The Girl in the Red Coat
By Kim Antieau
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Bus driver Ed Samuels is tired of working overtime just because someone is killing women in Ann Arbor. Why is it his problem? One night he refuses to wait for a woman who is trying to get to the bus stop. The next morning he hears on the news that another woman has disappeared. Is it the same woman? The same woman he now sees everywhere he goes?
Includes bonus story: “Mourning Period.”
Kim Antieau has written many novels, short stories, poems, and essays. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, both in print and online, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Asimov’s SF, The Clinton Street Quarterly, The Journal of Mythic Arts, EarthFirst!, Alternet, Sage Woman, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. She was the founder, editor, and publisher of Daughters of Nyx: A Magazine of Goddess Stories, Mythmaking, and Fairy Tales. Her work has twice been short-listed for the James Tiptree Award and has appeared in many best-of-the-year anthologies. Critics have admired her “literary fearlessness” and her vivid language and imagination. Her first novel The Jigsaw Woman is a modern classic of feminist literature. She is also the author of a science fiction novel, The Gaia Websters and a contemporary tale set in the desert Southwest, Church of the Old Mermaids. Her other novels include Her Frozen Wild, The Fish Wife, and Coyote Cowgirl. Broken Moon, a novel for young adults, was a selection of the Junior Library Guild. She has also written other YA novels, including Deathmark, The Blue Tail, Ruby’s Imagine, and Mercy, Unbound. Kim lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, writer Mario Milosevic. Learn more about Kim and her writing at www.kimantieau.com. Find her books at your favorite ebook store.
Kim Antieau
Kim Antieau is the author of Mercy, Unbound. She lives with her husband in the Pacific Northwest.
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The Girl in the Red Coat - Kim Antieau
The Girl in the Red Coat
Kim Antieau
With bonus story:
Mourning Period
The Girl in the Red Coat
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Copyright (c) 2012 by Kim Antieau
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Mourning Period
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The Girl in the Red Coat
Mourning Period
The Girl in the Red Coat
Kim Antieau
Edward Samuels glanced at his watch and slowed the bus for the light. Only a few more stops and he would be finished for the night. He wished they would catch the killer; he was tired of the two hours of overtime he had to work every night on this extra run. Twelve women had been killed in twelve months. This was month thirteen and the police expected the killer to strike again any evening.
Samuels shrugged. Tonight twenty years of driving a bus seemed twenty years too long and he didn’t care about any killer. Why did he have to work overtime protecting people he didn’t know or care about? What about all this women’s lib crap? Weren’t they all taking judo or something? Samuels wanted to get home out of the cold, away from the gray skies and city-blackened snow. Once home, he would slip off his jacket, have a beer, a quick dinner, and then take his dog Rosie for a walk.
He pressed the brake to the floor and the bus whined to a halt. Only five stops after this. Samuels opened the door. Several people got on, dropped coins into the box, and then sat down, trying not to touch the people in the seats next to them. Someone in the back called to him, Someone’s coming, hold on a sec.
Samuels looked