When dark fantasy and science fiction are accessories to noir, the punishment may be even weirder than the crime. Features four previously published tales of magical mafiosi and strange detective work.A mob enforcer turns the tables on his sorcerous bosses when they fail to realize "Kids Cost More".Set in the same world as "Kids Cost More", a thug has to collect on a blind man's loan... a blind man he owes far more than he realized.In the Writers of the Future reprint "Deadglass" a Cathar priest turns detective when he discovers the souls he's just sealed away in glass isn't as sinful as the church led him to believe."Legwork" may not be enough to close the case when a bounty hunter in near future Florida discovers his quarry may also be a serial killer.Lon Prater is a retired Navy officer by day, writer of odd little tales by night. His short fiction has appeared in the Stoker-winning anthology Borderlands 5, Writers of the Future XXI, and Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show.
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- Release Date 03/25/2010
- Author Lon Prater
- Language English
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