title: Burnt Black Suns: A Collection of Weird Tales
author:  Simon Strantzas 
description: "<span>In this powerful new collection of short stories, fallible characters trip over their feet of clay and sprawl into encounters with horrors beyond their comprehension. Strantzas nimbly balances sympathetic characters humanized by their flaws with horrors on a cosmic scale so vast that they mock the very notion of human significance. The stories in this book abound with references to the work of H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, and Robert W. Chambers, and Strantzas deftly demonstrates his ability to hold his own with them."</span>
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  # Found At Blazing Star
  
  
  ### Bret Harte
  
  
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  The rain had only ceased with the gray streaks of morning at
  
  
  Blazing Star, and the settlement awoke to a moral sense of
  
  
  cleanliness, and the finding of forgotten knives, tin cups, and
  
  
  smaller camp utensils, where the heavy showers had washed away the
  
  
  debris and dust heaps before the cabin doors. Indeed, it was
  
  
  recorded in Blazing Star that a fortunate early riser had once picked
  
  
  up on the highway a solid chunk of gold quartz which the rain had
  
  
  freed from its incumbering soil, and washed into immediate and
  
  
  glittering popularity. Possibly this may have been the reason why
  
  
  early risers in that locality, during the rainy season, adopted a
  
  
  thoughtful habit of body, and seldom lifted their eyes to the rifted
  
  
  or india-ink washed skies above them.
  
  
  "Cass" Be