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If you have been a long term reader of Clues and Reviews, you will know that I have a very strange love/hate relationship with police procedural novels. I always struggle with the pacing, the characters, and the same storylines. So, when I picked up Caged, by Ellison Cooper, from the library, I was shocked to find out that a book I had waited for for so long was a police procedural.
Yikes.
Needless to say, I dragged my feet a bit before I started and decided I would read a chapter, to be fair, before I returned the book.
Well, joke is on me! The second I opened the first page, I was completely hooked. I read late into the night; the kind of reading night that leaves your eyes burning because you cannot put down the book. I was obsessed.
The novel opens with the discovery…
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About a year ago, I formed a small writing group that meets every month to discuss each other’s works-in-progress. One of the group members reliably asks, for nearly every piece, questions about the setting. Oftentimes, even if the piece is fairly clear about where the action is taking place, there is missing context or grounding detail about the environment.
Hearing those questions frequently has, of course, sparked me to ask them pre-emptively when crafting my own work—to take the setting more seriously as a character in and of itself.
I face the wind
Each day I wait
As time passes
People come and go
Trees fall
Dying animals cry
Buildings replace rolling hills
Fewer trees dot the landscape
Polluted water fills the oceans
Mankind has made drastic changes
Stop before it’s too late
I refuse to be the last tree standing
Altamura (Apulia, Italy) by Dauno Settantatre
Dark are the streets
By which they creep.
Silence is their goal.
Through the town, they go.
Bodies left behind,
Blood-dry we will find.
Church bells are tolling,
And heads are rolling.
Flee from this we must
Before we are dust.
THE DEAD GAME
Well, it was fun to have three back-to-back serials. I thought I would write a standalone short story this week just to prove I could. This story is a bit strange, but for those of you that share my daytime profession, it might make you smile and cringe at the same time.
If you want to catch up on my other short stories and serials you can click on the links.
For now, please enjoy the short story, Another Day in Paradise
What a party. Sid Abernathy woke up at 4:15 AM in the bed of his Pasadena hotel room with an alternating feeling of needing to vomit and needing to urinate. The project was a success and the partner had taken the team out for a celebration. The alcohol had flowed freely and Sid drank an uncharacteristically large number of gin and tonics.
All he could remember was a…
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