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The Devil's Portion
When Oleksandr Chichenko is assigned to the far north in the search for a missing commissar, and to investigate the drop in production at a previously model Soviet he expects to meet resistance, perhaps even murder, but what he discovers is far, far worse.
As the layers of the mystery peel away like the skin of an onion Chichenko finds himself on dangerous ground in a place where the walls of reality are thin and an ancient dreamer has been awakened.
Cover by Adrian Baldwin.
As the layers of the mystery peel away like the skin of an onion Chichenko finds himself on dangerous ground in a place where the walls of reality are thin and an ancient dreamer has been awakened.
Cover by Adrian Baldwin.
58 pages, Paperback
Published March 14, 2020
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August 21, 2025
The Secrets Beneath the Snow...
THE DEVIL'S PORTION
(Short Sharp Shocks Book #12)
by Benedict J. Jones
4 stars. Looking through the train window, the view was a vast white nothingness of snowfall...
The secrets hidden beneath the snow will surface in the spring. Last spring, those secrets kept farmers from eating their own produce...
Commisar Chichenko had been sent to locate a junior commisar who vanished while investigating the little village of Lyudanev...
Chichenko suspects he's lying in an icy grave...
He and his three soldiers must find the missing man and restore Lyudanev's failing productivity to its normal output...
The train stopped at a place without a station at the edge of the forest. The village was two miles east through the woods...
The four men stepped off the train and walked the almost nonexistent trail toward Lyudanev...
Over a small rise was Lyudanev...
They met the village leader who said he knew nothing about the missing man...
Next morning...
The four men departed for the fishing camp on the coast...
Entering the camp...
They found the body of a woman lying in the doorway of a fishing hut...
Chichenko was told Volos, the local god, must receive his portion...
This was an excellent short story. I really wish it was a little longer, but very good nonetheless.
THE DEVIL'S PORTION
(Short Sharp Shocks Book #12)
by Benedict J. Jones
4 stars. Looking through the train window, the view was a vast white nothingness of snowfall...
The secrets hidden beneath the snow will surface in the spring. Last spring, those secrets kept farmers from eating their own produce...
Commisar Chichenko had been sent to locate a junior commisar who vanished while investigating the little village of Lyudanev...
Chichenko suspects he's lying in an icy grave...
He and his three soldiers must find the missing man and restore Lyudanev's failing productivity to its normal output...
The train stopped at a place without a station at the edge of the forest. The village was two miles east through the woods...
The four men stepped off the train and walked the almost nonexistent trail toward Lyudanev...
Over a small rise was Lyudanev...
They met the village leader who said he knew nothing about the missing man...
Next morning...
The four men departed for the fishing camp on the coast...
Entering the camp...
They found the body of a woman lying in the doorway of a fishing hut...
Chichenko was told Volos, the local god, must receive his portion...
This was an excellent short story. I really wish it was a little longer, but very good nonetheless.
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