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Hunger and Thirst
Hunger and Thirst is a short novel of predatory love and its dangerous dance with survival. This is love with teeth.
In a post-apocalyptic America, in a remote desert, two forces of human nature, the predatory and the humane, face each other, in need and in love--Natalie, the queen predator in her valley of the shadow of death, and Jack, who's walking to California with his stray cat, Artie.
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She circled the room and blew out the candles. She took his hand when she came back to him and led him down the short hall to her darker bedroom. Moonlight from the windows showed a neat, stark room with only a white sheet covering the bed.
"I'm so glad you're finally here, Jack. I've been waiting for you a long time."
Kneeling on the bed, facing each other, she pulled his shirt open, popping off the buttons. In the moonlight-marked room, buttons clicked on the floor and rolled away. Jack caught his breath.
No vampires, aliens, or zombies. Caution for incidents of non-standard violence. (25,000 words)
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Previously released as Life on the Earth, this edition includes two stories from the series Matter Is Mostly Space, "Acrolithia" (from Mutants) and "Those To Be Destroyed Are First Shown Love." (from The Arrival of the Overlords).
In a post-apocalyptic America, in a remote desert, two forces of human nature, the predatory and the humane, face each other, in need and in love--Natalie, the queen predator in her valley of the shadow of death, and Jack, who's walking to California with his stray cat, Artie.
From the book:
She circled the room and blew out the candles. She took his hand when she came back to him and led him down the short hall to her darker bedroom. Moonlight from the windows showed a neat, stark room with only a white sheet covering the bed.
"I'm so glad you're finally here, Jack. I've been waiting for you a long time."
Kneeling on the bed, facing each other, she pulled his shirt open, popping off the buttons. In the moonlight-marked room, buttons clicked on the floor and rolled away. Jack caught his breath.
No vampires, aliens, or zombies. Caution for incidents of non-standard violence. (25,000 words)
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Previously released as Life on the Earth, this edition includes two stories from the series Matter Is Mostly Space, "Acrolithia" (from Mutants) and "Those To Be Destroyed Are First Shown Love." (from The Arrival of the Overlords).
- GenresHorror
98 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 14, 2011
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September 12, 2013
From the author of The Selection Event (a *very* good read in the speculative fiction genre) this collection of short stories is suspenseful, entertaining and thoughtful. The first story, after which the book is named, is the suspenseful one. It may have lacked a "big payoff", but, in the reader's opinion, the story in its entirety is the payoff. The entire way through you are of the feeling that something is lurking, prowling or impending. Some readers may feel teased throughout the story then never given what the imagined they would receive. I felt Mr. Wightman did an excellent job dangling me at the end of a rope, managing to keep me nervous to jumpy and intensely interested the entire way.
Many writers lul you along, some to the point of dozing, while they slowly build to their one well crafted scene at the end. Few can sustain an edge that keeps you expecting the worst at the next turn (albeit in a short story).
The two other accompanying pieces were not at the same level as the first but were entertaining and thoughtful nonetheless. Both quite enjoyable.
Many writers lul you along, some to the point of dozing, while they slowly build to their one well crafted scene at the end. Few can sustain an edge that keeps you expecting the worst at the next turn (albeit in a short story).
The two other accompanying pieces were not at the same level as the first but were entertaining and thoughtful nonetheless. Both quite enjoyable.
April 12, 2013
predictable, but relatively good nonetheless.
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