
Clouds: An SF/Horror Story by Wayne Kyle Spitzer

| In retrospect, I wish I’d continued recording, for what I saw in that instant is difficult to describe, even now. Suffice it to say that it had a body like that of a manta ray—upon who’s tail the balloonist had been impaled—or a manta ray combined with a bat, albeit huge, and that it was covered with a kind of camouflage which reminded me of pictures I’d seen of Jupiter—just a roil of purples and pinks and browns. I suppose that was when it first hit me: the possibility that there might be a connection between this thing and the Jupiter 6 probe. That the probe might have brought something back, even if it had just been a sprinkling of microbes on its surface.
And then there was an explosion somewhere above us, the concussion of which rocked our balloon, and we all looked up to see Gas Monkey—my God, it was like the sun!—on fire; and yet that wasn’t all we saw, for as it dropped it became evident that there were more of the bat/manta ray things attached, suckling it as it fell, crawling upon it like flies. Then it passed us like some kind of great meteor—its occupants shrieking and calling out—and was gone below, the heat of it still painting our faces, its awful smell, which was the smell of rotten eggs, filling our nostrils.
And then we were just drifting, all of us crouched low in the basket … and the only sounds were those of Karen sobbing and my own pounding heart.  Other Formats...  |
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About The Author...
Wayne Kyle Spitzer
     
Wayne Kyle Spitzer (born July 15, 1966) is an American author and low-budget horror filmmaker from Spokane, Washington. He is the writer/director of the short horror film, Shadows in the Garden, as well as the author of Flashback, an SF/horror novel published in 1993. Spitzer's non-genre writing has appeared in subTerrain Magazine: Strong Words for a Polite Nation and Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History.
Other Books By Wayne Kyle Spitzer
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|  Flashback Dawn: Free Teaser Horror

|  Heat Wave 4: The Dinosaur Apocal Horror
|  Napoleon SciFi
|  Comes a Ferryman Fantasy
|  Black Hole, White Fountain Unspecified
|  The Tempter and the Taker Romance
|  The Pierced Veil Romance
|  To the End of Ursathrax Unspecified
|  X-Ray Rider 1 Autobiography
|  X-Ray Rider 2 Autobiography
|  X-Ray Rider 3 Autobiography
|  Algernon Blackwood's The Willows Paranormal
|  Flashback Horror
|  Faraway, Nearby Paranormal

|  That Thing We Killed Young Adult

|  Coffin Road Fantasy

|  Lean Season Horror
|  Killer in the Looking Glass SciFi
|  Behind a Pale Mask Fantasy
|  Red Marillion Horror
|  Wet Bark Horror

|  Flying the Fog Roads of Cascadia Biography
|  How About a Coke and Some Fries? Humor
|  Flashback Dawn 1: "Naaygi" SciFi
|  Flashback Dawn 2: "The Devil's S Horror
|  Enter the Witch Doctor SciFi

|  Flashback Dawn 3: "The Red-Eye S SciFi
|  The Dagger and the Chalise SciFi
|  Flashback Dawn 4: "Charlotte" Horror
|  The Complete X-Ray Rider: Milepo Autobiography
|  The Shadow, the Siren, and the S SciFi
|  Flashback Dawn 5: SciFi
|  Flashback Dawn 6: "Throw Wide th SciFi
|  Flashback Dawn 7: "Generation Ze Horror
|  Seven Tales of Blood and Beauty Horror
|  The Complete Ferryman | The Enti Fantasy
|  Flashback Dawn: The Complete Ser Horror
|  Flashback Dawn Horror
|  The Complete Witch-Doctor (The C SciFi
|  Tales from the Flashback: "Thund Horror
|  The Men | A Tale of Alien Terror Horror
|  Tales from the Flashback: Horror
|  The Men | A Tale of Alien Terror Horror
|  Tales from the Flashback: "The A SciFi
|  Tales from the Flashback: "And L SciFi
|  A Dinosaur is a Man's Best Frien SciFi
|  A Dinosaur is a Man's Best Frien SciFi
|  A Dinosaur is a Man's Best Frien SciFi
|  A Dinosaur is a Man's Best Frien SciFi
|  A Dinosaur is a Man's Best Frien SciFi
|  A Dinosaur is a Man's Best Frien SciFi
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|  A Dinosaur is a Man's Best Frien SciFi
|  A Dinosaur is a Man's Best Frien SciFi
|  Tales from the Flashback Horror
|  Flashback Twilight SciFi
|  The Complete Ank and Williams SciFi
|  The Complete Flashback Saga Horror
|  The Barren: A Tale of Alien Terr Horror
|  Napoleon: A Horror Novel SciFi
|  The Magnificent Bastards: 3 Real SciFi
|  Reigndeer: A Horror Story Horror
|  Dinosaur Apocalypse Horror
|  Demonosaur: A Tale of Blood, the Horror
|  Dinosaur Rampage Horror
|  Dark World: An Epic Fantasy Fantasy
|  Get It Out of Me | A Horror Nove Horror
|  The Boy Who Fell to Earth | A No Autobiography
|  The Girl in Room 22: A Book Abou Fantasy
|  Hunter and Hunted | Horror Stori Horror
|  The Man/Woman War | A Dystopian SciFi
|  Death Scene | Stories That Take Horror
|  Dead World: A Heroic Dark Fantas Fantasy
|  The Quick and the Jurassic Undea SciFi
|  Paladins | A Post-apocalyptic We SciFi
|  'R' is for Revenge: A Dark Fanta Fantasy
|  Clouds: An SF/Horror Story Horror
|  Equinox: A Horror Romance Horror
|  Sadie Horror
|  American Monsters: Horror Storie Horror
|  Country Roads: A Tale of Rural T Horror
|  The Place Horror
|  Tooth and Claw: A Bestiary Horror
|  Golem Horror
|  Crash Dive SciFi
|  Aluka: A Tale of the Witch Docto SciFi
|  4 Wicked Winds: Four New Tales o SciFi
|  Dinosaur War SciFi
|  The Devil Drives a '66 (and Othe Horror
|  The Burning Cathedral of Summer: Horror
|  A Devil's Dictionary: Stories SciFi
|  Heat Wave: The Dinosaur Apocalyp Horror
|  Every Blade of Grass: An Existen SciFi
|  A Portrait of the Witch Doctor a SciFi
|  Heat Wave 2: The Dinosaur Apocal Horror
|  Heat Wave 3: A Flashback Prequel Horror
|  Heat Wave 5: The Dinosaur Apocal Horror
|  Heat Wave 6: The Dinosaur Apocal Horror
|  A Reign of Thunder: The Dinosaur Horror
|  The River Dire SciFi
|  The Boy With the X-Ray Eyes Autobiography
|  Staked Fences SciFi
|  With Hunt: Skirmishes in the Man SciFi
|  13 Thorns: Thirteen tales of tru Horror
|  The Burning: Two New Tales of th SciFi
|  The Dinosaur in the Cage SciFi
|  Phantom Road: Tales of Travel an Horror
|  A Boy and His Dinosaur Young Adult
|  The Island of Doctor Moreau SciFi
|  Peck Horror
|  Death Grader Horror
|  A Taste for Terror: 23 Tales of Horror
|  The War of the Worlds SciFi
|  The Witch Doctors: Tales From th SciFi
|  Empire of the Ants Horror
|  The Food of the Gods Horror
|  Mysterious Island SciFi
|  At the Earth's Core SciFi
|  Vorpal Horror
|  Shadows in the Garden and Other Horror
|  4 More Wicked Winds: Four All Ne Horror
|  The Wendigo (Illustrated by Wayn Horror
|  Dagon and Other Stories Horror
|  Carmilla (Illustrated) Horror
|  Body Politic: Stories of Politic Horror
|  The End: Stories Horror
|  Flashback (28th Anniversary Edit Horror
|  The Lurking Fear and Other Stori Horror
|  Frankenstein: The Original Creat Horror
|  Robert E. Howard's Red Nails Fantasy
|  Conan: Queen of the Black Coast Fantasy
|  Conan: Hour of the Dragon Fantasy
|  A Survivor’s Guide to the Dino Horror
|  A Survivor's Guide to the Dinosa Horror
|  A Survivor's Guide to the Dinosa Horror
|  A Survivor's Guide to the Dinosa SciFi
|  A Survivor's Guide to the Dinosa SciFi
|  Dinosaur Carnage SciFi
|  A Survivor's Guide to the Dinosa SciFi
|  Dark Horses: Nine Writers of the SciFi
|  A Survivor's Guide to the Dinosa SciFi
|  The Once and Future Kings SciFi
|  A Survivor's Guide to the Dinosa SciFi
|  The Lost Country Unspecified
|  Escape From Seattle SciFi
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|  The Lost Country, Episode Two: â SciFi
|  The Lost Country, Episode Three: SciFi
|  The Lost Country, Episode Four: SciFi
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|  The Lost Country, Episode Five: SciFi
|  The Primordial Garden: Stories a SciFi
|  Travels With Gargantua: A Post-A SciFi
|  Thunder Road: Every Journey Has Young Adult
|  Lean Season: Contemporary Tales Horror
|  The Strange Season: The Flashbac SciFi
|  The Lost Country: The Flashback SciFi
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|  The Primordial Garden: The Flash SciFi
|  Napoleon (Silver Edition) SciFi
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|  A Reign of Thunder (Second Editi Horror
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