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    Paradise Lost
    Paradise Lost
    Paradise Lost
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    Paradise Lost

    By Don Webb

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    An ambitious journalist summons the hideous horse-demon Seere, seeking the First Contact scoop of the ages. But things really get weird only when the aliens from

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateJan 31, 2022
    ISBN9781479465170
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      Paradise Lost - Don Webb

      Table of Contents

      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      PARADISE LOST

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      Copyright © 1993 by Don Webb.

      Originally published in The Seenth Day and After.

      Published by Wildside Press, LLC.

      wildsidepress.com | bcmystery.com

      PARADISE LOST

      THE ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION STORY

      by DON WEBB

      I checked my notes one last time. If I fouled up, there would be Hell to pay. I traced the triangle of Art. I uttered the words that open wide the gates of Hell, Zazaszazas nasethenda zazas. The linoleum trembled and my Formica countertops shook. The chalk sigil glowed incandescently. Waves of heat pounded my face. I stepped back against my dishwasher and my butt activated the superscrub cycle. The Book of the Green Fly just didn’t take the dimensions of the modern efficiency apartment to mind. I commanded the demon to appear, Veni Seere! Appear and be friendly to me. I’d chosen Seere since he can cause things to come about instantly, transport anything to anyplace in a split second, and distort messages. An angular vortex opened in the shimmering air and a black gelatinous mass squelched through. The mass reared itself up into a yellow, green, red, and black column of putrescence with a thousand mouths and a hundred eyes. I thought I was going to lose my cookies.

      Appear to me in a comely and pleasing form! I commanded.

      The column gibbered and shrieked. What would the neighbors think?

      Appear to me in a comely and pleasing form or I shall destroy your name and you shall not be able to manifest in a coherent form for a hundred years. I put a paper plate upon which I had written the demon’s name atop the big burner on my Hotpoint electric range. I turned

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