Gloria Piper-Manjarrez has always been a storyteller, even when she was earning masters degrees in biology and art, gaining a black belt in Judo, teaching, directing a Christian ministry and raising mosquitoes for Uncle Sam. Read excerpts from her SF and Fantasy novels, TRAIN TO NOWHERE in which orphans are kept captive on a train, FINNEGAN’S QUEST, about a red fox in search of a guru, and THE EMPEROR’S HOSTAGES, about a shape-shifter with flawed magic.