title: Copper and Stone: stories
author:  Bethany Snyder 
description: Bethany Snyder is a voiceover artist, a half-marathoner walker and coach, a cookie connoisseur, a Maine enthusiast, a photographer, and a serious pop-culture junkie. But above all, she is a writer. Born and raised in Penn Yan, located in the heart of the Finger Lakes in Western New York, Bethany received her bachelors in Creative Writing from Bradford College in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
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  COLD COPPER TEARS ****
  
  
  Glen Cook
  
  
  A SIGNET BOOK
  
  
  NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY ****
  
  
  
  
  
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  THERE THREE GUYS WALKING ON AIR-all of them in old-time armor. As they started
  throwing thunderbolts, I headed for the safety of the manor. I hit the doorway
  and skidded to a halt. Something far worse than three guys in armor was
  tearing its way in through the roof, going at it like the place was made of
  paper. A big, shiny, ugly, purplish-black face like that of a fangy gorilla
  glared through the hole. Then it started ripping the hole bigger.
  
  
  It dropped through the hole, landed at the far end of the pool room, fifty
  feet away. It was twelve feet tall, had six arms, and might have been a
  monster straight off one of those temple coins that had suddenly been
  appearing around town. It wavered as though I was seeing it through an intense
  heat shimmer. Or as if it didn't know if it wanted to be a six-armed gorilla
  or something even uglier.
  
  
  And then my time for peaceful observing