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Halfway down the stairs, by Gary A. Braunbeck

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Halfway down the stairs

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by Gary A. Braunbeck

Climb halfway down the stairs with Bram Stoker Award-Winning author Gary A. Braunbeck, into worlds that occupy the spaces between “here” and “there,” where office workers become little more than scrolls of code and an ordinary man discovers that he has to help reassemble the missing face of God; from battle-scarred veterans who have to protect their village from encroaching spirits to a college experiment that may bring about the end of days, all of these stories feature Braunbeck<U+2019>s trademark element: an unblinking eye for emotional detail that elevates the subject matter of each piece into the realm of the genuinely literary

Pt. 1. Throw it at the Wall and see what sticks. Crybaby bridge #25 ; "...He didn't even leave a note..." ; Attack of the giant deformed mutant cannibalistic gnashing sloggerers from Planet Cygnus X-2.73: a love story ; Househunting ; All the unlived moments ; At the "pay here, please" table ; Consolation ; Bargain ; Shikata ga nai: a bag lady's tale ; Patience ; Always something there to remind me ; Return to Mariabronn ; Cyrano -- Pt. 2. With a little help from my friends. Great pity ; In hollow houses ; Afterward, there will be a hallway ; For want of a better smile ; Curtain call ; Ungrateful places ; Little off the top ; Tales the ashes tell ; Just out of reach ; El poso de mundo ; Don't sit under the apple tree ; Redaction ; Chow hound ; John Wayne's dream ; Ballad of the side-street wizard ; We now pause for station identification -- Pt. 3.Sometime then. Rami temporales ; Sisterhood of plain-faced women ; Union dues ; All but the ties eternal ; After the elephant ballet ; Cocteau prayers ; Dinosaur day ; In the house of the hangman one does not talk of rope ; Iphigenia ; Duty ; All over, all gone, bye-bye

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