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    The Barren: A Tale of Alien Terror
    The Barren: A Tale of Alien Terror
    The Barren: A Tale of Alien Terror
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    The Barren: A Tale of Alien Terror

    By Wayne Kyle Spitzer

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    "Did you see it? Did you see it?"

    He catches her wrists in his hands and holds them—an overly intimate gesture she could be offended by, but isn't.

    "I saw a jet," he says, staring into her eyes, continuing to hold her hands. "A jet—they're everywhere out here today. They must be doing maneuvers or something. It's okay, all right? You're okay."

    She begins to calm down at last, however slightly. There's something about him, something about his mild eyes and soft but firm hands, his shock of dark hair, his soothing voice. She senses something and looks up, sees a fighter jet flying right over the top of them—low enough that she can make out the rivets in its fuselage. It is there and gone before its sharp-edged whine even cuts the air.

    "See?" he says, releasing her hands. "Just a jet."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHobb's End Books
    Release dateOct 11, 2018
    ISBN9781540140012
    The Barren: A Tale of Alien Terror
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    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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