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Excerpt

It was summer under the eaves of the sky and the city echoed with heat. Sadie ran, on the curved shell of dusk’s descent, through a downtown of worn concrete and brick.

The city owned many architectures, deep and thick with the dreams, spoils, battles, victories, and longings of its inhabitants, whose lives stained its walls as a smoke accreted as the rooms, ells, and stories of its many buildings accreted, souls coloring an alley or a forgotten room here and there in luminous shades, while everywhere else was gray and aged.

“Where are you running, Sadie?” “Why are you running, Sadie?”

The questions hissed and echoed up from grates, around corners, out of the air, in voices sly and insistent and gentle.

Sadie had seen a thing, a crack in the bone and breath of the world, and it had seen her.

Bio

Jessica Reisman's stories have appeared in an array of magazines and anthologies. Five Star Speculative Fiction published her first novel, The Z Radiant. She dreams awake, has visions asleep, and enjoys tea and artful cocktails while living in Austin, Texas, with well-groomed cats. For more about her fiction, visit www.storyrain.com.

Publications

The Z Radiant, a novel. Stories have appeared in Interzone, SciFiction, Crossed Genres, The Red Penny Papers, and Postscripts. Stories are forthcoming in Phantom Drift and Circus: Fantasy Under the Big Top.

Writing Description

"Delicate and lyrical, Jessica Reisman's words resonate with a power that is deceptively simple. Her vivid stories flow off the page and often stay with me for days, certain phrases or scenes replaying in my head. Very intelligent, Reisman's tales will always leave you thinking, and wanting more."
--Reviewer Rick Klaw

Writing Goals

My goal for the Write-a-thon is to produce two finished short stories and a couple of flash pieces while I'm also engaged in novel revisions. I'm not a fast writer and have a dayjob, so this is a challenge.

Website

www.storyrain.com

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