Frugal Wizard | Chapter One I came alert, fists raised, an electric jolt of adrenaline surging through me. I spun, light on my feet, looking for someone to punch, sweat streaming down the sides of my face. I was in a field. A sunny field, with a forest nearby. What the hell? What the ever-loving hell? Heart…

Frugal Wizard | Chapter Two Part of me wanted to stalk out and demand answers. Play the role of irate customer, make them break character. Yet . . . Something about all this . . . A part of me was convinced that they weren’t actors. That—insanely—this was all authentic, and I should stay hidden. Damn. That sounded ridiculous, didn’t it? Nevertheless, my…

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Frugal Wizard | Chapter Three Yes, I owned it. I owned England. I owned this planet. I owned this entire universe. On paper, at least. I wasn’t sure about all the specifics—my memory was still performing at a decided zero-out-of-five-stars level. But I knew people could buy dimensions. Well, technically, you bought exclusive access—managed by an unbreakable quantum…

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Frugal Wizard | Chapter Four When I woke up, the young woman and man were standing on the ceiling. Or . . . wait, I was upside down. Yeah, that made more sense. My head had a faint pulsing at the base of my skull— without my nanites, there would have been some serious throbbing from that plank-to-face…

Frugal Wizard | Chapter Five “You . . . do?” I said. “This is a good village,” she said, “with a strong and diligent thegn. Yet, they don’t have much. Why upon the lands would you pick here to run your scam?” Scam? “Oil with a stencil to create the burned-out figure,” she continued, “which I’ll admit is ingenious. Scattered…

Frugal Wizard | Chapter Six It was strange to feel a sudden sense of loss and pain for a person whose face I couldn’t remember. But it was there, a knot—no, a suddenly audible scream—inside of me. The pain felt fresh and raw, like a bruise before it went blue. I’d lost Jen. Somehow, I’d lost her. I…