When the Last Light Fades: Three Stories

By K.G. McAbee

A scientist invents the ultimate weight-loss drug....a teacher finds out what one student really thinks of her...and what really happened to the wife and son of the young Professor Abraham Van Helsing...

• Language: English
• Publisher: K.G. McAbee
• Release date: Apr 19, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311641229

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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When the Last Light Fades: Three Stories

By K.G. McAbee

Stories copyright K.G. McAbee 2014

Cover art: photo by Stephan Krause, Wikimedia, public domain

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Eureka! Doctor Leopold Saunders had always wanted to shout Eureka. It felt good, so he did it again. Eureka!

What in the name of everything scientific are you eureka-ing about, Leo? his research associate, Thomas Atherton, asked.

I've invented the most amazing thing since, since, since…fire! Leo raised his pudgy arms into the air.

I'm pretty sure fire wasn't invented, Leo. Try discovered.

Potato, potahto. Leo waved both extended hands airily. All I know is, we're going to be rich.

"GiCon is going to be richer, you mean. If you recall, Gigantic Conglomerate Unlimited owns our research output, our houses, our vehicles, and a goodly proportion of the entire planet."

But some of that filthy lucre, Thomas my lad, will certainly fall towards us, as is the natural manner of such things which roll downhill. Leo poured a cup of coffee, to which he added seven packets of sugar and stirred…and stirred.

And we, agreed Tommy, are without a doubt the very definition of downhill. Now tell me more about your discovery.

Leo Saunders drank his coffee in three gulps, then motioned his colleague towards a stainless table with cages full of obese