Box

by Daniel G. Keohane

Out of Print. This was a promo ebook.

She awoke in darkness. Whether it was morning or evening didn’t matter. Such concepts were lost to Xing-chi. Even her name, which had meant something to her father and mother, no longer had significance. She was she, with occasional labels and epithets spat by the men who came to her in moments uncountable. No light meant only that no one was coming to pull her small, cramped body from its home. And this was her home, an acceptance which had long ago crossed the threshold of her mind. Any hope of the world turning back to its proper shape had long fallen away, crushed under her sparse weight inside the box. From the author of Margaret's Ark and Solomon's Grave, the story of a childhood lost and the eternal hope of the promise given to everyone, no matter where they are.

15 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 16, 2013

About the author

Daniel G. Keohane's first novel, Solomon's Grave (2009), was a finalist for the international Bram Stoker Award. Since then he has released the critically-acclaimed Margaret's Ark (2011) and Plague of Darkness, (2014), Plague of Locusts (2022) and the upcoming Stories from the Psalms, Volume 1 (2023). Under the pseudonym G. Daniel Gunn he has published Destroyer of Worlds (2012) and Nightmare in Greasepaint (written with L.L.Soares). His short stories have been published in a number of major horror magazines and anthologies over the years, including , Cemetery Dance, Apex Digest, Shroud Magazine, Borderlands 6, Fantastic Stories and many others, and have received multiple Honorable Mentions in the annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror / Best Horror of the Year.