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    Darker Passions
    Darker Passions
    Darker Passions
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    Darker Passions

    By Edward Bryant

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    A trio of dark tales, all in the name of passion.

    With an introduction by Dan Simmons.

    Because of Ed's financial needs, almost all the profits from this book go directly to Ed. Donations to help with Ed's medical and other financial needs are also most appreciated via www.FriendsOfEd.org. Thank you!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherReAnimus Press
    Release dateOct 23, 2016
    ISBN9781370027231
    Darker Passions
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    Edward Bryant

    Edward Bryant is the multi-Nebula Award winning author of over a hundred short stories, over a thousand essays and reviews, and one novel with Harlan Ellison, PHOENIX WITHOUT ASHES.Ed's complete collected works are in the process of becoming available from ReAnimus Press.

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      Book preview

      Darker Passions - Edward Bryant

      DARKER PASSIONS

      by

      EDWARD BRYANT

      With an Introduction by

      DAN SIMMONS

      Produced by ReAnimus Press

      Other books by Edward Bryant:

      Phoenix Without Ashes

      Cinnabar

      Among the Dead and Other Events Leading to the Apocalypse

      Particle Theory

      Neon Twilight

      The Baku: Tales of the Nuclear Age

      Wyoming Sun

      Fetish

      Trilobyte

      Predators and Other Stories

      © 2014, 1992 by Edward Bryant. All rights reserved.

      http://ReAnimus.com/authors/edwardbryant

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is 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 purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      ~~~

      for Valarie Abney

      who sees folks like these every day at work

      ~~~

      Table of Contents

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      THIS MAN WILL SCARE YOU...

      DOING COLFAX

      THE LONELIEST NUMBER

      HUMAN REMAINS

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Many thanks to Paul Mikol and Scot Stadalsky, Kris Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith, Doug and Tomi Lewis, great editors and publishers all; Leanne C. Harper and Dan Simmons, friends and critics beyond compare; and Melissa Sherman, artist par excellence. The author is sure—or at least optimistic—that THEIR lives are cheerier than those of the people in DARKER PASSIONS. Oh, and I probably also ought to mention Ted, Henry Lee, Otis, and a whole passel of other folks whose names I don’t know, and hope never to meet up with.

      THIS MAN WILL SCARE YOU...

      AND HE SHOULD

      (Introduction to Stories by Edward Bryant)

      by Dan Simmons Friday the 13th, November, 1992

      I.

      In Which We Analyze the Arcane Nature of Introductions

      The question is, of course, why are you reading an introduction rather than going straight to the fiction? You bought the book for the stories, didn’t you? Of course you did. Then why read a discursive, digressive bit of irrelevant non-fiction when you can get straight to the good stuff?

      The reason may lie in one of three possible answers—(1) The introduction comes first and you are hopelessly linear concrete in your response to the world (2) You know that ‘introductions’ are vestigial remnants of some Victorian literary sensibility, but you grew up, as I did, reading them and can no more kick the habit than you can reform certain other prejudices from a previous age... or... (3) Being a savvy reader, you know that an introduction might give you some insight into the author which can, in turn, throw some light on the fiction itself.

      Assuming that (3) is the only answer that makes sense, we continue with the introduction knowing that only some astounding personal or literary revelation can recoup the time spent reading it.

      II.

      In Which We Discover That Edward Bryant Is The Illegitimate Child of Both Dean Koontz and Stephen King

      It’s true. I can prove it.

      You may ask how can someone be the illegitimate offspring of TWO fathers. Well, it isn’t easy. I suspect that it has something to do with those U.S. Army cloning experiments that ran amuck in a remote east-Wyoming biogenetics lab some years ago. It was a time when we were desperately trying to close the Literary Gap with the Soviet Union and my sources tell me that the effort that resulted in Edward Bryant began with irradiated sperm, waldo-manipulated petri dishes of recombined DNA, and some geneticist wonks who knew good genre literature when they read it. It is a fact that both Koontz and King were seen in east-central Wyoming during that period, and while their spokesmen say on the record only that they were shooting grouse, there is room for skepticism. Rumor has it that Tama Janowitz carried the Steve-Rogerish literary fetal experiment to term.

      I can sense your doubt. Well answer this question then—have you ever met anyone, ANYONE who ever saw Edward Bryant as a boy or young man? Have you ever seen a photograph of Bryant before he had a mustache or beard? You won’t. Trust me.

      But why Dean Koontz and Stephen King, you ask. Listen.

      In the field of horror fiction, Dean Koontz is perhaps the preeminent GENTLEMAN.

      I once visited a California bookstore where Dean had dropped in to sign a few books for local fans only to sign for TEN STRAIGHT HOURS before hobbling home. When I asked him why

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