Gone Wishing: A Steel City Genie Novella
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Fishing. Sibling bonding. Hungry, deadly bridge trolls.
My half-brother Gideon and I just wanted a lazy evening fishing along the Allegheny river. Considering we work crappy jobs in the Fae slums of Pittsburgh, we needed the break.
Then the bridge trolls show up. They grab Gideon as the main course, and me as an appetizer.
Normally, the Fae cops charge in to save the day. But when you're a half-genie with scattered magic and criminal status just for existing, no Fae show up to help you. Even if Gideon is the world's cutest otter shifter.
So it's up to me, Allis Evanenko, to get us out of this mess—and rescue the humans captured by the trolls.
Well, this should be fun. At least Gideon has a cello.
Buy now and enjoy a short novella prequel to The Steel City Genie series. Features snark-with-heart, quirky world building, a bit of romance, and magic cellos.
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Gone Wishing - Janeen Ippolito
Gone Wishing
By Janeen Ippolito
Copyright © 2020 by Janeen Ippolito
www.janeenippolito.com
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Table of Contents
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Fishing in Pittsburgh is dangerous—but that’s what makes it fun.
I’m joking, of course. The Monongahela monsters haven’t gone after mortals in over four years. That’s a good record for the Monongys. And we were fishing in the Allegheny river anyway, which is a lot safer. The Allegheny has also been looking better than ever thanks to the deal the city government made with some naiads to clean it up. It helps to have a few officials who know about magicals. So when my otter-shifter half-brother wants to go fishing, I’m cool with that.
After all, we both work really hard at our house cleaning gigs, and our individual side hustles, just to pay the bills. We don’t have the money to spare for fancy extracurriculars. Especially if you factor in the automatic suspicion I get from Fae whenever I go into public, being a half-genie with a curse-mark across both my arms. Fishing is a great compromise—isolated and cheap.
But that night, it almost cost us our lives.
No. I’m not joking.
Part 1
Otters were unfairly adorable. Even when they were soaking you with water on a late April evening that felt more like January. On this Thursday, Pittsburgh hadn’t gotten the memo that spring had started—and somehow, Gideon was managing to splash me right through my puffy blue coat and tall boots. Even though I stood on the small cement dock, leaning on a railing, while he frolicked in the water below.
I ducked another wave of water, glaring at the otter as he turned into a slim man about four years younger than my own age of twenty-nine. Seriously? You know this isn’t fair.
He winked at me and shifted instantly into his otter form again. His voice came through clear as always, thanks to the magisphere conveying the sound to my ears. You could always splash back.
You’re already wet, you punk!
Gideon wrinkled up his nose. And it’s awesome!
Yeah, for you.
I rolled my eyes. My coat isn’t as great as your fur.
He made a little scraping sound, like a shrug. Come on, you can always snap in another one.
How many coats do you think I have?
One more.
I sighed. How do I know you won’t assault that one?
He shifted back to human, his sandy-brown face suddenly earnest. Because I won’t, Al. I promise.
Yeah?
My younger brother leveled a stare at me. Read me if you want.
Ah yes, one of the