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    A Ragman's Vow
    A Ragman's Vow
    A Ragman's Vow
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    A Ragman's Vow

    By Brent Knowles

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    Dan, the creator of a comic series featuring a dark superhero, has never recovered from the death of his young son and the loss of his wife, she blaming him for their son's death. But when Dan sees her in the company of a known drug dealer, real life and fantasy merge as he tries to rescue her.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrent Knowles
    Release dateJan 14, 2011
    ISBN9781458097545
    A Ragman's Vow
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    Brent Knowles

    Brent Knowles is a writer, programmer, and game designer. He worked at the role-playing game studio BioWare (Baldur's Gate 2, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire, Dragon Age) for ten years, during most of which he was a Lead Designer/Creative Director. Now he writes full time. He has been published in a variety of magazines including Neo-Opsis, On Spec, and Tales of the Talisman. In 2009 Brent placed first in the third quarter of the Writer’s of the Future Contest. He is also a member of SF Canada: Canada’s National Association for Speculative Fiction Professionals

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      ‘A Ragman’s Vow’ by Brent Knowles is a wonderful tale of magical realism, and the best tale in this installment of On Spec. Dan is the creator of a comic book featuring Ragman, a dark superhero who draws his power from the misery of the slums… -- Jim Stratton at The Fix

      The stories of the artist Dan and his character Ragman are told in neat parallel with an ending that may be fantasy and may be luck… -- Eamonn Murphy at SFCrowsnest

      A RAGMAN'S VOW

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      This story was originally published in On Spec #73.

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      A Ragman's Vow

      (Ragman, Issue #14) Below the slum known as the Labyrinth, Ragman sits atop an overturned crate, half submerged by sewage. Rats cover him.

      Stop with the puppy dog eyes, Ragman says to them, you won't make me feel guilty about leaving the boy...

      The cab stopped. Dan's fake-leather shoes stepped into dry snow, and he thought of how his own life seemed to parallel the city's seasons, in pattern, if not in fact. The hustle and bustle of a

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