Faraway, Nearby

By Wayne Kyle Spitzer

"She’d been a perfect student through grade school, high school, and most of art school. She’d been a perfect catch for Gus, her first love. Sam, her second. Alex, her third, and Russ — her last. She’d been a perfect bitch through most of the ‘90s: she’d drank a lot, been paralyzed from the waist down on an L.A. freeway at 2 a.m., had crawled to and held a stranger she’d been riding (and sleeping) with as he died ..."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wayne Kyle Spitzer
• Release date: Oct 23, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370250127

Wayne Kyle Spitzer

Wayne Kyle Spitzer (born July 15, 1966) is an American author and low-budget horror filmmaker from Spokane, Washington. He is the writer/director of the short horror film, Shadows in the Garden, as well as the author of Flashback, an SF/horror novel published in 1993. Spitzer's non-genre writing has appeared in subTerrain Magazine: Strong Words for a Polite Nation and Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History. His recent fiction includes The Ferryman Pentalogy, consisting of Comes a Ferryman, The Tempter and the Taker, The Pierced Veil, Black Hole, White Fountain, and To the End of Ursathrax, as well as The X-Ray Rider Trilogy and a screen adaptation of Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows.

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FARAWAY, NEARBY

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Wayne Kyle Spitzer

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Lightning flashed, doing its white-hot paparazzi dance, and Tika jumped — not in reaction to the too-close strike, but to the pale, gaunt