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eBook Category: Horror
eBook Description: Something worse than the bitter cold stalks the winter streets of Moscow.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: 1999
Fictionwise Release Date: May 2005

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Words: 3565
Reading time: 10-14 min.
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When you walk the streets of Moscow, though you may not know it, you walk among the dead. In every city there lies a risk, but if you treat the uncertainty dispassionately, with just a jot of sang-froid, then you survive. In the heart of the New Russia, in the middle of winter, there are many such risks. I learned that one truth. I also learned another, darker truth.

The first time I arrived in that chancre of a city, the sun shone. The light was opalescent, milky with the haze that comes from cold, and the streets were paved with dirt. Snow lay piled high above the wrecks that people had simply abandoned by the side of the main highway to the city. I asked my driver, and the explanation was simple. To get a new car costs less than trying to fix the old one. The New Russians have a practicality born of desperation in their new-found freedom. The signs are everywhere. They can't get salt or sand, so they grit the roads with earth. If something breaks, they leave it; it's cheaper to let dead things lie.