and "Empty Places and " first appeared in an anthology edited by Joe Lansdale and Pat Lobrutto called and "Razored Saddles. and " and "Empty Places and " is one of my personal favorites, written for my dad who had passed away a few years earlier. I always thought the story would lend itself to a graphic novella. I was lucky enough to find Jeff Austin, an extraordinary artist who was was able to capture the images of the story in all their stark beauty and terror. I hope you enjoy it. ~Gary RaisorPraise for Empty Hauntingly sad. -FANGORIAHeartwarming account of aliens and drifters. -MIAMI'S SUN SENTINELReads like a young Ray Bradbury's short story version of Thomas Wolfe's YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN... -South Florida Science Fiction SocietyThe lonely last journey of a pair of tramps who encounter a spaceship carrying its own manifest of vagrants. -NEW LETTERS MAGAZINEPoignant portrait of aliens... visiting their long-lost home. -TEXAS BOOKS IN REVIEW