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    Saint Valentine's Day
    Saint Valentine's Day
    Saint Valentine's Day
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    Saint Valentine's Day

    By Michele Lang

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    A story of love and techno-disaster in New York City...

    On Valentine's Day, an epic storm hits the Big Apple, and Amy desperately wants to get home to her daughter.

    When the storm becomes part of an ominous military attack, a beloved stranger on Amy's subway car rises to the terrible challenge with the old school courage of St. Valentine. But how will they survive?

    Author’s Note: I wrote this story in February 2011. At the time, we in New York were having a lovely winter, with weekly blizzards, massive shut downs, and general angst about the economy, terrorists, etc.

    My mood demanded an apocalyptic tale. Instead of writing a story set in a distant place and time, or one long after “the end,” I instead wrote a story that extrapolated from the crummier aspects of daily life, a tale that I could easily imagine happening down the street from here, next Thursday.

    But the story is about more than this. “Saint Valentine’s Day” is really about love, and the sacrifice that love demands. So often, the problems in our lives – the big ones, the little ones even more – blind us to the people who matter the most, the people who bring magic into the world, no matter how grim it can sometimes get during the daily grind.

    You might love a child the way that Amy loves Suki. Or it’s your passion for classical music that means everything to you. Or maybe you just love life itself, in all of its imperfect, crummy glory.

    When things go apocalyptic, it’s love that matters in the end...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFive Tigers Publishing
    Release dateDec 4, 2011
    ISBN9781465704917
    Saint Valentine's Day
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    Michele Lang

    MICHELE LANG is the author of the historical urban fantasy Lady Lazarus trilogy. Like her protagonist Magda, Lang is of Hungarian-Jewish ancestry. She and her family lives on Long Island.

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      Saint Valentine's Day - Michele Lang

      SAINT VALENTINE’S DAY

      By Michele Lang

      Copyright 2011 by Michele Lang

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      We’ve had a winter full of portents. The wicked winter storms have gone from once a week, to twice a week, to nearly every day. In Manhattan, alternate side of the street parking has been suspended until spring. Thousands of cars are entombed in snowy mountains rising up in a range along Broadway and Park Avenue, and in my morbid moments, I imagine their owners buried inside until spring – or forever.

      I don’t drive, I take the Long Island Rail Road from my dinky suburban burg into Penn Station, and subject myself to the kabuki security theatre – the lines, the random searches. Eventually, I make it onto the Number 1 downtown, to my job at the fabulous Faraday Galleries in SoHo.

      I was damn lucky to get that crappy job. My daughter Suki is three years old, with glossy black pigtails, sparkling almond eyes, and a pure laugh. It was for Suki’s sake that I worked every angle, fought like a cage boxer to get a job after graduation, though by now the new grad unemployment rate is north of fifty percent.

      The early afternoon of February 14th, I was thinking about Suki as I walked out of the gallery and locked the door. Had to beat this latest storm, get home to her before the snow shut down the city yet again.

      The sky was ugly, flat gray. The snow began to fall, and I watched it as I worked on my gloves and zipped up my white parka. A lot of things had changed since I was a kid. Even the snow looked different – now the snow fell in little splinters, sharp like fragments of ice. It came down gray, like it was pre-dirtied in that gunmetal sky.

      The jagged little flakes poured down like salt. I squinted my way along the street, pulling my hood up close to protect my

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