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    Where the Cloud Meets the Mountain and the Mountain Disappears
    Where the Cloud Meets the Mountain and the Mountain Disappears
    Where the Cloud Meets the Mountain and the Mountain Disappears
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    Where the Cloud Meets the Mountain and the Mountain Disappears

    By James Comins

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    A free collection of contemporary and sf/fantasy short stories from author James Comins. In "The Soft Operative," a corporate saboteur kidnaps a genetically modified employee. In "Four Seasons of a Man," a Vietnam war vet's life is seen in four vignettes. In "Matt and Maggie," a punk couple live through a suicide attempt. Twenty stories and poems and poem-story-things.

    1. The Soft Operative
    A corporate saboteur kidnaps a genetically modified employee.
    2. The Silent Pasture
    Beauty and the beast sit in the garden of Eden.
    3. Maxwell's Demon
    Flash fiction for a New Scientist writing contest.
    4. Red Sox Yankees
    A city erupts in a riot.
    5. The Old Open Door
    A poem based on "St. James Infirmary."
    6. The Woman on the Other Side
    A story about Alzheimer's.
    7. Four Seasons of a Man: Spring
    8. Four Seasons of a Man: Summer
    9. Four Seasons of a Man: Autumn
    10. Four Seasons of a Man: Winter
    Vignettes of a Vietnam War veteran's life.
    11. A Guide to the Apocalypse, by Henrietta Stevensen, Age 46
    A satiric look at Internet conspiracy theorists and zombie-obsessed loons.
    12. Who's Afraid of the Big Beowulf?
    A prose poem mashup of Little Red Riding Hood and Beowulf.
    13. Moonwalk
    Three kids lost in the guts of the Space Elevator.
    14. The Sky Fell
    . . . and what happened after.
    15. Places
    Gesture drawings in words. Not quite a poem, not quite stories. Prosody.
    16. The Coffin Worms
    A poem of the horrible things that happen after you die.
    17. The Death of Piers Plowman, or, The Barley-Child
    A metaphor from The Angelus of Millet.
    18.The Singsonger
    No idea. I think it's funny, anyway.
    19. The Rise of Arch-Lord Evil
    The origin story of the big evil badguy from every video game and fantasy story.
    20. Matt and Maggie
    Two punk kids deal with a suicide attempt.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Comins
    Release dateFeb 17, 2012
    ISBN9781466162938
    Where the Cloud Meets the Mountain and the Mountain Disappears
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    James Comins

    James Comins is the author of Fool School and Fool Askew, formerly available from Wayward Ink, "Notes Found Inside the Body of the Convict Clarence Skaggs," published in CrimeSpree Magazine #48, and other stories. He currently lives in New Orleans.

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