotic ones.

Teenagers must embrace their inner dinosaurs in order to find peace and belonging, a dying woman duels a God in a far future city that echoes aspects of our past, an abused wife accompanies her husband on a hunt for an ancient power and finds more than she could ever have imagined and a girl with wonderful magical powers stumbles across the bones of a giant long-dead lizard. And so much more!

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Haunted Hospitals: Eerie Tales About Hospitals, Sanatoriums, and Other Institutions Aug 5, 2017

by Mark Leslie , Rhonda Parrish

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A look inside the hospitals, asylums, and sanatoriums in which formal spectral residents refuse to move on.

Hospitals are supposed to be places of healing, places of birth, and places of hope. But with all of the varying highs and lows that are experienced in these buildings, is it any wonder when echoes linger indefinitely? How about asylums, which house some of society’s worst offenders and troubled inmates, or sanatoriums, places where the mentally and physically ill find themselves trapped, even after death?

Journey inside the history of these macabre settings and learn about the horrors from the past that live on in these frighteningly eerie tales from Canada, the United States, and around the world.

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Shroud 16: The Quarterly Journal of Speculative Writing (Volume 4) (Shroud Magazine) Apr 16, 2015

by Tim Deal , Jarod K. Anderson , D.W. Craigie , Jaq Greenspon , Jacob Haddon , Sydney Leigh , Cathryn Grant , Rhonda Parrish , Rie Sheridan Rose , Kendra L. Saunders

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Magic, rebellion, and the struggle for survival in a world where fear and prejudice sparks a savage kind of violence. The voices always come, always, but this time Jason has a plan. Dan Hillerman's having a bad day, a point that he's quick to share in his status update on social media -- only Dan's day has just begun, and things are plummeting down a decidedly worse path. A Vegas rockstar defies the grave to offer his deadliest performance. Goran and Tatyana continue their adventures as they pass through the fabled black stone city of Lone Watch and encounter treacherous mercenaries, shadowy intrigue, and deadly obstacles to their quest in "Edge of the World," the second installment of TALES OF K'AERAN. These and other thrilling tales of dark wonder, horror, fantasy, mystery, and more.

Full table of contents: COMING STORM, by Rhonda Parrish; EVICTION NOTICE, by Rie Sheridan Rose; TALES OF K'AERAN: EDGE OF THE WORLD, by D.W. Craigie; ESTUARY, by Sydney Leigh; THE SACRAMENT OF MURDER, by Cathryn Grant; STATUS UPDATE, by Jacob Haddon; THE GOOD FRIEND, by Jaq Greenspon; AN EXPECTED VISITOR, by Kendra L. Saunders; ONE STORY HOME, by Jarod K. Anderson.

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