Toasted Cake 85: Shadow Falls, Echo Fades by Jeff Stehman

I am shadow. Michael repeated his mantra like a ward. I am night personified. I am as constant as time. 

Jeff lives with his wife in the woods of Northern Minnesota, where he divides the seasons into canoeing, cross-country skiing, and those few weeks in between when his writing output improves. His fiction has appeared in Intergalactic Medicine Show, Jim Baen's Universe, and the Unidentified Funny Objects anthology from UFO Publishing.