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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms N.K. Jemisin

"A complex, edge-of-your-seat story with plenty of funny, scary, and bittersweet twists."—Publishers Weekly
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Mr. Shivers

Mr. Shivers Robert Jackson Bennett

"...like a collaboration between
Stephen King and John Steinbeck..."
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Twitter Fiction

Jeff Somers — author of The Electric Church, The Digital Plague, and the forthcoming The Eternal Prison — is tweeting a short story, a few lines at a time.

the sense of vastness that the open, undeveloped property conveyed—he felt unreal, as if it was all put there just for him to contemplate. 9:00 AM yesterday from web

With the soft rustling of the grass swaying in the wind and the shadowed, shifting mass of the tree line in the distance— 9:00 AM yesterday from web

The sky was a peculiar shade of dark, dark purple, making it seem like the universe beyond was on fire, being consumed. 9:00 AM yesterday from web

Henry stood on his back porch with a cup of after-dinner coffee and shivered in the cool twilight air. 9:00 AM yesterday from web

The Black Boxes, by Jeff Somers 8:59 AM yesterday from web

Follow him at www.twitter.com/somers_story

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