blonde hair. The head tore away, and the rest of the corpse slumped to the pavement. "This isn't a joke, Jonah. Want to end up like her?"
Jonah shifted his weight from one foot to the other. What he really wanted to do was run, all right...run away from Stanza and the blonde and the feratu and the funeral and everything. Just start over without all the noise.
"I need to think about it," said Jonah.
"There's no time." Stanza tossed the head aside and stomped over to stare him in the eye. "We've got to leave now ."
"And go where?" said Jonah. "What's the first stop?"
"Church, of course." Stanza smiled. "Where did you think?"
What happens next? Find out in Vampire Lords , now available from Tsetse Press !
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About the Author
Robert T. Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, comics, essays, articles, and podcasts have been published around the world. According to superstar fantasy and science fiction writer Mike Resnick, Robert "sees the world like no one else sees it, and makes incredibly witty, incisive stories out of that skewed worldview." Robert was nominated for the British Fantasy Award for his story, "Fear of Rain." His young adult urban fantasy novel, My Favorite Band Does Not Exist , is due in 2011 from Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Visit Robert T. Jeschonek online at www.thefictioneer.com . You can also find him on Facebook, MySpace, and LiveJournal.
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For news on his latest online projects, visit the Tsetse Press website at www.tsetsepress.com .
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And coming soon from Clarion Books:
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FORCED RETIREMENT
Copyright © 2010 by Robert T. Jeschonek
www.thefictioneer.com
Cover Art Copyright © 2010 by Ben Baldwin
www.benbaldwin.co.uk
Published in May 2010 by Tsetse Press by arrangement with the author. All rights reserved by the author.
Originally appeared in A Thousand Faces, The Quarterly Journal of Superhuman Literature , November 2009.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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