Shawn Scarber creates web applications for a major telecom company by day, but in his off hours he writes about strange worlds and characters. He lives in North Texas with his daughter and a cat. His work has appeared in The Best of Abyss & Apex, M-Brane SF, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, and he recently released his teenage zombie novella, Restless. He is a Clarion West 2006 graduate and a member of the Future Classics DFW Speculative Fiction Writing Group. More at www.shawnscarber.com.

Clean, Like Water From A Winter's Thaw by Shawn Scarber can be found in Anthology I: A Collection of 8 Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Stories. It's a fantasy story about stolen family, the death of a partner, and a new home born of forgiveness.

More information about Clean, Like Water From A Winter's Thaw and Anthology I, including e-bookstore links and samples, can be found here...