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Vestigial Organs

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by R. Overwater

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Vestigial Organs A Pictureword Illustrated Tale Art by Aaron Navrady Her greatest performance may be humanity's last. [1920] New York stands at the edge of a technological revolution. Silent films are giving way to talking pictures, fashionable audiences are abandoning yesterday's entertainments, and Helen knows that her exceptional talent deserves more than a lifetime behind the keyboard of a theatre organ. She has worked too hard to surrender her ambitions now. Beyond the glittering theatres and concert halls, however, something incomprehensible is approaching. The Miasma has already devastated European cities. Its victims are neither conventionally alive nor simply dead. Human flesh merges with the physical world in transformations as impossible as they are horrifying. When the phenomenon reaches New York, Helen's carefully ordered world collapses. Yet within the chaos she begins to perceive something no one else has recognized: the Miasma responds to the structures of music. The performance she believed would secure her professional future may instead become the first conversation between humanity and an intelligence beyond the known world. Rich in period atmosphere and unsettling imagination, Vestigial Organs explores the boundary between artistic genius and cosmic terror. About the Author: R. Overwater is a sci-fi, fantasy and crime writer based in Calgary, Alberta. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Besides studying fiction under noted Canadian authors at UBC, he also studied graphic novel writing under critically acclaimed graphic novelist Sarah Leavitt. As a musician, his song “The Ballad of Pilsner Beer,” originally recorded by the band Agriculture was covered by actor Paul Spence of FUBAR fame. [MORE] Reviews: Forthcoming.

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