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Skylar's eyes filled with a flickering blue light as ghostly flames jetted from her palms, and her screams were lost over the roaring of the blaze. Instinctively, she shook her hands, slapped them against her legs, and then clapped them together to try and extinguish the fire. As her hands touched, the flames vanished. To her astonishment her skin wasn't burned. It wasn't even warm. Sadly, the same couldn't be said for Buster. The dog was a smoking ruin at her feet, one more pile of burnt remains in a world already covered in ash. Her heart broke as she stared down at him. Oh god, she thought. What's happened? What have I done?
"Oh my Lord, girl," a man said behind her. "What did you do?"
Skylar whirled around, her eyes widening in guilt even though she didn't understand what had happened, or how. "Henry, he jumped at me! I don't know why he did it, and I tried to stop him, but..." She fell silent, her thoughts too scrambled to know what more to say. Buster was a dog she'd loved and cared for ever since coming to live on the farm years ago, and without warning, he had attacked her. When she'd held her hands up to ward him off, blue fire had erupted from them and consumed him as though it was a living, ravenous thing. Nothing like that had ever happened to her before, and she couldn't rightly explain what she didn't understand.
Justin R. Macumber is the author of HAYWIRE and A MINOR
MAGIC. When not hard at work on his next story he hosts the popular Dead
Robots' Society podcast, which is a podcast made by writers for writers. He and
his lovely wife live in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex along with a rampaging
pack of dogs and cats that they think of as their children. He is also a
co-host on The Hollywood Outsider, a weekly podcast about movies and
television. Currently he is working on two novels - the horror story STILL
WATER, and the sequel to A MINOR MAGIC entitled A BROKEN MAGIC.
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