Mama Luanda was a master of sympathetic magic, an old time Voodun, a Hoodoo woman as her mama would say, and she's got a bone to pick with Baptist preacher Reverend Ike Larou. The good reverend calls her a witch. A whore. A Satanist. That's all about to change... Apex Publications is pleased to bring one of the masters of hardcore horror into the Alien Shots program—Wrath James White. About the Wrath James White is a former world class heavyweight kickboxer, a professional kickboxing and mixed martial arts trainer, distance runner, performance artist, and former street brawler who is now known for creating some of the most disturbing works of fiction in print. Wrath’s most recent novels are The Resurrectionist and Yaccub’s Curse. He is also the author of Succulent Prey, The Book of a Thousand Sins, His Pain and Population Zero. He is the co-author of Teratologist, co-written with the king of extreme horror, Edward Lee. In 2008, Apex Publications published ORGY OF SOULS, a horror novella co-authored by Wrath James White and Maurice Broaddus. SHORT Sympathetic Magic 1500 words His fingers were long and lithe like those of a pianist. Even as she sliced through them one by one and watched them tumble to the floor, Mama Luanda could not help but marvel at their beauty. She could not remember giving the doll such beautiful hands. She wondered if he would have been flattered. They were the most perfect hands she had ever made. Flawless, right down to the fingerprints and the love line that ran from where his index finger had been all the way to his wrist. She couldn’t remember ever making a doll with hands so lovely. In fact, she didn’t remember ever creating such a realistic doll. No way was she losing her touch. If anything, she was getting better. This was the best one she had ever created. Life-sized and anatomically correct. It even bled. Only, she did not remember making it. She didn’t even know how she could have made such a thing. Perhaps the spirits had guided her hands while she was in one of her trances.