Blood Entwines (22 page)

Power flowed through him. He closed his eyes and concentrated on the connection with his servile creations. All accounted for, except one, the one that had recently defied him. He would not stand for it. Retribution would be quick. He would destroy them both
.

I would like to thank the Arts Council of Northern Ireland for supporting this project. With special thanks to Damian Smyth for his constant encouragement.

To family, in all its guises.

Caroline Healy lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She writes young adult fiction, literary fiction and short stories. Her work has won several awards and is showcased in journals, literary magazines and short-story collections around the globe. She won the Doire Press International Short Story Award for her collection
A Stitch in Time
. Her fiction appears in
Wordlegs
,
Five Stop Story
,
Irish Short Story
and
Prole Magazine
.

When she's not writing, she's drinking tea, eating chocolate and reading. Her harshest critics are her two cats, Lady Emma and Treble. If they don't like what she has written, they fall asleep across her keyboard.

Bloomsbury Publishing, London, New Delhi, New York and Sydney

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First published in August 2014
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ISBN 978 1 4088 6191 2

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