Wily Writers Presents: "Jack's Lament" by Joan De La Haye, a horror story that introduces the main character in Joan's novel SHADOWS. It contains adult situations. In it, a demon is born when a perverse and malevolent form of retribution takes Jack's wife and unborn child from him. In a further act of revenge, Jack is cursed to roam outer worlds, as well as earth, as a servant of the Council.