Voice of the Knife — Mel Sterling

Biologist Charles Napier doesn't mind getting lost in a Florida swamp -- it's part of a scientist's job. Logic and training will get him out safely. Except lurking in this swamp, there's a monster Napier's science can't explain...a lonely, exquisite, desperate monster.

--Previously published in the now unavailable Teeth, Long and Sharp anthology, Voice of the Knife is a 28K-word, stand-alone novella.--