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Our fifth story for the month of April 2016 issue 115 is titled Old Friends and is by Garth Nix.

New York Times best-selling Australian writer Garthnix worked as a book public

public relations man and literary agent before launching the

best-selling Old Kingdom series.

His short fiction has been collected and across the wall, tales of the Old Kingdom and

beyond.

His most recent book are two novels written with John Williams

Trouble Twisters the Mystery and Trouble Twisters the Monster

a new standalone novel a confusion of princes and a new collection Sir Harward and Master Fitz. Three Adventures.

Born in Melbourne, he now lives in Sydney, Australia. You can find Garth at his website, Garth-Nix.

So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

I'd been living in the city for quite a while,

lying low, recovering from an unfortunate jaunt

that had turned in the immortal words of my sometime comrade,

Ralsfegg, irredeemably shit shape.

Though I had almost completely recovered my sight, I still wore a bandage around my eyes.

It was made from a rare stuff that I could see through, but it looked like a dense black linen.

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