A Soft Barren Aftershock (Flyboy707/Jerry eBooks) (2011 Edition)

I created this eBook to

gather as many of F. Paul Wilson’s short stories and novellas as possible.

All the stories contained

within this exhaustive collection were either scanned by me from originally

published print-material that I owned; or in one instance, converted from an

electronic version (that I had previously purchased).

As such, some of these versions

may differ slightly than what may be found in newer collections/versions; as

the author (or his editor) decided to “update” some portions of the

text/words/spelling etc. of some of the stories.

Rest assured, I present every

single word of these stories/novellas as originally written by the author –

nothing has been altered or omitted.

For technical reasons, I

omitted the author’s two published screenplays from my collection. These two

items just did not “translate” well into the eBook format very well (without

losing the author’s original layout/intent of how the screenplay was to be

read).

I also decided not include

several of the author’s longer novellas for two main reasons: 

1) After scanning/cleaning

and formatting them, most of them were near or over 100 pages long; and for

space considerations decided against including them 

2) Many of the novellas were

also word-for-word excerpts from existing novels, and again, for space

considerations (as well as not wanting to duplicate text), I decided not to

include them here. 

I formatted all the material

to display, as best possible, on current eReaders, while keeping the original

layout design and format as closely as possible.  It is essential to understand that due to the

variables of the eReaders, how the owner has the device set to display text and

the software (or settings in Calibre) someone uses to convert my epub into a

different file format – the individual “reading experience” may vary from my

original intent.

One note about the spelling,

punctuation and grammar found in this eBook. Due to the author’s writing styles

in many of these stories, his use of specific medical terms/terminology, and

his reproducing of certain dialects/ways his characters speak, there may appear

to be several errors that I missed during the format phase of constructing this

eBook. I strove to correct all spelling and punctuation errors created during

the “scanning” phase. I apologize for any minor errors I may have missed.

Finally, it is my sincerest

desire that you have the best possible reading experience when reading these

wonderful stories from F. Paul Wilson. 

Flyboy707

October, 2011