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Dave Hutchinson is a writer and journalist who was born in Sheffield and now lives in London with his wife and assorted cats. He’s the author of one novel and the novella The Push, which was nominated for the BSFA Award, as well as five collections of short stories. He’s also the editor of the anthology Under the Rose, and the co-editor of Strange Pleasures 2 and Strange Pleasures 3. FROM A DISTANCE, the first thing you saw was the cloud. It rose five thousand feet or more, a perfect vertical helix turning slowly in the sky above Point Zero. Winds high in the atmosphere smeared its very top into ribbons, but no matter how hard the winds blew at lower levels the main body kept its shape. A year ago, a tornado had tracked northwest across this part of Iowa and not disturbed the cloud at all. It looked eerie and frightening, but it was just an edge effect, harmless water vapour in the atmosphere gathered by what was going on below. The really scary stuff at Point Zero was invisible.
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