title: Stories Told By Flashlight
author: Mark Stewart
description: Mark Allyn Stewart has a degree in film from Webster University in St. Louis but what he really always wanted to do is write. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Hand of God series, which began with his first novel, Against This Vast Army.
zlib_text: Invasion
      
  by
      
  Dean Koontz
   
  
     
      Having just about concluded that it was nothing more than the wind and the storm that was upsetting
  the horses - and now they were all leaping and snorting more furiously than ever, as if they were not
  three ordinary nags but a trio of high-strung thoroughbreds - I turned toward the door and quite
  accidentally caught sight of the light which glowed eerily just beyond the only window in the entire
  building. There were two lights, actually, both a warm amber shade and of dim wattage. They
  appeared to pulse and to shimmer - and then they were gone, as if they had never been: blink!
      I hurried to the barn door, slid it open, and stepped into the snow-filled night. The arctic wind
  struck me like a mallet swung by a blacksmith who was angry with his wife, and it almost blew me
  back into the stable row. Switching on the nearly useless flashlight, I bent against the wind and pulled
  the door shut behind me. Laboriously, cautiously, I inched around