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The table of contents previews multiple tales, each centered on strange creatures, dangerous encounters, and the tension between bravery and survival. One chapter opens with Blades de Reap attempting to protect an ultra-famous honey-sweetened ale recipe, while a slippery hunt and a narrow walkway set up imminent, gruesome consequences below. Across the collection, secrets and magic-like hints drive the pace.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThey Fight Monsters  \nA FANTASY STORY COLLECTION  \nJONATHAN EVAN HUDSON  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © 2026 by Jonathan Evan Hudson All rights reserved.  \nNo part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.  \n Formatted with Vellum  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nHoney-Sweet Dead Drop  \nDragon In Distress  \nAll Powerful Manticore Lords  \nAs You Wish  \nA Monster Hunter Walks Into A Bar  \nShroom Siren  \nA Storm Of FistsAnd Wits  \nFestival Of Flesh And Fire  \nLuv Bites & So Do I  \nMan In The Dragon Scale Cowl  \nA Second Chance For Passion And Despair  \nAbout the Author  \nAlso by Jonathan Evan Hudson  \nA Taste Of Crossing Of Shadowed Death  \nWant More?  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nHoney-Sweet Dead Drop  \nDragon In Distress  \nAll Powerful Manticore Lords  \nAs You Wish  \nA Monster Hunter Walks Into A Bar  \nShroom Siren  \nA Storm Of FistsAnd Wits  \nFestival Of Flesh And Fire  \nLuv Bites & So Do I  \nMan In The Dragon Scale Cowl  \nA Second Chance For Passion And Despair  \nAbout the Author  \nAlso by Jonathan Evan Hudson  \nA Taste Of Crossing Of Shadowed Death  \nWant More?  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nChapter  \nOne  \nO f all the things to die for   country, family, even duty   protecting  \nthe ultra-secret recipe of the most ultra-famous honey-sweetened alein all of Trifacto   a summertime ale known as Frostkissed Love for its tender cool touch and yet delicious honey-sweet taste …not so bad, not so bad at all.  \nBut only if Blades de Reap made the other guys die hard for stealing it instead.  \nKinda hard while hanging off the narrow walkway of wobbly rickety oak planks. The planks were too smooth by far. So smooth it was actually sortof slippery.  \nNo where for his fingers to cling to—except the raised engraving at the very edge.  \nAn engraving of several thickly coiled and braided snakes right along the edge. A last hope of sorts. His fingers dug into it for dear, dear life. The individual scales carved into the snakes dug back just as hard into his fingers. Dug in as hard as memories best forgotten.  \nBut fall and his fate was all too clear.  \nThe scolding pale-amber steam from below now hid most the chains that this walkway hung straight down from. Why the chain’s steel link were  \nfashioned like snakes eating their own tail … must be something behind that choice, but what?  \nNot important now.  \nThe loud bubbling a dozen paces below warned of the awful death waiting for him if he fell. Along with that intense fragrance of honey andale. So concentrated, so intense each breath was dizzying, even from all the way up here.  \nBut falling into any of those gigantic black-iron cauldrons full of boiling dark amber liquid …not a good death. Not at all.  \nEspecially from the sound of the scream of the last bad guy that fell into the one below Blades. A few minutes ago. And left Blades hanging for dear, dear life.  \nNo sign of that tender cold touch of the ale either. Not yet. Not anywhere.  \nAnd that was the big secret. How to make the ale so that it would give that famous tender cool kiss no matter how hot it was outside. As long as it was freshly poured from its oak keg …  \nThat this huge round underground room was a part of that remarkable tavern above ground, the Frostkissed Fun Joint, the one and only location in all of Trifacto that served Frostkissed Love fresh, and not out of a keg …  \nAbove ground the tavern looked more like a gigantic redwood. Its insides hollowed out except for various ramps and floors along the whole height of the tree tavern. Even the smell of the tree remained. A nice pine smell. Supposedly the tree still lived. Still grew. 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