The Shadow, the Siren, and the Sage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shadow, the Siren, and the Sage write by Wayne Kyle Spitzer. This book was released on 2018-02-04. The Shadow, the Siren, and the Sage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A series of enormous explosions rocked the grounds and Jeremiah hit the deck, pieces of glass and other debris raining down upon him, pattering his shoulders. Thump! Ka-thump! Thump! Now it is too late to turn back, he thought to himself, and wondered if Satyena, wherever she was, were laboring under the same yoke: the yoke of wanting to destroy a thing while at the same time yearning (paradoxically) for its embrace. Then he was up and running, running for the base of the cliff, wanting to look back and yet too terrified to do so, a Bible quote from one of Kill-sin’s sermons echoing in his ear: But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
The Shadow, the Siren, and the Sage
The Shadow, the Siren, and the Sage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shadow, the Siren, and the Sage write by Wayne Kyle Spitzer. This book was released on 2018-02-04. The Shadow, the Siren, and the Sage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It was a night for dreaming and for murder too, a night that would live in infamy or be celebrated for a thousand years, a night which lay over the Witch Doctor's complex like a crisp, black linen. It was also a night for destruction, and for the holding down of triggers, for the flames to flow like water over everything he had ever known and the past to blacken and curl upon itself like so much burning paper. It was, in short, a night for monumental change--and for everything to stay the same--depending on the actions (and the fortune) of a few; a night in which the fates of many would hang in the balance, while the fates of five would be sealed--Chairman Kill-sin and Sister Samain, Jasper, Jeremiah, Satyena--a night that would decide everything from whether the Witch Doctors or the witches (but preferably neither) would at last be dominant to whether there would even be another generation to tell the tale.
The Magnificent Bastards
The Magnificent Bastards - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Magnificent Bastards write by Wayne Kyle Spitzer. This book was released on 2018-11-29. The Magnificent Bastards available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There was a single, sharp tap of the drums followed by a rapid succession of beats as the crushed velvet curtains spread and the audience gasped: for Tran had taken her position in the box and was even now being secured as Williams struck a gunfighter pose and his hand hovered next to his weapon. “Ladies and gentlemen, I think it goes without saying,” said the announcer over the speaker system, “Do not try this at home.” Williams relaxed his entire body even as his mind cycled through the calculations—altitude, the breeze, humidity, temperature, the curvature of the earth, the spinning of the earth … It was, like music, a largely mathematical proposition; a cold equation he’d had a gift for ever since he could remember, ever since he was a boy with a Daisy BB gun in the backyard of their southern California home. He focused on the knife blade as the balloons to each side of it warbled in the breeze. It was a funny thing, sharpshooting, so utterly unlike music, in that each time he did it he felt like he was doing it for the first time, felt like he was starting over from scratch. With music his fingers just automatically found the frets, just instantly knew where to begin and where to end; he never felt as though he were lost in a vortex of potentialities, never doubted his ability to perform. But sharpshooting was a different beast altogether. With sharpshooting he had to call on something outside of himself as well as from within—something which was not his to control. Something which either kissed him with its ghostly lips or turned away with perfect indifference—like love itself, he supposed. Or God. And then the drum taps stopped and he was alone with the breeze, and it was time to make the intuitive leap which would set the bullet in motion. And as he breathed out and drew his revolver and squeezed its trigger softer than he would a daisy, he knew, even before the crack! and the ka-chink! and the pop of the balloons, that the projectile had found its target. That it had found the slim blade and split like an atom—becoming two loaves rather than one—two soft but lethal slugs, which had spread like shrapnel in the Fresno heat and ruptured the red balloons—releasing their air in a vacuum-like rush and causing the audience to gasp and to cheer. And then his wife was there, having loosed her mock bonds and scrambled out of the tall wooden box (with its crushed velvet curtains and bulletproof glass), and she’d bowed to the audience before embracing him like the wind, and he had kissed her as he always did after completing their final act—when air raid sirens sounded and he looked at the sky, which had darkened with a storm front as fast-moving as it was inexplicable ...
The End
The End - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End write by Wayne Kyle Spitzer. This book was released on 2020-03-29. The End available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Apocalypse. The End Times. Armageddon. Whether it's from a virus or a meteor, the end is always coming. How will you deal with it?
The Dagger and the Chalise
The Dagger and the Chalise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dagger and the Chalise write by Wayne Kyle Spitzer. This book was released on 2018-01-18. The Dagger and the Chalise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. He went into the kitchen and poured her a glass of water. “How long has it been since you’ve eaten?” “I’m not hungry,” she said. She seated herself slowly, tentatively. “Two, maybe three days. Ever since Sister Samain wrested control of the coven from the Council. Thank you …” She took the glass from Jeremiah, still looking at the paintings. “They’re all done by the same hand, aren’t they?” He took off his wide-brimmed hat and studied them. “The same eye. Sometimes Jasper’s hand shakes uncontrollably and I have to steady it with my own. Other times I am his hand, and he tells me what to do.” He laughed a little. “He says that I am an artist, just as he. But even I know it’s the eye that sees, not the hands.” She continued staring at them. “No, I don’t think that’s true. These pictures have lines of grace … look, see how the fingers are elongated, and tend to curve up or down depending on the position of the body. They dance upon the canvas … surely you can see that. I think you paint them together, Jeremiah.” He swung the strap of the respirator over his head and set it on a mantle. “I’m just his hands.” He moved to leave the room again. “Just? But hands are for feeling,” she said. He paused at the entrance to the hall. “And they’re for killing, too.” Then he disappeared into the dark. And she thought, It’s the heart that kills, Jeremiah. The hard one by slaying others … and the soft by slaying itself. Then she pushed it from her mind.
