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Curious Toys

Elizabeth Hand

"There he was again, smoking a cigar in front of the Infant Incubators."


A Lush and Seething Hell

John Hornor Jacobs

"In Springfield, they check into their hotel, an aging Holiday Inn off the interstate."


How Beautiful They Were

Boston Teran

"Who am I? It is a question Nathaniel the actor asked himself with every new character he was to play."


Masses and Motets

Jeffrey DeShell

"Maybe this sparseness wasn’t unusual, maybe they all lived like this, with few personal possessions, with nothing to tie them down to the secular world."


The Devil’s Due

Bonnie MacBird

"The long thin wedge. I had heard Mycroft speak of it before. It was a metaphor, I suppose, for whatever he did at Whitehall."


The Fragility of Bodies

Sergio Olguín

"She didn’t like umbrellas, so Verónica went out into the rain in a black raincoat, a waterproof version of  the coat she usually wore on these cold days at the end of autumn."


The Poison Garden

A.J. Banner

"Out in the driveway, I scrolled through the contacts on my cell phone until I reached the listing for my business attorney, Gabe Harvell."


The Dollmaker

Nina Allan

"After crossing the Albert Bridge, the train seemed to enter not just another county but another world."


A Shadow Falls

Andreas Pflüger

"When greeting people she hasn’t met before, Aaron immediately sorts them into a category."


The Measure of a Man

Marco Malvaldi

"The sun had not yet risen beyond the castle walls when the body was discovered."



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