Whetstone: a collection of novellas by Vai Sharpe

Whetstone: a hunk of natural or synthetically constructed rock intended for grinding metal to a fine edge. In this collection, first-time author Vai Sharpe hones her skills to bring you a trio of novellas. >The novellas are ordered from first completed to last, and are as follows: Tainted Love: A Slasher's New World Order - Cherry Blossom Moonbeam is just your average girl: 15 years deep as the last in a long line of divinely-gifted humans charged with keeping the forces of darkness at bay. Armed with cosmic power beyond measure and more than a few unhealthy coping mechanisms, sometimes she feels like her heart has become as cold and shriveled as the monsters she's tasked with obliterating. There seems to be no end to it, every day the same. That is until Sally comes to town: an amateur monster with swords for hands. By happenstance Sally sets off a chain of events that threatens to rock the whole world's order to its core, and reignite a zest for life in the veteran magical girl. Gunsmoke Surrounds the Bleeding Heart - A mafiosa in war time. A deli girl with a killer left hook. Families vie for control of the streets in winter-struck Solmara, surviving on the scraps of nationwide depression. Cold streets, warm opportunities, and more secrets than friends-can these women of separate worlds forge something that lasts while everything else falls apart? Bean's Dip - Struggle exists for all beings big and small. But for Bean-a three inch tall woman-scraping by in the underbelly of the city brings daily danger. Swept down the sewers, she arrives in Kandor, a perfect replica of the world above solely for folks of her size. A utopia of abundance and easy living under the watchful gaze of its mysterious human architect, known only as the Director. But not all that glitters is gold. Can Bean uncover Kandor's secrets, or will her suspicions put her on a collision course with the one who pulls the strings?

Pagina's: 274, Paperback, Independently published