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From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns, and the award-winning story collection 20th Century Ghosts, comes this e-short story.
Saunders made his fortune as a hatchet man for hire and has come to England to do what he does best: chop down the little guys to clear the way for a global firm. But his train north just made an unexpected stop to let on some passengers straight out of the worst kind of fairy tale. Now he's
...14) Lightless
Prince Fulsa's light is fading.
Struck by a mysterious illness, Fulsa watches helplessly as the aura which marks him as a prince seeps slowly from his skin. His only comfort is his best friend, Phaios, a lightless slave who also represents everything Fulsa stands to lose.
When his illness takes a turn for the worse, Fulsa seizes on a last, desperate chance: a celestial chariot race with the power to restore his light—or swallow
...Tilda Harper, a freelance entertainment writer who specializes in tracking down the formerly famous, has a weekend gig moderating discussions at a Sherlock Holmes convention. She's hoping to pick up some new scoops, but gets more than she'd bargained for when an ex-TV star is murdered during a panel Tilda is in charge of. The police think it's...
Carson McCullers—novelist, dramatist, poet—was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short fiction. Here are nineteen stories that explore her signature themes: wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of life in the South. Here too are "The Member of the Wedding" and "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," novellas that Tennessee Williams judged to be "assuredly among the masterpieces of our language." (A Mariner Reissue)
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