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Three outstanding pieces of short fiction from award-winning science fiction and dream author Make Shainblum, accumulated for the very first time. "Playing Solitaire" - Rachel Steinberg was just a nice Jewish gal from suburban Montreal. She was never really Solitaire. She never called for superhuman powers, nor the relentless, milling cycle of violence and alienation that came with them. Rachel allowed herself a glimmer of anticipation when Carl said he cherished her, when he swore up and down that her secrets didn't scare him. But that was before he observed her glowing like the north legend, before he ran in terror exactly like everyone before him. Most likely not the ideal moment in time for an omnipotent, 3000-year-old bad slumbering under the Island of Montreal to awaken and think about what it should do first. "The Art of Solitude" - Mary-Ann became anxious when her history-player partner used bartending. Nobody with a scintilla of self-respect drank liquor nowadays, it was just so...so...industrial. Not merely was Quent turning their dogs into alcoholics and their apartment into a seedy dive, he was getting back in just how of her fine art. Something had to give, and in this case, it was the regulations of physics. Mary-Ann purchased a top-of-the-line Solitude fold-heart, and retreated to her own private universe to color in tranquility. What could possibly disturb her there? "The Rest Inspector" - Missouri dirt-farmer John Grey got never regretted a sort action in his life, although truth be told, he would have had little enough to regret in any one of is own 55 years. But oh how he wished the milk of individual kindness had been completely drained from him that horrendous, cursed nighttime. With every fiber of his being, with every drop of bloodstream in his body, John Grey wished he previously never found the secret stranger on his prairie. "The Rest Inspector" can be an unofficial sequel to Make Twain's "A Murder, a Enigma and a Marriage", and a top-ten finalist in the International Make Twain Writing Competition, 2001.
