A Girl's Guide to Guns and Monsters - Martin Harry Greenberg [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Introduction
THE DRIFTER
OUR LADY OF THE VAMPIRES
BEST FRIENDS
ELIZABETH AND ANNA’S BIG ADVENTURE
LUPERCALIA
MURDER, SHE WORKSHOPPED
HEART OF ASH
JIANG SHI
NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO
SIGNED IN BLOOD
BROCH DE SHLANG
THE WOOLY MOUNTAINS
INVASIVE SPECIES
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ABOUT THE EDITORS
“I’m your best bet if you want to survive this little adventure.”
“Open the portal that’ll take us home.” Vicki Nelson gave Ren points for looking in the right direction but, given her rising panic, didn’t wait for a response. “You can’t, can you? Not from this side.”
“We weren’t going to go back.” Ren waved a trembling hand at the corpse and the scavengers and the sky of red stars. “It wasn’t supposed to be like this!”
“Yeah, well, surprise.” A scavenger with more appetite than survival instinct tried to take a piece out of the top of her head; Vicki crushed it almost absently, wiping her hand on her jeans as she watched the circling birds. Some of them were flying fairly high. They’d be visible as silhouettes against the night to anyone—or anything—with halfway decent vision. It reminded her of lying on the sofa with Mike, soaking up his warmth, and watching television.
“They’re going to draw other scavengers. The way vultures do. Maye other predators. We have to find cover.”
“How do you know that?”
“Animal Planet.”
“But you’re a . . .” Even though she was clearly fine with poking holes into other realities, Ren couldn’t seem to say it.
This was neither the time nor the place for denial.
“Vampire. Nightwalker. Member of the bloodsucking undead.” Vicki frowned, trying to remember the rest and coming up blank. Three would have to do. “I have cable. And I’m your best bet if you want to survive this little adventure.”
—from “No Matter Where You Are” by Tanya Huff
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