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Born in Nottingham, England, Jennifer R. Povey now lives in Northern Virginia, where she writes everything from heroic fantasy to stories for Analog. She has written a number of novels across multiple sub genres. Additionally, she is a writer, editor, and designer of tabletop RPG supplements for a number of companies. Her interests include horseback riding, Doctor Who and attempting to out-weird her various friends and professional colleagues.

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Midwinter In Memory

Published Jul 1, 2020 · 432 words (2 minutes) · 4 views

Science Fiction christmas far future

Just a quiet little piece in which a character reminisces on the world. It's a Christmas story, so of course I'm reposting it in July.

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Christmas background - pine, eucalyptus, berries

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Raphael

Published Jun 24, 2020 · 262 words (1 minute) · 16 views

Science Fiction flash fiction

This is a very short story, but I hope some people will appreciate it. (Note, it was not actually published in a year's best...the now defunct publisher put that there to try and sell more copies. Not my idea...)

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Ellis Ridge

Published Jun 17, 2020 · 4,090 words (15 minutes) · 26 views

Horror weird west zombie zombies

Zombies in the Wild West, natch. This story was published years ago and there are some minor word choice changes from the original.

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Contact

Published Jun 10, 2020 · 606 words (3 minutes) · 44 views

Science Fiction science fiction horror

Just a little flash piece. I'm afraid this one doesn't make humanity look great...

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Avoiding The Rain

Published Jun 4, 2020 · 1,250 words (5 minutes) · 1 like · 145 views

Horror

Sometimes you pick just the wrong (or right) place to duck into during a storm.

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Water Demons

Published May 28, 2020 · 3,283 words (12 minutes) · 42 views

Fantasy steampunk weird fiction

My brain said "Steampunk fish golems." I argued with it for a while, but could not get away from steampunk fish golems. One day I'll revisit Constance. She's a cool character.

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Firewing Excerpt

Published May 21, 2020 · 1,832 words (7 minutes) · 47 views

Fantasy lesbian epic fantasy lgbt sword and sorcery high fantasy

This is the first scene of my new novel Firewing - release date May 22, 2020

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Curse of the Wolf

Published May 14, 2020 · 1,172 words (5 minutes) · 92 views

Horror werewolf hollywood

This story started as an in joke between me and some friends about how Hollywood can never make a good looking werewolf. Surprisingly, it got published. I was sharing the joke again recently and decided that meant it was time to pull out the story!

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