Fire in the Firefly (34 page)

One Night in Mississippi

by Craig Shreve

One Night in Mississippi
 is the story of a young activist named Graden Williams, who was brutally murdered in Civil Rights–era Mississippi. After the perpetrators were charged but quickly released, Graden's brother, Warren, drifted aimlessly for decades, estranged from the rest of his family and struggling with guilt over his brother's death. But when the U.S. Justice Department begins re-opening cases like Graden's more than forty years later, Warren is determined to avenge his brother and bring his killers to justice.

A phoned-in tip after a television appearance leads Warren to a remote town in northern Ontario, where he comes face-to-face with Earl Olsen, the only murderer still at large, who turns out to be very different than what Warren had expected.

The Hundred Hearts

by William Kowalski

Re
turning home after an explosion in Afghanistan, in which he was injured and his best friend killed, Jeremy Merkin is dismayed to find that nothing has changed, and yet everything is different. Living in the basement of a house he shares with his grandparents, mother, and mentally challenged cousin, Henry, Jeremy struggles with constant pain and the lingering psychological effects of the war. A death in the family prompts Jeremy to seek out his institutionalised father, which leads to the discovery of a family secret that will alter his life forever.

When, amidst all the chaos, Henry runs away to New York in search of his mother, Jeremy fears for his safety and races across the country in a desperate search to find him. While in New York, Jeremy's world is altered yet again as more family secrets are uncovered, this time with dreadful consequences.

Copyright © Scott Gardiner, 2016

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All characters in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Editor: Diane Young

Design: Laura Boyle

Cover Design: Laura Boyle

Epub Design: Carmen Giraudy

The quotations on pages 9, 147, and 207 are from Sara M. Lewis and Christopher K. Crastley, “Flash Signal Evolution, Mate Choice, and Predation in Fireflies,” in
The Annual Review of Entomology
, 2008. They are reprinted by permission.

The reprinting of the selected poem, “The Cremation of Sam McGee,” on page 240 is used by the kind permission of M. William Krasilovsky, representing the Estate of Robert W. Service.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Gardiner, Scott, author

Fire in the firefly / Scott Gardiner.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-4597-3331-2 (paperback).--ISBN 978-1-4597-3332-9 (pdf).--
ISBN 978-1-4597-3333-6 (epub)

I.Title

PS8563.A6244F57 2016 C813'.6 C2015-904912-1

C2015-904913-X

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