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A Little Hospitality

  Kevin L. O'Brien

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  Text Copyright 2013 by Kevin L. O'Brien

  Cover design and typography copyright 2013 by Kevin L. O'Brien

  Adventure font distributed under a free use license by Neale Davidson and Pixel Sagas

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  License Notes

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  If you see any misspellings or typographical errors, please notify Kevin L. O'Brien using one of his online social networks. Thank you.

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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents, including those based on the real world, are either products of the imagination of Kevin L. O'Brien or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Because some ebook platforms do not support special characters, certain words may appear misspelled, but this was done deliberately to avoid the problem of the platforms deleting the characters. Also, the LRF platform used by older models of the Sony Reader does not permit the use of links to external URLs, whereas the PDB platform used by Palm reading devices does not support any form of linking whatsoever. Finally, certain words use British instead of American spelling, to simulate the characters' English accents.

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  Table of Contents

  Preface

  A Little Hospitality

  Bonus Story: Genderbent

  About the Author

  Other Books by Kevin L. O'Brien

  Connect with Kevin L. O'Brien

  Sample Excerpts

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  Preface

  In addition to her adventures as Director of the Caerleon Order, each night Sir Differel Van Helsing sojourns to the Land of the Dreams of Men. She first discovered the Dreamlands when she crossed over physically through a transient gate. Eile and Sunny of Team Girl found her and protected her until they could get her back to the Waking World. Later she returned in the normal fashion to stop a Fomorian plot to rule the Waking World through people's dreams. During that second trip she met her former husband, Victor Plunkett, who in life had been a Dreamer and who "retired" to the Dreamlands after he had been killed. They remarried, and after she returned to the Waking World Medb hErenn gave her a "magical" device that would allow her to re-enter the Dreamlands whenever she liked. After a few nights she no longer needed it, and she has been making her daily sojourn ever since.

  She was effectively a novice for her first couple of weeks, and Team Girl mentored her (with Victor's help) just as Medb had mentored them when they first arrived. However, unlike most new Dreamers, she was better equipped to handle dangerous situations, and early on she took trips on her own to more quickly familiarize herself with the lay of the Land. This story describes one of those solo adventures. It is also the beginning of a series of related stories, and it introduces a character who will appear in later stories.

  The Bonus Story, "Genderbent", marks the second return of the Princess in Orange. It is a humorous vignette that shows both the extent to which she treats Differel like a plaything, and the degree to which she will try to humiliate her.

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