The Forlorn

By Freer, Dave

Book Id: WPLBN0000635277
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 1.31 MB.
Reproduction Date: 2004

Title:	The Forlorn
Author:	Freer, Dave
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Language:	English
Subject:	Science fiction, Fantasy & science fiction, Pulp literature
Collections:	Baen Library Collection
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Publisher:	Baen Publishing Enterprises


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Excerpt
Excerpt: Chapter 1 Port Tinarana was like an old, decaying tart, her face lined with a myriad of streets and alleys, inexpertly caked with a crude makeup of overhanging buildings. The alleyways seemed to grow narrower and more choked in filth with the passing of each year. Judging by the ankle-deep slush, this dead end hadn?t had the garbage cleared in the last three hundred of those years. And in a few minutes his body would become yet another once-human part of it. He shrank back against the cold, oozing stones of the overhanging wall. The night haze of fog and coal smoke streamered in twisted eddies about the ragged boys. They were vague, almost ethereal, except for the silver-pale lines of low held knives, moving in slow arcs as they closed in.