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Magic, mystery, and the macabre collide in Pick Your Potion, a mesmerising collection of genre-blending fantasy, science-fiction, and horror stories from award-winning Australian author Ephiny Gale. The 26 weird tales in Pick Your Potion are female-centric, mostly queer, and always intriguing. Within these pages, you'll find: A deadly and addictive magical board game. A time-loop demon apocalypse. A dimension-jumping cruise ship. A competition to win a magical orchard. A collection of murder victims' last texts. Heartwarming, heart-stopping, and heartbreaking in turn, Pick Your Potion offers a full apothecary of speculative stories to serve the curious reader.

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"""Ephiny Gale effortlessly crosses and combines genres in this collection. Each story is a new world to discover - some heartbreaking, some hopeful, and others both at the same time. There's something for everyone in these pages, so sip of the potion that most appeals to you, and let the magic of Ephiny Gale's words transform you."" - A.C. Wise, author of Wendy, Darling and Nebula & Stoker awards finalist ""Ephiny Gale's short fiction has an unsettling beauty, and, in this collection, warmth and closeness mingle with deep, dark, and decidedly uncanny undercurrents. Pick Your Potion is full of stories that will snag your mind and work their way underneath your skin, maybe even into your dreams."" - Maria Haskins, author of Six Dreams About the Train"

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Ephiny Gale was born in Victoria, Australia, and is still there, alongside her lovely wife and a small legion of bookcases. She is the author of more than 50 published short stories and novelettes, which have appeared in publications including PseudoPod, Constellary Tales, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Her stories have won the Best of the Net award for fiction and have been finalists for multiple Aurealis Awards. She has also written several produced stage plays and musicals, including the sold-out How to Direct from Inside at La Mama and Shining Armour at The 1812 Theatre. Her script Time Scraps was a finalist in St Martin's National Playwriting Competition, and Hearts up Sleeves won the Five Minute Play award at Dante's. When not writing, Ephiny currently works as a Senior Project Manager for a website development company. Her previous roles have included: Executive Assistant; coordinating a major arts festival; Association Secretary for the Green Room Awards (Melbourne's premier performing arts awards); nine months as a professional wedding DJ; and working as an executive of a university student association. Ephiny has a Masters in Arts Management, a red belt in taekwondo, and a passion for psychology, gaming, and storytelling in all its forms. She also especially enjoys Italian greyhounds, playing board games with friends, and eating raspberries in the sunshine.

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