Winter in the City

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The city.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Noisy crowded and ever in motion the city can be more than a setting-it can be a character as nuanced and as fickle as a human being with as many traits and quirks as the best mapped-out characters. The city can be the ever-present and constant companion (or foe) to the protagonist and antagonist alike. </span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Winter in the City: A Collection of Dark Speculative Fiction </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is an anthology of dark speculative fiction tales set in 18 cities around the world during the bleak-sometimes harsh-season of winter.</span></p><ol><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Paris</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a vagrant artist confronts a terrible truth while traveling across a frozen Seine and the well-walked paths of l'empire de la Mort...</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Children depart on a mystical quest to find their parents among the icy tombs of the Mount of Olives in </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jerusalem...</strong></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the snow-begotten slums of </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Manila</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a young fighter must disobey her family and society to finally find freedom...</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The white-out conditions in </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Brooklyn </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>are not nearly as dangerous as deals made in blood and bone...</span></li></ol><p><br></p><p><br></p>