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  • So here is a sample of his forthcoming novel, The Amazon Legion, sequel to A Desert Called Peace, Carnifex and the forthcoming The Lotus Eaters...

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

  • So here is a sample of his forthcoming novel, The Amazon Legion, sequel to A Desert Called Peace, Carnifex and the forthcoming The Lotus Eaters...

    Archive 2010-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2010

  • Well, in addition to the aforementioned issue of The Blue Lady, I've got a story in the upcoming anthology, Vermin, from Carnifex Press, and have begun work on a novel.

    Featured Interview - James Reilly apexdigest 2007

  • If Carnifex Press can keep up this level of quality offerings, they might just last a while ...

    War Stories mtrimm1 2006

  • Just received word that my story "Infestation" will be in the Carnifex Press anthology Vermin.

    Sale-acious! mtrimm1 2006

  • Sextus Caesar died of a lung complaint during a very cold winter, and was succeeded by Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo Carnifex.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Sextus Caesar died of a lung complaint during a very cold winter, and was succeeded by Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo Carnifex.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • I shall never forget how lovely Clara looked in white muslin, with her hair down, in this latter picture, giving herself up to a ferocious Carnifex (for which Bob Gaunter the architect sat), and refusing to listen to the mild suggestions of an insinuating Flamen: which character was a gross caricature of myself.

    Our Street 2006

  • Carnifex was a barren thing; certainly no battle and no victory, and the operations in this vicinity have at no time risen to the dignity of a skirmish.

    The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty

  • Both in the same bed, we embraced each other with convulsive transport; we were almost suffocated; and when our young hearts found sufficient relief to breathe out our indigination, we sat up in the bed, and with all our force, repeated a hundred times, Carnifex!

    The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896

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