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    Bait
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    Ebook37 pages32 minutes

    Bait

    By Annie Reed

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    Sarah, George, and Holly, three survivors with nothing in common except a serious need not to be eaten.

    Former party-girl Holly thinks she's tough. She can take care of herself in this new world of the undead. Sure, she hooked up with Sarah and George just like she used to hook up with her stoner friends, but she doesn't really need them. Holly's got a gun and a baseball bat, and she's not afraid to take out anyone who's infected, no matter who they used to be.

    She's one tough chick, alright.

    Right up until one little girl changes everything.
    This edition of "Bait" includes a BONUS copy of Annie Reed's zombie survivor story "Ella and Mo."

    "The appearance of a new Annie Reed story is a treat. Try one and you'll be hooked." -- Dave Hendrickson, author of CRACKING THE ICE, forthcoming from WestSide Press

    Annie Reed is a prolific writer whose fiction has been published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine as well as in numerous anthologies from Daw and Pocket Books.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThunder Valley Press
    Release dateMay 4, 2011
    ISBN9781458164582
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    Annie Reed

    Award-winning author and editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch calls Annie Reed “one of the best writers I’ve come across in years.”Annie’s won recognition for her stellar writing across multiple genres. Her story “The Color of Guilt” originally published in Fiction River: Hidden in Crime, was selected as one of The Best Crime and Mystery Stories 2016. Her story “One Sun, No Waiting” was one of the first science fiction stories honored with a literary fellowship award by the Nevada Arts Foundation, and her novel PRETTY LITTLE HORSES was among the finalists in the Best First Private Eye Novel sponsored by St. Martin’s Press and the Private Eye Writers of America.A frequent contributor to the Fiction River anthologies and Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Annie’s recent work includes the superhero origin novel FASTER, the near-future science fiction short novel IN DREAMS, and UNBROKEN FAMILIAR, a gritty urban fantasy mystery short novel. Annie’s also one of the founding members of the innovative Uncollected Anthology, a quarterly series of themed urban fantasy stories written by some of the best writers working today.Annie’s mystery novels include the Abby Maxon private investigator novels PRETTY LITTLE HORSES and PAPER BULLETS, the Jill Jordan mystery A DEATH IN CUMBERLAND, and the suspense novel SHADOW LIFE, written under the name Kris Sparks, as well as numerous other projects she can’t wait to get to. For more information about Annie, including news about upcoming bundles and publications, go to www.annie-reed.com.

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      Bait - Annie Reed

      BAIT

      Annie Reed

      With complete bonus story

      ELLA AND MO

      BAIT

      Copyright © 2011 Annie Reed

      ELLA AND MO

      Copyright © 2011 Annie Reed

      Published by Thunder Valley Press at Smashwords

      Cover art copyright 2010 by Ivan Bliznetsov at iStockphoto.com

      Cover and layout Copyright © 2011 Thunder Valley Press

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      These stories are licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

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      Bait

      Ella and Mo (Bonus Story)

      Copyright Information

      About the Author

      BAIT

      Sarah saw the little girl first.

      Stop the truck! Oh, George, please stop the truck!

      George didn't want to stop. He was still too freaked by the run out of Reno. Half a tank of gas was all we managed to get at the last Arco station on 395 before the locals sniffed us out. Most of them don't come out into the sunlight, but every gas station in Nevada has a helpful tin roof over the pumps to keep the tourists from burning their tender scalps crispy red in the high altitude desert sun.

      Not that Nevada has tourists anymore.

      Not that anyplace does.

      Doesn't matter that we're not from here. We're survivors, not tourists. Everyone else are locals, as George calls them.

      George doesn't like to use the Z word. Sarah and I don't either. Makes it sound like we're in the middle of some low-rent horror movie. We're not. And calling them The Infected makes it sound like they've just got a bad case of the flu, no big deal. Trust me when I say, it's a Very Big Deal. End of the world, Big Deal. I keep expecting to see an avenging angel sweep down out of the sky, Hollywood blockbuster style, and rip us to shreds for fucking up God's grand plan.

      Not that Sarah and George and I were responsible for this whole mess. We were never responsible for much of anything, which makes the whole last three people on earth thing

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