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Perfect Circle [Extended Excerpt] [MultiFormat]
eBook by Sean Stewart
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eBook Category: Mainstream Nebula Award(R) Finalist
eBook Description: Sean Stewart's much-anticipated eighth novel is a dark, funny, fast-moving thriller that you won't want to put down. Stewart was the lead author behind the innovative interactive web game known as "The Beast" (inspired by the film A.I.,) which became a break-out cult hit. He is the winner of the Arthur Ellis, Aurora, and World Fantasy awards, and the author of The New York Times Notable Books Mockingbird and Resurrection Man. William "Dead" Kennedy has problems. He's haunted by family, by dead people with unfinished business, and by those perfect pop songs that you can't get out of your head. He's a 32-year-old Texan still in love with his ex-wife. He just lost his job at Pet-Co for eating cat food. His air-conditioning is broken, there's no good music on the radio, and he's been dreaming about ghost roads. When Will's cousin ("My dad married your Aunt Dot's half-sister") calls in the middle of the night about a dead girl haunting his garage, it seems like an easy way to make a thousand dollars. But nothing is ever that simple, especially when family is involved. Will's mother is planning a family reunion of epic proportions. Will's ex-wife is married to a former Marine. His twelve-year-old daughter Megan thinks Will needs someone to look after him. And recently his dead relatives seem to want something from him.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: 2004
Fictionwise Release Date: January 2005
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [259 KB], eReader (PDB) [44 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [32 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [29 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [87 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [104 KB], hiebook (KML) [75 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [61 KB], iSilo (PDB) [26 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [33 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [46 KB]
Words: 9526
Reading time: 27-38 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
Chapter 1
I woke up sweaty and shaking. Tense. I had been dreaming in black and white again. Always a bad sign.
I looked at the clock display on my VCR, but the glowing blue numbers just flashed--00:00---00:00--00:00--
Time unstuck and drifting. That lost feeling, like when you're a kid with a fever and the night breaks around you forever.
I lay on my dingy mattress in my tiny living room, body humming with the premonition of something terrible about to happen. That copper taste in my mouth. Eyes wide in the darkness. Waiting.
The phone rang and I grabbed for it. "Hello?"
"DK?"
"Who the hell is this?" Nobody had called me DK in ten years, not since my cousin AJ died. DK had been her nickname for me.
"It's your cousin, Tom. Tom Hanlon. My dad married your Aunt Dot's half-sister."
I dredged up a vague memory of a strident woman in puffball hair lecturing my Uncle Waylon on the evils of drink while he sipped Coors Lite from a paper cup. "Okay. I think I got it."
"Now we're talking," Tom Hanlon said. "Do you remember me at all?"
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