Souls Touched: Reasonable Rates

By K.G. McAbee

In 1933, C.L. Moore published her most famous short story, Shambleau. This is an homage to that immortal story. When an ancient Earthman arrives back on Mars after decades away, he finds things have changed....more than he could have imagined.

• Language: English
• Publisher: K.G. McAbee
• Release date: Dec 30, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310889219

K.G. McAbee

K.G. McAbee has had several books and nearly a hundred short stories published, and some of them are honestly quite readable. She writes steampunk, fantasy, science fiction, horror, pulp, westerns and, most recently, comics. She’s a member of Horror Writers Association and International Thriller Writers and is an Artist in Residence with the South Carolina Arts Commission. Her steampunk/zombie novella recently received an honorable mention in the 3rd quarter Writers of the Future contest.

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Souls Touched – Reasonable Rates

By K.G. McAbee

Story copyright K.G. McAbee 2013

Cover art: Medusa by Michelangelo Caravaggio

An homage to C. L. Moore's immortal Shambleau

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Souls Touched—Reasonable Rates

K.G. McAbee

How many times before this one has Man conquered space?

Dozens, hundred—more?

But more importantly, what does Man lose with each such conquest?

Channn—bo? mumbled Smith, not sure he had heard right. The shouts rose all around him in the darkness, shouts of anger and horror. More of the second than the first. But he could not quite make out the word those voices shouted, was not quite sure he could hear it right…

Not sure he wanted to hear right.

He fought against a