Read Excerpts from Great Thrillers
by Joseph T. McFadden
Hermes ' Viper
Standing before the mirror, Sara shut her eyes and thought of fire,
and began counting slowly from ten backward. At the number five
she changed, and Hera the scholar, keeper of Hera's Journal, stood
unsteadily, looking at her reflection. Heads blurred in a long moment
of confusion before her posture stabilized. Then she began to commiserate
with herself ...
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Fulton's Monkey and other short stories
While she works, Mabel Mills looks
across her kitchen counter through a rear window into the simmering
landscape where the sun of late summer wilts everything to a silent
standstill. Listening, almost holding her breath in the silence
of the smothering land, she awaits and dreads the approaching mid-afternoon
hour. She drips sweat in the heat of the kitchen, both hands too
busy to fan. The silence deepens as the day advances.
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"Power" ...
The Deadly World of Medicine
Most people reacted with astonishment and doubt when the numbers
were first made public more then five years ago. The reports claimed
100,000 to 300,000 preventable deaths every year in the medical
system of the United States. As would be expected, the same reaction
came from the public at large and from patients and doctors alike
to this startling news. Impossible! Unbelievable! Surely these figures
can't be right! And who says so, anyway? So you look to see who's
talking and find the facts even more sobering.
Coming in 2007...
The Wafer
While driving home through the dusk of a warm, rainy April day, Eric Stuart spotted a young woman running down the sidewalk ahead as though trying desperately to escape something about to overtake her. On impulse he swerved out of traffic, slowing along the curb behind her racing feet as she lowered her head and dashed forward once again, turning in stride to glance back through vernal greens and pale yellows of wet foliage along the street, panic on her delicate and lovely face. Alarmed blue eyes met his gaze as he reached back to swing the rear door open—a silent offering—and without missing stride she leapt across the grass divide and plunged into the back seat.
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