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    Knotty & Ice: An Eve of Light Short Story: Eve of Light
    Knotty & Ice: An Eve of Light Short Story: Eve of Light
    Knotty & Ice: An Eve of Light Short Story: Eve of Light
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    Knotty & Ice: An Eve of Light Short Story: Eve of Light

    By Harambee K. Grey-Sun

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    Even though he's one of the Heartland Security Agency's Peacemaker agents, a man sworn to help protect and preserve the morality of the United States, Neal can't give up his habit of patronizing prostitutes. When one of them steals the prototype of a top secret device, however, he has no choice but to come clean in order to rally fellow agents for a recovery mission. His situation goes from bad to worse when he is tricked into a plot to take down one of the Agency's most powerful secret allies—an angel from Heaven&Hell.

     

    Incorporating elements of fantasy, horror, science fiction, suspense, and psychological thriller, Eve of Light stories are set in a world where humankind's twisted fantasies and most disturbing nightmares have manifested as pulsing, hard-edged realities. Dark fiction at its weirdest.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHyperVerse Books
    Release dateJun 25, 2014
    ISBN9781501411557
    Knotty & Ice: An Eve of Light Short Story: Eve of Light
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    Harambee K. Grey-Sun

    Harambee K. Grey-Sun is the author of several novels, short stories, and poetry collections, including Colder Than Ice, Blind Dates: Weird Stories, and Wine Songs, Vinegar Verses. He writes in a variety of genres but his stories often fall somewhere on the spectrum of horror, ranging from the supernatural to the psychological. The curious can find more information about him and his writings at www.harambeegreysun.com.

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      Knotty & Ice - Harambee K. Grey-Sun

      Knotty & Ice

      An Eve of Light Short Story

      Harambee K. Grey-Sun

      HyperVerse Books, LLC

      Contents

      Knotty & Ice

      About the Series

      Eve of Light Story Order

      About the Author

      Also by Harambee K. Grey-Sun

      By Harambee Grey-Sun

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Copyright © 2014, 2020 by Harambee K. Grey-Sun

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, including scanning, photocopying, or otherwise without the expressed written consent or permission from the publisher or author, except in the case of a reviewer, who may quote brief passages embodied in critical articles or in a review.

      Cover design by James, GoOnWrite.com.

      ISBN-13: 978-1-64044-901-5

      Published by HyperVerse Books, LLC

      www.hyperversebooks.com

      writing between and beyond the lines

      Knotty & Ice

      Neal didn’t stop for the cyclist. He didn’t even take the time to consider himself lucky when the kid swerved out of his Acura’s path.

      On a mission, he took up two spaces in the parking lot then almost forgot to lock the car’s doors as he dashed for the convenience store’s entrance. He hustled up and down the aisles twice before finally losing it.

      "Dammit—Don’t you have any Listerine?"

      Sorry, shiny, the clerk hollered back at him.

      Neal knew his skin was still covered in baby oil—only in the car did he realize it might’ve been wise to rinse off before he’d left Lady Kat’s room—but the fact the clerk could tell he was slicked up from a couple dozen feet away only made him more anxious. What if the chuckling fool made a leap in logic and figured it out? Shiny head and arms sticking out of a wrinkled, stained polo . . . Couldn’t have been the worst or oddest of what has passed through the convenience store; but the clerk wouldn’t take his eyes off him.

      We have a dry mouth oral rinse. The fool, still chuckling, may or may not have been trying to be helpful.

      I need something that kills odors, Neal said. "Germs."

      It does the same thing.

      "No, it doesn’t."

      He had to get out of there. He had to get out of the store, and out of the area. He wanted to just go and jump in some magic acid bath, something that would cleanse and purify his clothes and body, inside and out.

      He grabbed the bottle of oral rinse and laid three dollars on the counter.

      One short, dude, the clerk said.

      It’s only a three-ounce bot— Neal closed his eyes and sighed. Never mind. He gave the clerk another buck and twisted off the cap as he headed for the exit. For the next ten minutes, he stood next to his car, swishing, sloshing, and gargling the bottle’s contents. It was no use. He couldn’t wash the taste from his mouth. Or the stench from his upper lip.

      He got into his Acura and sped off. He’d take the back roads, making sure he reached the Agency even faster than if he’d taken the highway. He sure as hell could maneuver a vehicle more smoothly and successfully than he could a woman’s body. His experience with the Kat

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