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EXCERPTS: 

     “... My aunt is known throughout the island as an hechicera.”
     “My Spanish isn't that great but doesn't that mean witch or something?”
     “Goodness no, she's not a bruja. Your Spanish really is lousy. Loosely translated, hechicera means a wizard or a sorceress.”

          —  from “The Hechicera’s Ace” by John Russo

     But Pa was strong, and lickety-quick, and somehow he’d got hold of her hands and told her to be still now, he’s gonna pull her right out, like a splinter from a finger. But suddenly something flashed beneath the ice. Danny could see it just under the thin crust. Something silver and moving faster than Frank’s old jalopy along Suicide Road, heading right for Pa and Sarah. And then . . .

           —  from “Silver River” by Kathryne Kennedy

     “I thought you enjoyed ghost hunting.”
     “Sometimes success warms me, but I don’t enjoy it. It’s a dirty job. Besides, that ghost wasn’t the kind I hunt. It already missed its window.”
     “Huh?”
     “You’ll understand later.”

         —  from “The Ghost Hunter” by Doug Hewitt

     The tallest one opened its mouth, its yawn revealing a long red tongue and two rows of teeth.
     “Teeth in a bird? My god!”
     Their wide leathery wings reminded Carl of a hideous paperback book cover he’d seen. A colorful drawing of a pterodactyl.

          —  from “Dancing in the Shadows” by Gabriele Enyart

     Bridget stared at a bronze tablet she’d just pulled from the excelsior. Three interlocking figures spread across the top, the one on the left a female wearing a crescent moon headdress, the one in the middle, a male holding a sun, and the one on the right, a male with a sun headdress. Two columns of characters, side by side, covered the remainder of the tablet, and one of them looked to be ancient Greek. She didn’t recognize the other.
     “What have you found?” asked Joe.
     “I’m not sure,” she answered.

          —  from “Bridget” by Jennie Helderman

     Alice Dougan’s blue eyes stared fixedly at the ceiling, looking surreal in the flash of the medical examiner’s camera. She looked eerily like a fallen angel; the white sleeves on her outstretched arms like wings and her blonde hair spread out around her like a halo, marred only by a small trickle of blood escaping from one ear. 
     None of it was as shocking to me as the feather.

          —  from “Time of the Nightjar” by Jacquelyn Bartel

CONTENTS: 

Introduction – The Nightbird’s Song by Jeff Dennis       1

The Hechicera’s Ace by John Russo    5

Silver River by Kathryne Kennedy    16

The Ghost Hunter by Doug Hewitt     33

Barn Owl by Jill Lynn Anderson      45

Midnight Writer by Tracy Rud      49

Dancing In the Shadows by Gabriele Enyart     61

The Devil’s Playground by Jedwin Smith     80

Breakthrough by Joyce Reynolds-Ward      97

Chance by Jennifer McKee   113

Spirit Flight by Aubrie Dionne    126

For Russia, For Love by Y. L. Harris    129

Eye of the Beholder by Sherry Haney   144

Garden of Remembrance by Langdon Kennedy   155

Déjà Vu by Emma Melville     160

Bridget by Jennie Helderman     178

Time of the Nightjar by Jacquelyn Bartel      195

Midnight Reflections of the Whippoorwills
 by Krishna Avva    209

A Scent of the Sea by Austin Dyches     220

Where You Eat by Nathan Walpow     232

NIGHTBIRD SINGING IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT by 19 authors

Category:  Adult Fiction, Dark Fantasy, Mainstream

248 pages, 5 3/4" x 8 3/4" 4-color cover

Deluxe Trade Paperback

ISBN-13:  978-0-9819572-0-3
ISBN-10:  0-9819572-0-X  
Pub Date:  September 5, 2009
Cover Price:  $15.00 US, 
                   $$20.00 Canada