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“That picture of Maddie is still around. The scratch in the lens fractured her face. The effect left Maddie with two faces: one, the top face, seemed vibrant and intense; the other, bottom face, looked indifferent, aloof. Andre, in his own way, came to love both. Until he died, he kept the picture framed on his nightstand. I thought it strange, almost masochistic. Once, not long before his death, I found Andre asleep on his bedroom floor holding the picture, the corners of the frame digging into his chest.”
“Pretend, he said, that you’re in a museum, that everything here is priceless.”
A special giveaway, just for liking my Facebook author page!
Beginning today, head over to my Facebook author page and give me a Like. Share it with your friends (but only if you really mean it). Make me smile.
At each 100 person milestone (it’s at 81 at the time of this post), I will choose one person at random and send them a special gift!
For the giveaway, I have four copies of Mixer Publishing’s gorgeous anthology, of Love & Death, and one copy of Found Press’ 2011 anthology, FPQ 2011: The Complete Collection (available as an ePub or Mobi).
About of Love & Death, which contains my short stories “Cloisters” and “Based on True Events”:
of Love & Death features award-winning writers Kate Braverman, Kirstin Allio, Myfanwy Collins, Tom Bonfiglio, Danny Goodman, Sam Decker, Daniel Grandbois, and many, many more. Structured in three parts, the anthology first explores the joy and pain of early relationships, then marriage, and finally family. of Love & Death is subtle, profane, tragic, lewd, thrilling, insightful, sad, provocative, painful, hilarious, insane, occasionally murderous, and authentically powerful—capturing the beauty and ugly of real life in all its variations. Fifteen stories in three parts—a rare thematically structured anthology that can be read as a composite novel of life.
About FPQ 2011: The Complete Collection, which contains my novella “Somehow There Was More Here”:
Found Press Quarterly 2011: The Complete Collection contains sixteen exceptional stories that were hand-picked by the Found Press staff and originally published in the four collections released throughout 2011. With a stunning range of voices, the unforgettable narratives included in this anthology will take you on a journey around the world, and pull you from one end of the emotional spectrum to the other.
Please head on over to my Facebook author page, give me a Like, say hello—I have five brilliant anthology copies to give away, so let’s make it to 500!
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I watched as he sang and danced and laughed at his own lyrics. He seemed, at that moment, distant from the man he had been.
“You know what the problem was with Maddie,” Andre said, trying to make eye contact with me. “She loved me.”
He sat down on the couch, his ass sliding closer to the edge. He closed his eyes. An odd grin, almost baleful, crossed his face. He repeated those last words again, softly, like an exhale.
Andre was dead by morning.
”"Based on True Events" - in the Spotlight at Mixer!
Very excited to have my short story, “Based on True Events,” in the Spotlight at Mixer Publishing. Thanks to everyone for the support. Footnote Boosh!
(A follow-up story to “Based on True Events,” which focuses on Andre’s father, Dennis, after Andre’s death, was published by Assisi: “We’re Grownups After All.”)
”’You know what the problem was with Maddie,’ Andre said, trying to make eye contact. ‘She loved me.’
He sat down on the couch, his ass sliding closer to the edge. He closed his eyes. An odd grin, almost baleful, crossed his face. He repeated those last words again, softly, like an exhale.
Andre was dead by morning.”
“Based on True Events,” Mixer (Halloween Issue!)
