She opened her eyes and saw her daughter's face looking up at her expectantly, with obvious concern but with obvious confusion.
Janet knew that nothing she could say right now would help her daughter to sense the night in waiting. But she also knew that someday, with all its vast impatience, the night would reach out for everyone her daughter loved.
Her daughter: not yet married, not yet widowed, but soon.
All too soon.
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Acknowledgements
Stories are imagined and written in solitude, but quite often, the resolve to keep on writing is fueled by the kindness of other people. For that reason, I would like to offer my sincere thanks:
To the artist of this book's cover, Tragelaphus, not only for his beautiful work here and on the cover for All Roads Lead To Winter, but for encouragement at a time when I most needed to hear it.
To Barbara and Christopher Roden, and to John Pelan: the first editors to recognize and publish my stories.
To Jim Rockhill, for his wise and patient email conversations about fiction, art, and life, and for his recommendation that I send my stories to Barbara, Christopher, and John.
To Jean-Yves Duperron, for opening the door onto a fascinating world of composers, for his passionate advocacy of music, for his friendship during several dark years and beyond.
And to Terry Gomes, for his wonderful compositions and songs, for his critical reader's mind, for his constant moral support, for having the great good sense to marry Christine Lemire, and for introducing me to her chicken rice with ginger.
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"Who Would Remain" (1998). A slightly different version of the story appeared in All Hallows 40, October, 2005, edited by Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden.
"Never Noticed, Never There" (1999) was accepted in 2006 by Barbara Roden for All Hallows, but publication was delayed. With her permission, the story is published here for the first time.
"Shadows In The Sunrise" (1998) appeared in the anthology, Alone On The Darkside (Roc/New American Library, 2006), and is reprinted with permission of the editor, John Pelan.
"Lamia Dance" (Original version, 1993; revised version, 2005) was also accepted by John Pelan for Darkside, but publication was delayed. With his permission, the story is published here for the first time.
"When The Echo Hates The Voice" (2005), "The Weight Of Its Awareness" (2011), and "The Vast Impatience Of The Night" (2011) are published here for the first time.
About the author
A resident of Gatineau, Quebec, Mark Fuller Dillon sets much of his work in that region. He combines local scenery with bizarre events from his own life... and from his nightmares.
He would love to hear from readers, and can reached at
[email protected] or at his website, https://markfullerdillon.blogspot.ca -- criticism and comments are always welcome.
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