title: The Thin Places: Supernatural Tales of the Unseen
author:  Laura K Cowan 
description: Laura K. Cowan, The Dreaming Novelist, writes imaginative novels that explore the possibilities of the human condition through the connections between the spiritual and natural worlds. Ms. Cowan's work has been compared to that of acclaimed fantasy and sci-fi authors Ursula K. Le Guin and Ray Bradbury, but her stark and lovely stories retain a distinctly spiritual flavor. Her novels The Little Seer and Music of Sacred Lakes were hailed by readers and reviewers as "moving," "lyrical," and "wonderful."
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  **Rival Demons**
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
  by
  
  Sarra Cannon
  
    
  
  Published by Dead River Books
  
    
  
    
  
  **To Kris**
  
   **For all the bedtime stories**
  
   **told to your little sister in the dark.**
  
   **You taught me how to imagine.**
  
    
  
    
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
  either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is
  entirely coincidental.
  
    
  
  Copyright 2012 by Sarra Cannon Bittmann
  
    
  
  All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions
  thereof in any form whatsoever.
  
    
  
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