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"She saw in their eyes a reflection of herself: dressed head to foot in black, cloaked, hooded, a crow on her shoulder. And all the other crows that had followed her arrayed behind her: in the trees, on the ground, perched on rocks. As one, they regarded the fairies with unblinking black eyes."
Everyone in this collection has lost a part of themselves - a memory, an aspect of identity, the ability to fall in love. They hunt for themselves in forests or deserts or the empty walls of a church, asking questions no one can answer. Nothing is ever as it seems and reality bends away from the truth so that when they do find it, the truth is as unexpected as a dragon on the moon.
This is Susannah J. Bell's second collection of short stories. In the first collection, the stories were connected by a single universe and mysterious appearances of the White Shadows. In this collection, the stories are more diverse, experiments in style and place and genre that take the reader into unseen realms.
A Nightmarist seeks answers beyond the safety of the Vast Wooded Realm, until Night finds her and tells her who she was born to be.
A scatter-brained serial killer hunts the forests for someone who may have all the answers, but all she really wants is to see a grizzly bear.
A war veteran soldier with misdiagnosed PTSD hallucinates the horror of the White Shadow war.
A small girl in a crushed hat picks up tiny red shells on a beach, houses of the dead that reveal the truth of existence.
Two lovers meet again and again in familiar fairy tales, both trapped by an unbreakable spell.
Previously published by Susannah J. Bell:
SHATTERED: A Neanderthal man sees a space station streak across the sky. On the observation platform, a queen arrives to take a "holiday" on the forbidden planet. Conspiracist Ziann Mara hopes she will never leave.
THE EXODUS SEQUENCE: A Collection of Connected Short Stories.
THE FLEET QUINTET
TRANSFERENCE: A mindwalker is in hiding on the edge of the Sigma Sector, where the Fleet are still a rumour.
FLESH FOR SALE: The Fleet are moving in to the Sigma Sector and people are beginning to disappear.
V. GOMENZI: The Fleet must be stopped before everyone in the Sigma Sector disappears forever.
COMMENCES: Billions of years ago, before the artificial universe, there was the Fleet.
A DOORWAY INTO ULTRA: When a missing child is returned without her memory, only her abductor knows who she is - and who she isn't.
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