by John Everson
Skyy stepped out of the cave behind the boys and took a breath.
And then another. And another. Her third eye began to open with a glimpse of the future but she poked a thumb at it, blinding its vision.
And then she opened her lungs and breathed a sigh of relief.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Everson is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels Covenant (Delirium Books, 2004) and Sacrifice (Delirium Books, 2007) which will both be released in mass market paperback from Leisure Books in 2008/2009. A Polish translation of Covenant was issued by Poland’s Red Horse Books as Demoniczne Przymierze in late summer 2007.
His short fiction has appeared in magazines like Space and Time, Dark Discoveries, Wicked Karnival, Red Scream, Black October and Grue, and in the anthologies A Dark and Deadly Valley, Kolchak: The Night Stalker Casebook, Dark Doorways, Cold Flesh, Damned: An Anthology of the Lost, In Delirium and the CD-ROM anthology Bloodtype, which includes an Everson-composed techno theme song. His short stories have also been translated and published in Polish and French. Much of his short fiction has been collected in three short story collections – Needles & Sins (Necro Publications, 2007), Vigilantes of Love (Twilight Tales, 2003) and Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions (Delirium Books, 2000). He is also the co-editor of the Spooks! ghost story anthology (Twilight Tales, 2004), and the founder of Dark Arts Books: www.darkartsbooks.com.
John lives near Chicago with his wife Geri, son Shaun, and Kiwi and Lem, his two avian “editorial assistants.”
For information on his fiction, art and music, visit John Everson: Dark Arts at www.johneverson.com.
