"Every word belongs. Every image does its job. Every nuance is there. Please, Ed Bryant, if you have a noir novel in a drawer somewhere, get it out. It could be nothing but perfect."

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An excerpt from While She was Out

The lights, bright and blinding, blasted against her mirrors.

Della stamped the accelerator to the floor.

This was crazy! This didn't happen to people-not to real people. The mall security man's blood in the snow had been real enough.

In the rearview, there was a sudden flash just above the left-side headlight, then another. It was a muzzle-blast, Della realized. They were shooting at her.

"I think writing's hard work. I love seeing the result. I hate most of the process. It'd be really tempting to set a saucer of single malt Scotch out on the back step at midnight and just collect the heap of manuscript pages left in trade by the fairies in the morning." Edward Bryant

An exclusive interview with Edward Bryant

Edward Bryant, multiple winner of the Nebula Award and the American Mystery Award, has published more than a dozen books, including Cinnabar, Wyoming Sun, and (written in collaboration with Harlan Ellison) Phoenix Without Ashes. He has written hundreds of short stories and articles, as well as reviewing extensively for Locus Magazine and Talebones. His stories have been adapted for CBS's The Twilight Zone and Lifetime's The Empty Room. The Baku, a story collection, was recently published by Subterranean Press. Later this year, Cemetery Dance will publish Flirting With Death, a major collection of dark suspense and horror fiction.