A utopia where the most privileged get to do whatever they want to do with their lives, indulging their slightest whims via the bodies whose wombs they occupy; a soldier's wife tries to love a husband who is little more than backup memory; a society in which the citizens all make merry for nine rema
Adamson's Rock and Other Stories: ssc
β Scribed by Brendan P. Myers
- Publisher
- Exigua Publishing
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 69 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1449505155
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A detective investigating a suicide comes away with more than he bargained for . . . a routine clinical trial goes horribly wrong . . . an avid book collector learns to just what lengths he will go to hold on to a treasure . . . and a close-knit New England family comes to terms with the end of the world.
From the author of APPLEWOOD and SINCERELY DEAD come eight spine-tingling tales of terror and wonder, featuring the award-winning novelette ADAMSON'S ROCK.
ADAMSON'S ROCK AND OTHER STORIES has something for everyone.
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