Girl Meets Mind Reader

By Robert Jeschonek

Falling in love can be impossible for a mind reader like Virgil. Whenever he meets someone, he sees her deepest flaws and darkest secrets right away. But when beautiful Bridget swoops into his life, he can't read a thought in her head. Bridget's a closed book to him, so of course he falls hard for her—even as he realizes he might not be able to read her mind, but he can see the world through her eyes. And the world she shows him is full of things that shouldn't be there: mermaids, elfin knights...and bloodthirsty monsters. Now that Virgil can see them, too, will he save Bridget or be destroyed in the process? If the world is as strange and terrifying as it seems through her eyes, does their love stand a chance? Or will the dark visions that surround them take away their only chance at happiness? Don't miss this edgy, exciting, and surprising fantasy tale by award-winning storyteller Robert T. Jeschonek, a master of unique and unexpected fantasy that really packs a punch.

Reviews

"Robert Jeschonek is the literary love child of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman—his fiction is cutting edge, original, and pulsing with dark and fantastical life. His stories suck me in and refuse to let me go until the last page..." – Adrian Phoenix, critically acclaimed author of The Maker's Song series and Black Dust Mambo

"Jeschonek ́s stories are delightfully insane, a pleasure to read..." – Fabio Fernandes, Fantasy Book Critic

"...Robert Jeschonek is a towering talent..." – Mike Resnick, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author

Contents

Story plus novel preview

About the Author

Robert T. Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, comics, essays, articles, and podcasts have been published around the world. DC Comics, Simon & Schuster, and DAW have published his work. Robert was nominated for the British Fantasy Award for his story, "Fear of Rain." His young adult urban fantasy novel, My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, is now available from Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and received a starred review from Booklist.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Jeschonek
• Release date: Oct 7, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465994875

Book preview

Girl Meets Mind Reader

GIRL MEETS MIND READER

A Fantasy Tale

ROBERT JESCHONEK

Pie Press

CONTENTS

Also by Robert Jeschonek

Girl Meets Mind Reader

About the Author

Special Preview: Heaven Bent

GIRL MEETS MIND READER

Copyright © 2023 by Robert Jeschonek

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Cover Art Copyright © 2023 by Ben Baldwin

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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GIRL MEETS MIND READER

Virgil Flint was surprised when the black-haired woman asked him to fly her kite while she went to use the porta-john.

Virgil was just standing there on the beach, watching the flock of kites as they wandered and dove in the blue Oregon sky, when the woman waltzed up and pushed a spool of kite string at him.

I'd really appreciate it, she said, grinning.  She wore sunglasses with round, mirrored lenses, so he couldn't see her eyes.  Her dark hair was long and braided in pigtails. His first impression of her age was mid-30s to early 40s.

Immediately, he liked her round, expressive face.  Though she wore a baggy windbreaker and bluejeans, he could see enough of her body to know that he liked that, too.

Then, he read her mind.

He didn't dig deep, because he didn't see the need at that moment.  Reaching out from his own mind, he touched the surface of hers, dipping just far