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Book Description
Core Truths is Lisa Fox's debut collection of 18 speculative short stories that explore the
quintessential values driving our thoughts, beliefs, and actions. Each tale culminates in a character's
pivotal moment, the one that changes them forever. Sometimes their journey leads toward a rare
epiphany or a beautiful resolution. But not every ending is happy.
This assortment of science fiction, fantasy, and horror features robots and androids, biologists and
metallurgists. Witches, vampires, sea elves and other mythical creatures traverse these pages along
with ordinary humans living under extraordinary circumstances.
All the characters in this collection confront hard truths. When a father and son encounter someone
forbidden to exist, they must decide whether extending a kindness is worth risking their lives. Hand-
picked by her deceased father to undertake an impossible mission, a young girl realizes that
sometimes to be a hero, one needs to be a villain. A scientist from a dying planet is forced to weigh
the value of one individual life against the lives of many; a scientist from Philadelphia finds his sanity
challenged upon making a remarkable discovery. An ancient being questions the validity of doctrine.
A clone questions what it means to be human.
As speculative literary fiction, these narratives glean their energy from the fantastical. Written to
shine a light on the world, each story in this anthology is intended to make us think about who we
are as people, about those Core Truths that govern the lives we choose to live.
Extract
Excerpt from “The Healing Power of Witchcraft”
A key theme across all the stories in the “Core Truths” collection is the exploration of the
self—identifying who or what you are, regardless of how you feel about the truth presented
to you. The main character in this piece questions her family’s history as healers, and
whether the special powers passed down from her mother represent something even
more… magical.
“My Mary is a sensitive yet strong woman, Mrs. Winters,” Dr. Burroughs said. “But
sometimes even the strongest bridges cannot bear the weight of those who trudge across them.”
I nodded, swallowing hard past the tragedies lodged within my throat. Like Mrs.
Burroughs, I, too, felt that pain of loss; each defiant tear, each constricted breath an endless
reminder.
I thought again of my mother, how they’d kept her imprisoned for a fortnight, the
companion of thieves and murderers and rats. How the gossips raised their torches and their
pitchforks; clucking to each other conspiracies of dark magic, as if they expected the devil
himself to burst from the lungs of those held captive with each screeching cry.
Only when my mother’s voice was silenced did her captors toss her from that prison onto
the street. They had taken her tongue. She was beyond healing, caked in filth and misery, as I
held her hand. Mother’s depleted spirit had whispered as much when it called out my name,
Abigail, and I moved her from the gutter to the sidewalk so she could take her final rest under a
blanket of moonlight. The mob of Accusers watched with smug indifference; they smirked at my
tears and grinned with yellowing teeth at Mother’s lifeless body. Yet, I saw how their gazes froze
upon my glare, their eyes glazed over like ice in a blizzard. I heard the hardening of their hearts,
how those hearts had stopped beating for that moment when my desire to harm them burned
hotter than any calling to heal. And as that moment passed, I saw the question of who I was
curled over lips that twisted into scowls, their hatred for me palpable as the cobblestones upon
which my mother lay. I knew I was alone, yet I would never be left alone—they’d whisper and watch and wait
for a time when they could, with certainty, call me ‘witch’ as they had with my mother. As they
did the day Dr. Burroughs brought me to his home.
“I understand.” The curtain slipped from my fingers, and I watched the lace swing,
pendulum-like, until it stopped. I hoped I could help Mary Burroughs.
I hoped I could help myself.
Author Bio
Lisa Fox is a pharmaceutical market researcher by day and fiction writer by night. She
thrives in the chaos of suburbia, residing in New Jersey (USA) with her husband, two sons, and
Double-Doodle puppy. Her work has been featured in Dark Matter, Bards and Sages Quarterly,
Metaphorosis, New Myths, Brilliant Flash Fiction, and Luna Station Quarterly, among other journals
and anthologies. Lisa has had work nominated for the Pushcart Prize and for Best Small Fictions and
is a previous winner of the NYC Midnight Short Screenplay competition. You can find Lisa and her
published work via her website: lisafoxiswriting.com or on Twitter @iamlisafox10800.
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