“I just don’t think it’s right,” Sheldon Vale mumbles so softly that she barely catches the words over the radio and the storm and the whir of the tires on the road.
“Whole lot of crazy shit ain’t right,” she replies, then begins singing along with “Don’t You Want Somebody To Love?” while Sheldon drives the hearse, and Soldier tries hard not to think about whatever is or isn’t happening to Sparrow Spooner back in Providence.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Caitlín R. Kiernan has published six novels and more than sixty short stories and is a three-time winner of the International Horror Guild Award. Her short fiction has been collected in three volumes—Tales of Pain and Wonder, From Weird and Distant Shores, and To Charles Fort, With Love—and has been selected for The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Visit her Web site at www.caitlinrkiernan.com.
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