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Sixteen Candles [MultiFormat]
eBook by Stephen Leigh
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eBook Category: Science Fiction/Alternate History
eBook Description: Even if you love someone, being trapped in the same tormented body would inevitably send you looking for release.... Yet that was what the Wild Card virus had done to Patty, Evan, and John--three people in love with each other. Three people trapped within each other. Three people looking to become separate once more--or to end the suffering forever. I created several characters for the Wild Cards shared world universe. Oddity was always a favorite, and this was the one time that I had a chance to really examine the character. There are, inevitably, references to other characters and events in other books because of the structure of the shared universe of Wild Cards, but this story focuses on Oddity's troubling issues... and on the concept of the Jumpers (created by Chris Claremont), who possessed the power to "jump" from one body into another, switching bodies with the person who once inhabited the body. My, did many of us Wild Card authors come to despise the Jumpers.... Like most Wild Cards tales, this story is not for the squeamish or easily offended.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: One-Eyed Jacks--Wild Card 8, ed. George R.R. Martin, 1991
Fictionwise Release Date: March 2005
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [363 KB], eReader (PDB) [61 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [49 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [45 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [97 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [116 KB], hiebook (KML) [119 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [77 KB], iSilo (PDB) [41 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [51 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [79 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [69 KB]
Words: 14727
Reading time: 42-58 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
Three blocks away from the Dime Museum, the clock tower of the Church of Christ the Joker tolled midnight.
"Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us. Happy birthday, dear Oddity, happy birthday to us."
The voice was off-key and cracked. "Look at the present I brought us," it said.
The fencing mask lent a shimmering distance to the heavy .38 cupped in Oddity's hand. Flecks of light from the Jetboy diorama ran along the barrel and glimmered wildly from the mask's steel mesh. The interference shattered the harsh brilliance into pale, weak colors like a cheap spectroscope.
Evan could look at the gun and pretend the weapon was just a fantasy, something seen on television. He could almost imagine someone else was lifting it.
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