A collection of short stories from Rachel Lawson's The Magicians series.
Everyone Is An Alien Somewhere
Mishio Ga is an alien on Earth he finds the culture and people there more alien than him even odder are the locals the Emperor of the galaxy's alien family the Magicians, who run the alien convention Mishio must traverse in order to stop an alien war.
In Life
Have you ever wondered what life was like for a dead man before the died and what brought them to their end?
Guest starring The Magician Characters Lance Alexander, Blake the coroner, and Dante the assistant coroner and Lando King
The story is about a dead man's last week and how it leads to his death
The Last Dance
The King of Doom sees a horrific mass shooting and tries to stop it by infiltrating the dance night.
Can he stop it or will his attempt to stop it kill him?
OlderMort
It was Blake's least favorite time of the year.
His son Lance passed him an envelope he took it with a great lack of enthusiasm.
"Open it you'll love it," Lance enthused said.
Blake opened it expecting an insult It was.
"Oh thank you!" said Blake putting on a smile.
"I knew you'd love it," said Lance smiling.
"Yeah," said Blake he hated it.
It being a picture of Harry Potter's Lord Voldermort in a birthday hat,
under the picture, a legend in a black box reading OLDERMORT.
It hit Blake like a ton of brick it was his birthday again.
"Mortimer," said Blake's assistant with a pile of more files for Blake to sign.
"What is it Dante," Blake said knowing his day would get worse.
Dante saw the card and laughed.
"Mortimer's birthday is it?" he said.
"Yes," said Lance. smiling.
Mortimer also known as Blake grimaced.
The Emperor is dead, long live the King
Blake Is the emperor of the solar system and the secret king of the dead.
What if he was revealed as a dead man, a grim reaper is basically as good as a dead man he would find his secret life as a dead man a betrayal to his people. How would they react to their false king?
And how long will the hapless new Emperor the Masked Chicken survive his job without the help of the man now seen as the pretender to the Empire?
Enter the Dreamscape
When dreams kill no sleeper is safe.
Sandy the Sandman turns to death for help when a rogue nightmare starts killing sleepers who never awake.
The reapers and Sandy must hunt down and kill the nightmare before it kills again.
"We need that psycho to kill a dream he's good at killing dreams," said Blake.
"Dad that's harsh even for you," said Lance who was used to such biting words from his father.
The Sandman looked sorry for his friend Lance he thought Blake was acting harsh too.
"We need him to help to kill a nightmare that is killing people these nightmares are a rare beast they are normal dreams with a virus these dreams are sick the virus takes over them they appear as old hags with one eye in their forehead they feed on dreams and kill people as they sleep," said the Sandman.
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