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Joanna Parypinski

Joanna Parypinski

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Joanna Parypinski is the author of the horror novel, PANDORA, as well as other short speculative fiction appearing in Arcane 2, Mistresses of the Macabre, First Time Dead 3, Cover of Darkness, and more.Her other pursuits involve playing the cello, blogging, and exploring her new home of Los Angeles, where she is working on her MFA in fiction writing.

Along The Watchtower

Along The Watchtower

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<p><strong><em>A tragic warrior lost in two worlds... Which one will he choose?</em></strong></p><p>The war in Iraq ended for Freddie when an IED explosion left his mind and body shattered. Once a skilled gamer as well as a capable soldier, he's now a broken warrior, emerging from a medically induced coma to discover he's inhabiting two separate realities.</p><p>The first is his waking world of pain, family trials, and remorse—and slow rehabilitation through the tender care of Becky, his physical therapist. The second is a dark fantasy realm of quests, demons, and magic, which Freddie enters when he sleeps. The lines soon blur for Freddie, not just caught between two worlds, but lost within himself.</p><p>Is he Lieutenant Freddie Williams, a leader of men, a proud officer in the US Army who has suffered such egregious injury and loss? Or is he Frederick, Prince of Stormwind, who must make sense of his horrific visions in order to save his embattled kingdom from the monstrous Horde, his only solace the beautiful gardener, Rebecca, whose gentle words calm the storms in his soul.</p><p>In the conscious world, the severely wounded vet faces a strangely similar and equally perilous mission to that of the prince—a journey along a dark road, haunted by demons of guilt and memory. Can he let patient, loving Becky into his damaged and shuttered heart? It may be his only way back from Hell.</p>

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“Where is the next Poppy Z. Brite? Where is the next American writer of coherent and lucid horror fiction that doesn’t blink and doesn’t let up, even when you sort of wish it would? Where is our next guide to the places that are horrible and wonderful and not for the faint of heart? We may well have found her in Joanna Parypinski. There seems to be no matter too dark, and no dungeon too deep for her discerning narrative eye to plumb. She resorts to no gimmicks, and she uses no tricks. She will capture your attention, and she will <em>earn</em> it. With <em>Pandora</em> she has made a grand entrance. And she is just getting started.”<br />—<a href="http://scottkenemore.wordpress.com/"><font color="#eb0005">Scott Kenemore</font></a>, bestselling author of <em>Zombie, Ohio </em>and <em>Zombie, Illinois </em>