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    Glow
    Glow
    Glow
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    Glow

    By Joseph D'Agnese

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    (Note: Glow is a short story.)

    Identical twins are supposed to think alike.

    Alan and Walt don’t.

    When a stranger gifts them the URL to a mysterious glowing website, the two brothers are mesmerized by the new electronic drug.

    In the right hands, such a website could be worth millions.

    If it doesn’t kill you first.

    * * *

    Glow is a 7,000-word short story, just one of six short stories in the Arm of Darkness collection.

    The full collection, sold separately, contains six short stories of horror: Skullworm, Roadhouse, Glow, Kin, Sunshine Lady, and the origin story, Arm of Darkness.

    Author Joseph D'Agnese is a frequent contributor to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoseph D'Agnese
    Release dateDec 20, 2013
    ISBN9781311747174
    Glow
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    Joseph D'Agnese

    Joseph D’Agnese is a journalist and author who has written for children and adults alike. He’s been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Discover, and other national publications. In a career spanning more than twenty years, his work has been honored with awards in three vastly different areas—science journalism, children’s literature, and mystery fiction. His science articles have twice appeared in the anthology Best American Science Writing. His children’s book, Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci, was an honoree for the Mathical Book Prize—the first-ever prize for math-themed children’s books. One of his crime stories won the 2015 Derringer Award for short mystery fiction. Another of his stories was selected by mega-bestselling author James Patterson for inclusion in the prestigious annual anthology, Best American Mystery Stories 2015. D’Agnese’s crime fiction has appeared in Shotgun Honey, Plots with Guns, Beat to a Pulp, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Mystery Weekly, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. D’Agnese lives in North Carolina with his wife, the New York Times bestselling author Denise Kiernan (The Girls of Atomic City).

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      Glow - Joseph D'Agnese

      Glow

      Glow

      A Short Story

      Joseph D’Agnese

      Nutgraf Productions LLC

      Glow

      Published by Joseph D’Agnese at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2012 Joseph D’Agnese

      First e-book publication by Nutgraf Productions LLC, December 2013.

      Cover art copyright © 2013 Jason Gurley jasongurley.com

      This e-book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this e-book may be reproduced in whole or in part, scanned, photocopied, recorded, distributed in any printed or electronic form, or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without express written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Glow by Joseph D’Agnese

      Identical twins are supposed to think alike.

      Alan and Walt don’t.

      When a stranger gifts them the URL to a mysterious glowing website, the two brothers are mesmerized by the new electronic drug.

      In the right hands, such a website could be worth millions.

      If it doesn’t kill you first.

      Glow is just one of six short stories in the ARM OF DARKNESS collection. The full collection contains six short stories of horror: Skullworm, Roadhouse, Glow, Kin, Sunshine Lady, and the origin story, Arm of Darkness.

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      Glow

      He’s getting cold now .

      I shift over a bit. The springs of the cot creak under my weight. I pull him closer. It’s getting dark. Time to make some decisions, but that’s feeling a little overwhelming.

      The truth is, I’ve never liked being alone in the dark. And I’ve never had to be, thanks to him. He’s always been there.

      I may have mocked him. Belittled him. Dishonored him. But he was always there. Funny: now I find it hard to make a move without him.

      If I could tell him anything, I’d say that I’m beginning to see that we are not all created equal. Some of us are idiots. Some of us are brilliant. Most of the time, though, what sets us apart is apparent to anyone who looks. Other times, those things are so close to the bone that they can only be discerned by the eye of a god.

      I fear that eye.

      The shop is still there somewhere off Ninth, near the campus. A little hole-in-the-wall place that caters to students on a budget. They’ll give you a trade on your old computer but then you have to order the next one from them. They can upgrade what you have, or if you prefer to do it yourself, give you five to ten bucks, depending, for the chips you swap out. I know it’s not much, but when all you’re looking to buy is a couple of slices and a Coke, that sounds as good as selling last semester’s textbooks.

      Walt worked the register all through undergrad and was still there the fall we started on our master’s. I didn’t have to work because I was Walt’s brother. Any money he earned was mine to spend as well. I had figured that out by the time we were eight; he never did.

      He knew a lot of the students who came

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