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​     SHADES OF ANTHOLOGY BOOK 14
Pub date: February 14, 2026

NEW SHORT STORY!
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"A Storied Beginning and Ending and Beginning"


TEASER: When humans begin exchanging letters with alien pen pals, what happens when our darkest confessions are inked into the open? Could those admissions write humanity’s final chapter or its first in peace?

SUMMARY: An epistolary exchange between humans and their alien pen pals reveals the darkest truths of our nature—confessions that may write humanity’s final chapter in extinction… or its first in peace.

TAGLINE: Every letter uncovers the monster we’ve always been.
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© ​Karen Brailsford 2020-2026
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      • Knowing the Soul with Thomas Moore (dialogue)
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      • A Storied Beginning and Ending and Beginning
      • In the Eye of the Beholder
      • It's Time
      • It Takes All Kinds
      • All is Nothing
      • Ever After
      • Dinner Parties
      • Shades of Love
    • Essays >
      • Mommy, Still
      • Good Company
      • Feast
      • Floating Like Butterflies
    • Poems >
      • Initiation of the Disembodied
      • Covid: Covert No More
      • Harriet and Me
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      • Amandla Stenberg Channels The Force
      • Andrew Harvey On Becoming the Light During the Dark Night
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      • Don Miguel Ruiz Jr. On Befriending Fear
      • Anu Gupta On Breaking Bias
      • Marianne Williamson: Evolving Out of Darkness
      • Lee Harris: Channeling As a Transformational Tool
      • Deva Premal & Miten: How Mantras Heal
      • Sharon Salzberg Cultivates Loving-Kindness
      • Kate Bowler Shows Grace in Gravity
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