As flames rise from the damp kindling at her feet, Rousse sees a stranger enter the ring of villagers waiting to watch her burn. When the stranger offers her salvation, Rousse must decide if he is an angel sent to save her, or a devil come to claim her soul.

GEOFFREY W. COLE's short fiction has appeared in such publications as
Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Apex, Clarkesworld,
The Blackness Within anthology, and is forthcoming in On Spec and Dark
Recesses. Geoff is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers
of America and Speculative Fiction Canada. He teaches speculative
fiction writing at Vancouver Community College. Visit Geoff at his
website: www.geoffreywcole.com.

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