A Means to An End now available in paperback
Yes, it's that time again. In another desperate bid to drive up book sales and make people pay attention to me, I would like to announce that my latest foray into horror anthology publication from Post Mortem-Press is available in paperback. It features my story Ain't No Grave, a quiet reflection about the state of modern marriage and a good old-fashioned apocalyptic vision of the afterlife. You should read it. I hear it's pretty good.
Here's a brief excerpt, in case you don't believe me:
Had Alice Neilson known that the dead would return, she would have never poisoned Frank's coffee on Monday morning. She would have never emptied the tiny glass dropper into the cooling pot while Frank contentedly watched the news, craning his neck and leaning back in his seat to see the television in the next room from his perch at the kitchen table. It was the same way that he did every morning, quietly eating his whole wheat toast as Alice stood at the sink, watched the crawl of morning traffic on the street beneath their apartment, and said nothing.
At eight o'clock Frank kissed Alice goodbye at the door and told her he would be home in time for dinner. She smiled, long fingers toying idly with the aged heart pendant around her neck and told Frank that she loved him. By nine the reports had begun coming in between songs and radio static during Alice's morning commute. It had been going on for days but no one noticed, starting first in the cities, when the cemeteries were too full to bury any more bodies. The crematoriums were taking the overrun of the dead in stacks in basements and zippered bags in the halls. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming, as Alice locked her car door and walked the half-block's worth of parking garage between her and Westfield Marketing, and didn't think about the dead.
It's also going to be a comic. (You should read that when it comes out, too.)
Pick up your copy today, or get the Kindle edition. It's actually cheaper. It may not as fun as a book, which can also be used as a doorstop or a paperweight, or even kindling in case you forget to pay the heating bill, but worth having nonetheless.
