Authors: Charlie Huston
Skinner (40 page)
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Title Page
Welcome
Epigraph
PROLOGUE: gravity of the sun
PART ONE
bringer of the ball
patriots
agents of taps
repeat and reinforce
arcade
the bruising world
rubble
oddities
PART TWO
energy
memory
maker
burn him
tide of a beating heart
PART THREE
hammer
remnant of the blade
a robot to make her normal
in the world
austerity measures
gamla stan
pogrom
PART FOUR
diagram
lonely house
when the ash leaves the sky
implications of the gun
cathedral
PART FIVE
politics
inevitable
chemotherapy agents
constantly upon her person
encounter killings
a child in his home
afraid to find out
very special education
wonderful scam
horror
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The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright © 2013 by Charlie Huston
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