| EXTRACTS... From The Volunteer and The Dark Within... |
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| From The Wedding Job, a short story featured in the Dark Within collection: "I pulled up on the side of the road. I did not know what to make of Lilly's story; a lot of what she said was still sinking in. I suppose I did not want to think much about it at all, just wanted the whole ordeal over with. I turned off the engine. 'Mind if I get a cigarette?' I asked. 'It is not as though I am going to run off.' We were probably five miles from the nearest civilisation. 'Do what you want,' she said. I got out the car and walked over to the bushes next to the barrier at the side of the hard shoulder. I lit a cigarette and inhaled deeply. I blew smoke, wondering what the hell I was going to do now. Lilly Smalley looked quite sane, but she talked nonesense. She ranted on about demons and magic. I surmised that she was crazy, had blotted out some of the events of that morning. Was she a murderer, though? Or had she witnessed a murder - her parents' murder? Suddenly, I heard a muffled thud and turned to the rolls to see the windows splashed with blood... The Dark Within - Four stories... �2.00 from D-Press |
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| From The Volunteer novella... "'Look, Gavin, I can guarantee you, the stuff you have taken will not harm you. Hell, we get this kind of stuff at least once a month and it's always a waste of time doing these experiments. Got to try it though. Daft superstitions filter into the minds of the most gifted of people sometimes. That's why this division was set up.' Gavin stared at the other man. 'What division?' he asked. 'What superstitions? Is this blood.... cursed, or something?' The other man shrugged. 'That's what we are here to find out. Look, relax, will you?' Gavin appeared not to hear him. 'So you decided to test it out on some homeless guy, some member of society who doesn't matter?' 'You volunteered.' 'This sucks.' Bill laughed. He folded him arms... 'You want to know what the blood I gave you was?' Gavin nodded. 'Vampire's blood...'" The Volunteer was �2.50 - now 1.50 from above link via PayPal. Postage free. |