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Hunger and Thirst is a short novel of predatory love and its dangerous dance with survival. This is love with teeth.
In a post-apocalyptic America, in a remote desert, two forces of human nature, the predatory and the humane, face each other, in need and in love--Natalie, the queen predator in her valley of the shadow of death, and Jack, who's walking to California with his stray cat, Artie.
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She circled the room and blew out the candles. She took his hand when she came back to him and led him down the short hall to her darker bedroom. Moonlight from the windows showed a neat, stark room with only a white sheet covering the bed.
"I'm so glad you're finally here, Jack. I've been waiting for you a long time."
Kneeling on the bed, facing each other, she pulled his shirt open, popping off the buttons. In the moonlight-marked room, buttons clicked on the floor and rolled away. Jack caught his breath.
No vampires, aliens, or zombies. Caution for incidents of non-standard violence. (25,000 words)
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Previously released as Life on the Earth, this edition includes two stories from the series Matter Is Mostly Space, "Acrolithia" (from Mutants) and "Those To Be Destroyed Are First Shown Love." (from The Arrival of the Overlords).
WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID --
Orson Scott Card, Hugo and Nebula winner: "[Wayne Wightman is] ...one of the names I['ve] learned to look for.... He...is a romantic whose stories confess his belief that individuals can be larger than life, that their decisions can change the world around them."
John Brunner, the legend himself: "Wayne Wightman is agreeable company, both in person and via the printed page. As to the former, I'm afraid you will have to wait the chance to make his acquaintance.... As to the latter, however, now's your chance."
Richard Paul Russo, Philip K. Dick Award winner: "One of Wightman's great strengths is his willingness to go to the edge. He pulls no punches, whether the story is serious or violent or manic. You can count on him to take you places other writers shy away from."
In a post-apocalyptic America, in a remote desert, two forces of human nature, the predatory and the humane, face each other, in need and in love--Natalie, the queen predator in her valley of the shadow of death, and Jack, who's walking to California with his stray cat, Artie.
From the book:
She circled the room and blew out the candles. She took his hand when she came back to him and led him down the short hall to her darker bedroom. Moonlight from the windows showed a neat, stark room with only a white sheet covering the bed.
"I'm so glad you're finally here, Jack. I've been waiting for you a long time."
Kneeling on the bed, facing each other, she pulled his shirt open, popping off the buttons. In the moonlight-marked room, buttons clicked on the floor and rolled away. Jack caught his breath.
No vampires, aliens, or zombies. Caution for incidents of non-standard violence. (25,000 words)
....
Previously released as Life on the Earth, this edition includes two stories from the series Matter Is Mostly Space, "Acrolithia" (from Mutants) and "Those To Be Destroyed Are First Shown Love." (from The Arrival of the Overlords).
WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID --
Orson Scott Card, Hugo and Nebula winner: "[Wayne Wightman is] ...one of the names I['ve] learned to look for.... He...is a romantic whose stories confess his belief that individuals can be larger than life, that their decisions can change the world around them."
John Brunner, the legend himself: "Wayne Wightman is agreeable company, both in person and via the printed page. As to the former, I'm afraid you will have to wait the chance to make his acquaintance.... As to the latter, however, now's your chance."
Richard Paul Russo, Philip K. Dick Award winner: "One of Wightman's great strengths is his willingness to go to the edge. He pulls no punches, whether the story is serious or violent or manic. You can count on him to take you places other writers shy away from."
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