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shoved bodies out of her way, shrugged off grasping hands. Nothing would stop her from her baby. She had to get to her, had to protect Judy.
    The big plateglass window was barely visible through the crowd of screaming parents and onlookers. They banged on the glass, cursed, shoved and shouted at one another, some crumbling to the floor and weeping.
    Cecilia forced her way through the horde, pressed her hands against the glass and peered in.
    Blood. Blood everywhere.
    Each little cradle had splashes of blood, tiny fleshy remains, sharp bone fragments. Nurses and doctors dashed from cradle to cradle, frantically trying to figure out what to do, what happened.
    My baby…oh please god, my baby.
    And then Cecilia’s eyes landed on Judy. The baby girl sat upright in her pink cradle, splattered with blood. Her big brown eyes landed on Cecilia, and she smiled, wide and red.
    Cecilia smiled back, kissed her fingertips and pressed them to the glass.
    She was a mother now.

About the Author
    Shane McKenzie is the author of many horror novels, novellas and stories, including Fairy , The Bingo Hall , and many more to come.
    He also writes comics for Zenescope Entertainment.
    He wrote the script for a short film entitled M is for Matador , filmed by LuchaGore Productions, which was selected by DraftHouse Films to be included in the DVD The ABCs of Death 1.5 . LuchaGore Productions will be filming a short film based on the first chapter of his novel Muerte Con Carne , entitled El Gigante . He lives in Austin, TX with his wife and daughter.
    www.shanemckenzie.org

Look for these titles by Shane McKenzie
    Coming Soon:
    The Bingo Hall

The clock is ticking!
    A Plague of Echoes
    Â© 2014 Maynard Sims
    A Department 18 Novel
    In London, Department 18 Chief, Simon Crozier, is brutally stabbed and left for dead. Billionaire businessman Pieter Schroeder has laid his first card in a deadly, high-stakes game, a battle that will pit Department 18 against evils both ancient and modern.
    As the secret past of Department 18 comes back to haunt the present day, the team’s future—and Crozier’s life—hang in the balance when they confront an enemy who is powerful, malevolent…and perhaps immortal.
    Enjoy the following excerpt for A Plague of Echoes:
    It was a fine summer’s evening, warm and balmy, with the barest hint of a breeze ruffling the surface of the River Thames. Simon Crozier, Director in Chief of Department 18, dismissed his driver, as he regularly did, giving the man the rest of the night off. Crozier needed a walk to clear his head after a particularly fractious day, and the two-mile trek to his riverside flat seemed the perfect opportunity.
    Walking along the Embankment, he gradually felt the day’s tensions dropping from his shoulders; his breathing became deeper, more relaxed, and he, once again, started to notice the world around him. Under Waterloo Bridge there was a cacophony of skateboarders each trying to outdo each other’s reckless stunts. The queues outside the various restaurants dotted along this stretch of the river were animated and noisy as diners waited to be seated. The book market on the paved piazza at the front of the British Film Institute was doing a lively trade with students searching out research material and tourists looking for paperbacks to fill the empty hours in their hotel rooms.
    London didn’t really change, Crozier thought. He’d been walking this part of the Embankment off and on for the best part of fifteen years and it offered few, if any, surprises. So when the old woman, unseasonably dressed for summer, in a long, tweed coat, approached him and stood, blocking his path, Crozier regarded her with disinterest and made to step around her. When she produced the long, wickedly sharp kitchen knife from beneath the folds of her coat and plunged it into Crozier’s belly, his eyes registered nothing more than mild surprise and his mouth made a small O shape