Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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Deliver me from evil and deliver me from darkness...deliver me from Bobby Cross.

Rose Marshall has dared the Ocean Lady and come out the other side—but what does she have, and what has she paid? Her journey's barely starting, and she has a long, long way to go before she has a chance in hell of making it to harbor. And once you're dead, risking your life becomes a lot more terrifying...

Issue 53 of The Edge of Propinquity is live, and with it, the fifth of the Sparrow Hill Road stories is available. "El Viento del Diablo" takes us back into the daylight America, where Rose is running ragged...and a man named Bobby Cross is running too close for comfort. Deliver me from evil and deliver me from darkness, and deliver me, O Lord, from Bobby Cross.

There are a lot of stories trapped and tangled in the twilight. This is only one of them. But it's the one I have to tell.

Give a girl a ride?

Tags: short fiction, sparrow hill road
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Good episode.

Y'know, I watch for her when I'm driving long distances at night. Haven't seen her yet. But there's an old jacket in my back seat for anyone who needs it.
That's good of you.
If I ever do pick her up, we'll definitely stop for a cheeseburger and fries at some truck stop.
GLEE!!! :-D

<*goes to read*>
Yay!
... Oh, honey... That just about made me cry, at the end there. <*sniffle*>
Rose does inspire a sadly high body count.
Actually, it wasn't the body-count that did it. It was that she was taking them home.
Yup, that's what did it for me as well. It was almost a happy ending, in a reverse sort of way. A 'right' ending, sort of sad and happy at hte same time.

I really want to read these stories as a collection...
I really want to read these stories as a collection...

Seconded.

You've inspired me to start watching the roads/roadsides.

AngelVixen :-)
Good. :)
I hope that I can make that happen, once the year is out!
That's her job.
Wow, okay, I just read through all 5 chapters so far.

I'm... creeped out by how many aspects of it seem familiar to me, and I don't mean the plots of the stories. I suppose, knowing it's you, that I shouldn't be, but there you go.

*shiver*

And of course, I'm up WAY too late. Goodnight!

--Ember--
Goodnight!
Seconding the comment above; reading them all at once is supremely creepy, in the best way. Hope you're having a fab weekend at MarCon!
I did, and thank you so much!
Note to self: read this tomorrow.

Note to Seanan: just finished reading FEED. Do you have any idea how annoying it is to have family members interrupting you every five minutes through the last 60 pages when all you want to do is to feel the emotions that you (the author) make come to life? Even when that emotion is "ball your eyes out."

...

That was the most amazing thing I've read in AGES and that includes all of my favorite books.

Must find the spoilers post you posted and discuss there.
Awwww, thank you!
It's been a week. Are you at some weird (contagiously fun) convention or something?
Marcon! It ate the world, but spat me out at the last moment as a reward for good behavior.