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I just thought this was cool - my first review. From the Internet Review of Science Fiction : (Reviewed by Lois Tilton) "Roaring Seraph, Singing Thunder" by Daniel Brugioni The narrator and his wife once promised each other that they would never forego any opportunity to travel. Thus they found themselves accepting the offer of the Reverend Benjamin Garza to be his companions in his Equatorial Africa mission, deep in the jungle at the edge of the Mbini River. But instead of the Reverend, they are met with a note: "I am restless and blind. I sing! Death sings within my very depths." This is an ambiguous fantasy, as the narrator who sees the ghosts of the local boatmen is blind. If this were science fiction, I would question how the disease has spread so rapidly in a region where it is supposed to be near eradication, and how it could have killed so quickly. Only on the assumption of madness does any of this make literal sense, but the images, in their madness, are co