TY - SOUND AU - Hill,Joe AU - Hill,Joe AU - Hill,Joe AU - Hill,Joe AU - Hill,Joe AU - Mulgrew,Kate AU - Wheaton,Wil AU - Lang,Stephen AU - Boutsikaris,Dennis AU - Hill,Joe TI - Strange weather: four short novels SN - 9780062694454 AV - PS3608.I4342 S77 2017ab U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2017/// CY - [New York] PB - Harper Audio, HarperCollins Publishers KW - Cameras KW - Fiction KW - Castaways KW - Nails and spikes KW - Police, Private KW - Paranormal fiction KW - lcgft KW - Short stories KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - Audiobooks N1 - Title from web page; Compact discs; Snapshot --; Aloft --; Rain --; Loaded; Read by Joe Hill, Wil Wheaton, Kate Mulgrew, Stephen Lang, Dennis Boutsikaris N2 - "Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap. In "Aloft," a young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump. . . and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero's island of roiling vapor that seems animated by a mind of its own.In "Rain," on a seemingly ordinary day in Boulder, Colorado, the clouds open up in a downpour of nails--splinters of bright crystal that shred the skin of anyone not safely under cover--and this apocalyptic event escalates, as the deluge of nails spreads out across the country and around the world. In "Loaded," a mall security guard in a coastal Florida town courageously stops a mass shooting and becomes a hero to the modern gun rights movement. But under the glare of the spotlights, his story begins to unravel, taking his sanity with it. When an out-of-control summer blaze approaches the town, he will reach for the gun again and embark on one last day of reckoning ER -