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    Please Look After This Angel
    Please Look After This Angel
    Please Look After This Angel
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    Please Look After This Angel

    By Tansy Rayner Roberts

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    Even the most ordinary lives have extraordinary moments.
    A breath of frozen time.
    A shabby angel spotted in a bookshop, or at a party.
    An ex-girfriend turned famous poet, who wants to trap you as her muse.
    A lonely prisoner, weaving a tangled web to pass the time when her lover wil actually notice her.
    A soldier, exhausted from the War Effort against the aliens, making an emotional connection with her enemy.

    These stories have wings.

    Brought to you by the award-winning science fiction and fantasy author, Tansy Rayner Roberts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTansy Rayner Roberts
    Release dateFeb 14, 2018
    ISBN9780648174103
    Please Look After This Angel
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    Tansy Rayner Roberts

    Tansy Rayner Roberts is a classical scholar, a fictional mother and a Hugo Award winning podcaster. She can be found all over the internet and also in the wilds of Southern Tasmania. She has written many books.

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      Please Look After This Angel - Tansy Rayner Roberts

      Please Look After This Angel

      Please Look After This Angel

      and other winged stories

      Tansy Rayner Roberts

      Copyright © 2017 by Tansy Rayner Roberts

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Please Look After This Angel first published in Angel Story/

      Islandia

      2012

      The Raven & Her Victory, first published in Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe, Lethe

      Press

      2013

      Of War and Wings, first published in Clockwork Universe: Steampunk vs. Aliens, Zombies Need Brains

      LLC

      2014

      The Curse is Come Upon Me Cried is original to this collection.

      Created with Vellum Created with Vellum

      Contents

      1. Please Look After This Angel

      Author’s Note: Please Look After This Angel

      2. The Raven & Her Victory

      Author’s Note: The Raven & Her Victory

      3. The Curse Is Come Upon Me, Cried

      Author’s Note: The Curse Is Come Upon Me Cried

      4. Of War & Wings

      Author’s Note: Of War & Wings

      About the Author

      Also by Tansy Rayner Roberts

      Sheep Might Fly

      Love & Romanpunk

      Preview: Musketeer Space

      Please Look After This Angel

      1.

      The Sydney job only lasted a few months, and she was miserable for most of them. Kerry remembers sitting on the train, surrounded by mechanical clatters and whirrings. Dull back fences and walls trailed past her window until one leapt out at her, bright and fierce with its graffiti tags and artwork.

      One phrase, spray-painted into her retinas.

      PLEASE LOOK AFTER THIS ANGEL.

      2.

      James and Kerry have been ‘going out’ for three years now, and they seem to have left it too late to move in together. She’s losing him, she can feel it. Whenever she tries to have a conversation about the future, about where they are going (if they are going anywhere) he circles around to the one thing in his life that he is completely certain about.

      It’s the angel.

      He saw it once, when he was eighteen, on his first pub crawl. He remembers the pub perfectly – the sign outside, the sticky floors, the stupid joke toilet signs. He remembers the small, quiet figure in the corner, its wings tucked around itself as it nursed a lemon, lime and bitters.

      It was an angel, he insists. It had a halo and everything, hovering several inches off its hair. No, it wasn’t someone in fancy dress. No, it wasn’t a religious experience. It was, simply, an angel. It looked sad, and he wanted to say something clever, to cheer it up. But he couldn’t think of anything until later.

      James has never been able to find that pub again. Sometimes on the weekends, or after work, he goes walking, and Kerry knows he is trying to find it, trying to prove to himself that he really saw what he thinks

      he

      did

      .

      Every time he sets out to find it, and fails, she loses another piece

      of

      him

      .

      Perhaps there was nothing there to

      begin

      with

      .

      3.

      The second hand bookshop job is temporary, or that’s what Kerry tells herself. It’s not exactly using her degree,

      is

      it

      ?

      She’s happy there. She likes to shelve books, and to sort through the boxes that get donated to them. A lot more donations than there used to be – everyone ditched their libraries in favour of a Kindle. She likes the smell of the place, and the customers.

      It was the last place she expected to see an angel. But there he is in the foreign literature section, perusing French and Belgian novels. It’s a shock to her – she can’t stop staring

      at

      him

      .

      Him, she thinks. Almost certainly him. He wears an old fashioned brown suit, very grandfatherly, though his face seems quite young and his hair is blond, not greying at all. He has a lived-in look about him, and she might have thought him nothing but the usual sort of customer, if not for

      the

      halo

      .

      James was right. When you see it, you know it’s not a trick, or a costume. There’s no denying the glow about his hair, and the light that floats out above his head. It makes her feel warm down to her feet. Is this a religious experience, or the early stages of psychosis? It’s not like

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