Crossroads
John came to the crossroads at just shy of noon, where a man dressed all in black stared up at another man hanging from a gallows-tree. No, not hanging; he was being hung.
Laura Anne Gilman
Laura Anne Gilman is the author of the Cosa Nostradamus novels, most recently Pack of Lies, and the award-nominated Vineart War trilogy (Flesh and Fire and Weight of Stone), which concludes in October 2011 with The Shattered Vine. Her linked-story collection, Dragon Virus, will be a limited edition hardcover from Fairwood Press in June 2011.
A member of the on-line writers’ consortium BookVew Café, she writes the “Practical Meerkat” advice column for writers on their blog every Friday. Learn more at www.lauraanegilman.net or follow her on Twitter: @LAGilman.