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The Smashwords summer sale has come round again, and throughout the whole of July, dozens of Sea Lion Press books are 50% off! We've got thematic anthologies and we've got big chunky series, we've got war stories and slices of life, we've got British politics and we've got hippos in America -- all of it waiting for you! Discuss this Article

By Roshita Narasimhan. On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a specific theme (changed monthly). The theme for the 90th contest was The Nineties . Washington DC, the American Republic, 1994 The statue stood proudly as rope enveloped it. Tall, bronze, dignified. The figure still raised his hand much as a preacher would, making an imaginary speech to an imaginary crowd. His face frozen in a smile. T

By Ryan Fleming. Outside the Midtown brownstone, the assembled press of New York City was aflutter with excitement that the reports of a strange new world coming from the Pacific were being investigated by the legendary Renaissance Man. Inside the brownstone, on the other hand, Charles Chance, a name he had adopted long before the moniker of the Renaissance Man, was slumped against the heavy door that marked the demarcation point for that persona. Outside the brownstone, Char

By Gary Oswald. The Normans sail their army into England, as seen in the Bayeux Tapestry; picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. If there is one thing that has defined the geopolitical situation of the British Isles over the last 500 years, it is the fact that they have a moat. The nature of British warfare has been that it happens in other people’s lands because foreign armies do not get past the Royal Navy. The British have many times been defeated on the continent, by Nazi Ge