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The Man Who Loved Birds

by Mar Preston

Harold Shorsey awoke that morning certain that a freight train had collided with the front of the house. The bucking and shuddering of the daybed in his study bounced him up in the air and then onto the floor. From an epicenter fifteen miles away, a previously unknown fault fishtailed upward, emerging to grind into […]

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The Mermaid’s Melody

by Tom Piccirilli

A few hours ago I finished off the second draft of my next novel and sent it to my new editor at Bantam/Random House. My previous editor, whom I’d worked together with on eight books, recently left to pursue her dream of becoming a freelance editor scratching out a living. My wise counsel and admonitions fell […]