Christine Cody - Author  ISBN 9780441020621 | 336 pages | 26 Jul
2011 | Ace | 6.49 x 4.29in | 18 - AND UP Additional Formats:
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Bloodlands An Excerpt from Bloodlands  When I saw the stranger
weaving through the newly settled dusk on my visz monitor, he
looked like a lie—a mirage, half wavering fantasy, half dust in
my eyes. Chaplin didn't even believe me when I told him about
it, but then again, he knew that I'd stayed partway sane only
because of one altered version of the truth or another. It
always took him some good thought before he ever put stock in
what I did or said, and I wouldn't blame him, or anyone else,
for that. Lies and omissions were how we lived out here in the
nowheres. It was how we made sure strangers like this one on the
visz never paid mind to us.  We lied about reality to survive.
Hell, I would lie to anyone, even you.  When I grabbed my old
revolver from the wall arsenal, that must've lent some credence
to the situation for Chaplin