White Crows

For psychic Mira Morales, it begins when a crazed woman accosts a jogger and demands to know where she can find Mira. In a confrontation, the lunatic is killed by the jogger and turns to stone before she hits the ground. Mira reads the body and makes a startling discovery. The stone woman is from 2144, where the descendants of climate change survivors—Normals and White Crows—live in a giant dome. Crows represent nature's rapid evolutionary leap to save humanity by endowing people with extraordinary abilities. Normals outnumber Crows, who keep them enslaved. Now the dome is collapsing, and the Crows' only hope for the future lies in returning to the past. Hundreds of them are on their way to Mira's time. The invasion has begun. In these twenty tales of the weird and twisted you will visit temples dedicated to the worship of dark gods spawned under the diseased light of long-dead stars; find yourself lost in damned places where truth and sanity vanish like mist in sunlight; meet strangers who make you pray that all you think you know is wrong; and discover that love is really just another gateway to unending despair. You may even find confirmation of the dreadful fact that you are what you always feared you might be. Stories included in this collection: Beneath Black Spires Put on the Mask The Turn of the Tide The Cobwebbed Bird House The Last Ones Sunday (Early Evening Ecstasy) Taking the Cure The Rolling of Old Thunder Red Walls Out of Stock Finest Garments Repaired In the Deeps of Dream By a Scarlet Thread Side 1, Track 3 Treading the Lost Path (Descending Aklo Songs) A Meeting Beneath the Moon For the Love of Insects Late Night, Caradoc Street The Sixth Guardian Doorgrave to the Bittersea