Short Stories: The Truth About Owls -Amal El-Mohtar & Shadow Tag- Raymond Khoury

This is a Short Story "Book" Club that focuses on sci fi/fantasy and horror short stories or novelettes. This month we are reading "The Truth About Owls" by Amal El-Mohtar and "Shadow Tag" by Raymond Khoury and Steve Berry. Links to the stories: The Truth About Owls by Amal El-Mohtar: https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/the-truth-about-owls/ (and a link to the backstory about the writing of it: https://strangehorizons.com/fiction/introduction-to-the-truth-about-owls/) Shadow Tag by Raymond Khoury and Steve Berry: https://raymondkhoury.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2015/12/Shadow-Tag.pdf Amal El-Mohtar: is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry, and criticism. Her stories and poems have appeared in magazines including *Tor.com*, *Fireside Fiction*, *Lightspeed, Uncanny, Strange Horizons,* *Apex, Stone Telling,* and *Mythic Delirium*; anthologies including *The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories* (2017)*, The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales* (2016)*, Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories* (2014), and *The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities* (2011)*;* and in her own collection, *The Honey Month *(2010). She is co-author, with Max Gladstone, of the multiple award-winning *This is How You Lose the Time War*. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the *New York Times,* NPR Books and on Tor.com. She has been the New York Times's science fiction and fantasy columnist since February 2018 (from https://amalelmohtar.com/about/) Raymond Khoury: is the New York Times and international bestselling author of eight novels: *The Last Templar*, *The Sanctuary, The Sign, The Devil’s Elixir, Rasputin’s Shadow*, *The End Game,* and his latest, *Empire of Lies* (aka *The Ottoman Secret* in the UK). Before writing novels, Raymond was an architect, then an investment banker, then a screenwriter, where his credits include the hit…