Black Leg: A Tor.com Original
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Haunted by stories he hears while on jury duty, a documentary filmmaker finds himself in an abandoned mall at the dead of night.
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Glen Hirshberg
GLEN HIRSHBERG received his B.A. from Columbia University, where he won the Bennett Cerf Prize for Best Fiction, and his M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Montana. His first novel, The Snowman’s Children, was a Literary Guild Featured Selection. His collection, The Two Sams, won three International Horror Guild Awards and was named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly. Hirshberg has won the Shirley Jackson Award and been a finalist for the World Fantasy and the Bram Stoker Awards.
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Black Leg - Glen Hirshberg
My fault. As usual.
Documentary filmmaker,
the prosecutor said, not looking at me or any of the other prospective jurors. He wasn’t even looking at his legal pad, only the defendant. Even so, everyone in the room felt the weight of his glare. What sort of documentaries would those be?
Can prospective jurors plead the fifth? I wondered. Then I thought maybe in this case the truth really would set me free. Ghost hunting,
I mumbled. I followed these two—
Ghost hunting,
said the lawyer. His smile didn’t even reach his mouth, let alone his eyes. And it was definitely meant to intimidate me. Or else he was just amused. "So you’re not planning to make a film about this case,