Fly By Night

By C. C. Blake

In a future nightmare, our world has become one massive refuse bin. A muddy, offal-festooned place that is lorded over by monstrous flies. Going outside requires protective gear. However, even a filthy worlds needs its keepers.
Dale is a man dedicated to gathering the bodies of the dead for recycling. He tends this task with utmost dedication, not because it is his calling, but because it provides him with the one thing he craves: redemption for a grave mistake.
In this stunning tour de force, C. C. Blake presents a thoughtful take on an unlikely but involving nightmare scenario. It's science fiction done with a bizarro sensibility, in a story that only Blake could tell.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Twice Told Tales II
• Release date: Feb 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310274183

C. C. Blake

C.C. Blake has lived across the United States, starting in the suburbs of Detroit, to Massachusetts’ second largest city (Worcester) to the country’s seventh largest city (San Antonio, Texas, that is). He’s has a variety of jobs, working as a substitute teacher, the graveyard shift dishwasher at a haunted Denny’s, lab research monkey and teaching assistant at a second tier college. Currently, he works as an automation consultant for a chemical company on the Northeast side of SAtown (which isn’t as Hellish as it sounds). Blake’s most popular character, irrepressible adventurer Chuck Cave, has appeared in over two dozen stories, including the 2005 Man’s Story 2 Story of the Year Award winner “Chuck Cave and the Vanishing Vixen.” The character’s supernatural thriller stories (which began with the seminal “Cave and the Vamp”) are all being released as a part of Vampires2.com’s initial foray into e-books. These new versions are presented in expanded and revised versions, all are the author’s preferred texts. Be sure to collect them all! In addition to his pulp stories for the 2-Empire (Man’s Story 2, Vampires 2, Androids 2 and Paranormal Romance 2), Blake’s fiction has appeared in several anthologies, including Unparalleled Journeys II (from Journey Books Publishing) and Fearology: Terrifying Tales of Phobias (from Library of Horror Press).

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Fly By Night

A Speculative Fiction Nightmare

BY: C. C. Blake

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.

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Fly By Night

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Fly By Night

The darkness passed around the dreamer's body as he floated through the night of starless wonder. Dreams of life and death and crushing fortuitous fate swam through his mind, birthed in the dark reaches he now found himself victim to.

The dark fantasies crawled through the space separating them — Dream from Dreamer — moving on arms and legs, slithering through air, pulling themselves with tongues like green pseudopodia in the urge to meet him.

They buzzed on the wings