Ian West
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"She danced back and forth across the camp and the dance was like a word he had known once and lost. Something in his heel wanted to keep her time. It could not. The fire leaned after her when she passed it. Her shadow came a half beat behind her and did not always do as she did. In the trees the crow turned its head to follow. The light gave her to him in pieces. The damp line of her neck. The swell of her chest. Her bare feet striking the ground without any sound at all. Her hair come loose and swinging and catching the fire and burning with it."
-Continuance, A Novella
About
Ian West writes about small towns with big secrets — quiet corners of America where something strange is always glowing just past the tree line. His books share a single connected universe, the Cataclysm Saga, that stretches from the swamps of Vermont to the plains of Minnesota and beyond. His debut, Continuance, is available now; his first novel, Bannon '79, arrives soon. When he isn't writing, he's logging miles on long runs or keeping two old machines alive — a '66 Chevy pickup and a '78 Trans Am, both of which have been known to appear in his fiction. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.