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eBook Category: Dark Fantasy Year's Best Science Fiction Honorable Mention, Best New Horror Inclusion, Year's Best Fantasy Honorable Mention, Year's Best Horror Honorable Mention, Nebula Award(R) Preliminary Ballot Nominee
eBook Description: Troy's tattoo was just skin art--a meaningless little good-luck token for the rest of his tour in Vietnam. As it turned out, though, the luck it brought him was real--and couldn't be taken back.

eBook Publisher: Rosetta Solutions, Inc., Published: Peter S. Beagle’s Immortal Unicorn, edited by Peter S. Beagle & Janet Berliner, HarperPrism , 1995
Fictionwise Release Date: November 2001

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1967

G.I. BOB'S QUALITY TATTOOS the neon sign declared, luring customers through the Bay Area summer fog with a tropistic intensity. Tucked between a laundromat and an appliance repair shop in lower Oakland, the studio was the only place of business on the block open at that hour. Troy Chesley scanned right and left as if he were on patrol, dropping into a firefight stance behind a parked car as a thin, dark-skinned man strode up to the nearest intersection.

"Easy, man." Roger, Troy's companion, grabbed him by the collar and yanked him toward the door. "We ain't back in 'Nam yet."

Troy's cheeks flushed. He had been doing things like that all night. No more booze. It wasn't every grunt that got a furlough back to the mainland in mid-tour, even if it happened for the worst of reasons. The least he could do was stay sober enough to acknowledge he was out of the war zone.