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Austin Shirey (shy-REE) writes strange and fantastic fiction. He is the author of CITY OF SPORES, and his stories have appeared in such publications as The Saturday Evening Post, MetaStellar, The Dread Machine, and others, as well as in several anthologies.

https://www.austinshirey.com




Stories

City of Spores

City of Spores by Austin Shirey

Welcome to Madripol, city of artists and madmen, city of mushrooms. There’s something wrong with this city. When a strange plague infects Old Town, Johanna Kolibrik thinks the graffiti messages scrawled all over the city might be right. Kolibrik’s got her own problems, though—like paying the bills and keeping her PI business afloat—so when a well-dressed man from New Town offers to double her fee to find his missing wife, she ignores her gut and takes the case. But when she stumbles across a manuscript that shouldn’t exist, Kolibrik finds herself caught up in a vast web of conspiracy that will challenge everything she believes—a conspiracy that could shake the city of Madripol to its very foundations. Because in Madripol, everything is connected …



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