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Gordon Highland is the author of the novels Flashover and Major Inversions, as well as Submission Windows: a collection of stories and verse. He's published short stories in Word Riot, Noir at the Bar 2, Warmed and Bound, Black Heart Magazine, and many others. Gordon lives in the Kansas City area, where he makes videos by day and music by night.

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	Flashover 4.59 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Major Inversions 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Submission Windows: stories and verse 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Warmed and Bound: A Velvet Anthology by Pela Via (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Steve Erickson (Foreword), Craig Clevenger (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Booked. Anthology by Pela Via (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Livius Nedin (Compilation), Robb Olson (Goodreads Author) (Compilation) 4.48 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Search of a City: Los Angeles in 1,000 Words by Michael Paul Gonzalez (Goodreads Author), Bob Pastorella (Goodreads Author), Simon West-Bulford (Goodreads Author) 4.62 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Noir at the Bar Volume 2 by Jedidiah Ayres (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Frank Bill, Jane Bradley 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tobacco-Stained Sky by Guy Salvidge (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrez Bergen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gordon Highland (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Solarcidal Tendencies by Martin Garrity (Goodreads Author) (editor), Nathan Pettigrew (editor), Richard Thomas (Goodreads Author) (introduction) 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Visitors to my Music page know I’ve produced many tracks for multimedia. Theme songs, spot cues, drops/bumpers, etc. However, the closest to a complete score that I’d recorded was for my 2006 short film Featurette, clocking in at a mere 19 minutes. Then came an opportunity to compose for a new serialized horror podcast called LARKSPUR UNDERGROUND. We’ll get down and nerdy in a bit, bu

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Flashover (Literature & Fiction)

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Secondhand Souls (Grim Reaper, #2)

by Christopher Moore (Goodreads Author)

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As a Van Halen superfan, I of course reveled in getting perspectives from the other side of the glass behind their finest recordings. As a casual Doobie Brothers fan, these tales got me to revisit much of their catalog, and I confess to spending the ...more
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“Heavenly Father, I promise never again (or for three business days, whichever comes first) to take your blessings for granted if your boundless wisdom can manifest to smite this motherfucker. I don’t know, rain down some sulphur, whisper divine suggestion into his ear, even the old salt pillar trick would suffice. But ... I will take up thy sword and act as the county’s mortal archangel once again if I must. I swear to your oft-alleged earthly son that if this thug doesn’t put the toddler down and stop swinging that oversized plastic bat at us, he’ll spend his weekend removing my well-shined size eleven Florsheim from his PCP-smoking ass at the Ballard Institute for Deadbeat Dad Castration.”
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“Borrowed time and stolen moments are those of which we take the most ownership.”
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“Reading without suspicion is more dangerous than blogging without authority.”
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“Writing what you know" is about as much fun as having an affair with your spouse.”
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“If you save your best song for the encore, you won't get one.”
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“He who laughs last should not go out to movie theaters.”
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“Borrowed time and stolen moments are those of which we take the most ownership.”
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“You can't copyright a title, but if anyone tries to steal "Rabbi Sanjeev and the Periwinkle Valise of Intrigue," I'll sue the motherfucking Burberry off their back faster than you can say "Neo-Hassidic espionage.”
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