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New! 52 Tales

Once upon a time, I met a literary agent who told me a great challenge for getting through writer’s block was to try to write one short story every week for a year. It took me almost 6 years to take him up on that advice, but I finally did. Starting on September 8th, I vowed to write 52 stories in 52 weeks, publishing a new one every Friday. At the time I’m writing this, I’m 9 stories deep with 43 still to go. I don’t have these stories available for download as PDFs yet, but you can follow along on Medium.com!

Six Short Stories About Death

Included in this collection:
1. Mary of the Flowers - A gardener takes in a sick young man after a devastating flood.
2. The Death Artist - Alberto Mortelli was renown for orchestrating elaborate, opulent deaths for his elite clientele, until his latest work of art leads him into crisis.
3. The Sound of Nowhere - Jimmy’s ghost can’t move on until Jimmy completes a mysterious job.
4. The Gilded Palace Hollywood Hotel - Sandra Jane was found shot in the head in the swimming pool, but which of the hotel’s inhabitants did the deed?
5. The Parable of Venison - A salesman posing as a homeless hippie meets a young woman who believes herself trapped in an endless Michael Jackson music video.
6. No Exit - Nothing in this club is legal: not the parties, not the drugs, and certainly not the suicides.