The King's Shadow Has No Limits

And he asked himself, again and again: Could these words be true? Dare he even think they might be true?

Below, all about, the lights dwindled. Above, the stars wheeled. And then came the mists from the river. And then the cold wind.

It was with great pride that I published Richard Christian Matheson’s first professional short story. His fiction is understandably influenced by that of his famous father, Richard Matheson, but it certainly heads into its own directions as well. Advertising copywriter, teacher of creative writing, screenwriter, and currently completing his first novel, Richard is a true creator and herein takes to its inevitable conclusion the business of scientific research and organ donors.