Becca went back inside, drew the curtains, and approached the floor lamp. Palms sweating, she unscrewed the aluminum tube where the two sections connected in the center. Luke had rolled the score up and slid it into the lamp while the SPECTRA helicopter touched down. Becca had watched him do it.
But there was no paper visible in the dark tube. She turned it over and shook it at the floor, but nothing fell out. Becca dropped both ends of the lamp. The bulb shattered. The Invisible Symphony was gone.
Acknowledgments
My heartfelt thanks to the following people who helped make this a better book: Jen Salt, Chuck Killorin, Jill Sweeney-Bosa, Jeff Miller, Nick Nafpliotis, Meghan Chapman, Christopher C. Payne, and my editor, Vincenzo Bilof, who pushed me hard in the eleventh hour. Thanks also to Mike Davis and the Lovecraft eZine community for countless acts of kindness and support.
Photo by Jen Salt
DOUGLAS WYNNE is the author of the novels The Devil of Echo Lake, Steel Breeze, and Red Equinox. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and son and a houseful of animals just a stone’s throw from H.P. Lovecraft’s fictional town of Arkham. You can find him on the web at www.dougwynne.com
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