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May 18, 1968

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Mark Kirkbride lives in England. He is the author of The Plot Against Heaven, Game Changers of the Apocalypse and Satan’s Fan Club, originally published by Omnium Gatherum and re-released by Crossroad Press. Game Changers of the Apocalypse was a semi-finalist in the Kindle Book Awards 2019. His stories have appeared in Under the Bed, Sci Phi Journal, Disclaimer Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Titanic Terastructures and So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. Poetry credits include Neon, the London Reader, the Big Issue, the Daily Mirror, Sein und Werden and Horror Writers Association chapbooks. He was shortlisted in the AONB Landscape category of the Ginkgo Prize 2021.

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	Satan's Fan Club 4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Game Changers of the Apocalypse 3.86 avg rating — 28 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Plot Against Heaven 3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	HWA Poetry Showcase Volume III by David E. Cowen (Editor), Marge Simon (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Bruce Boston (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Titanic Terastructures by Jessica Augustsson (Goodreads Author), Christopher R. Muscato, Russell Nichols 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Her curiosity tore at her. “Is it… Are you…” “Yes…?” “Is it you?” she said, breathlessly. He fixed her with his red, alien eyes. “What you mean is, am I the serial killer?” She blinked.”
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“I reinvented myself. I acquired a taste for evil. I found I have a talent for it. And I murdered the old me.”
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“They say the mad live in a world of dreams, or nightmares. I just need to find the way out.”
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“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
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“He waited until he heard sounds of sleep, which didn’t take long. Then he prayed, to the Devil.”
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“I reinvented myself. I acquired a taste for evil. I found I have a talent for it. And I murdered the old me.”
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“but the one thing they’d taught him in the Academy that he already knew from his father was that a man only got as much respect as he gave himself.”
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