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    The Coma Killings
    The Coma Killings
    The Coma Killings
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    The Coma Killings

    By John Walters

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    Detective Steven Stone has a secret: he is an alien disguised as a human. While searching for missing persons of his own kind, he stumbles onto a group of rogue aliens bent on taking over and using human bodies for their own pleasure, thus killing the humans in the process. Somehow he must foil their plans without becoming one of their victims himself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Walters
    Release dateJun 13, 2011
    ISBN9781458151858
    The Coma Killings
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    John Walters

    John Walters recently returned to the United States after thirty-five years abroad. He lives in Seattle, Washington. He attended the 1973 Clarion West science fiction writing workshop and is a member of Science Fiction Writers of America. He writes mainstream fiction, science fiction and fantasy, and memoirs of his wanderings around the world.

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      The Coma Killings - John Walters

      The Coma Killings

      by

      John Walters

      Published by Astaria Books at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 by John Walters

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold reproduced, or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or if it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the author.

      This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons places or events - except those in the public domain - is purely coincidental.

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      The Coma Killings

      I found the woman in an alley, sprawled on the concrete steps of a loading dock, her feet and legs in a large puddle on which floated a rainbow scum of oil. She appeared to be in her mid-twenties. Her calf-length brown woolen dress was wet from the puddle and from the drizzle that fell in tiny tickling specks. Her shoes were missing; she had probably been dragged there and they had fallen off on the way. Her dark brown hair was tangled and muddy. Her head rested on one of the steps, leaning sideways, tongue lolling out, a rivulet of drool running from the corner of her mouth

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