The Closure Clinic

by David doc Robertson

Steamy, seductive, and vengeance are just a few words to describe what readers will experience from David doc Robertson's The Closure Clinic. This sultry paranormal thriller hits home from the beginning when psychologist, Alberto Gonzales, successfully concludes the treatment of a patient filled with regret. His patients, however, don't go to him because they're crazy. They need his help to recover a lost moment in their lives that lingers in the deep recesses of their minds, filled with regret. They may feel the shame of being cheated by someone, the frustration of a missed sexual encounter, or the emptiness of never acting upon the urge to love the person meant for them. So. they go to The Closure Clinic, which became big over night after Alberto appeared on the Oprah show.A suppressed tragedy in his own life, triggered by current events, shows that Alberto needs closure more than any of his clients. Alberto's mental state becomes erratic and disrupts his happy family and the practice. He receives visits from the dead, causes others to hallucinate, and experiences temporal psychosis. After a trip to Hell where he and his family receive death threats, Alberto resolves to settle the past with revenge in the present, thus leading to a suspense filled and surprise ending.

156 pages, Paperback

First published January 10, 2012

About the author

I am proud of my degrees and that I helped others achieve their dreams for so many years. As a high school basketball coach I was featured on NBC national news and had an overall record of 147 - 39. The thing that would make me most proud is to have at least one reader who is a fan of my writing.

The ambition to write started around the age of ten when I began to expand upon scary camp stories. James Bond inspired my first book Young Secret Agents in Action, 1967 (11 pages).

Going into my senior year at Crenshaw High, I experienced the worst day of my life when I suffered a spinal cord injury in a football team scrimmage and was paralyzed from the neck down. Confined to a wheelchair I started my new life.

While in the hospital I took the required class work and graduated on time. That fall I entered UCLA and earned a BA in English five years later and started to write professionally in different regional and national publications. Two years later I enrolled into the USC School of Journalism and earned an MA.

For the Los Angeles Times I wrote feature articles on a regular basis about the use of minorities and the disabled in the film industry. While continuing to write for the Times and other publications, I decided to re-direct my contribution to the community from behind the scenes and began teaching.

After a year in the classroom, I began the Wayland High series, based on events surrounding a close-knit group of teens in their last two years at a fictional school in West Los Angeles.

My writing became even more focused, as shown in A Family Tree, Taking Root, The Family Duran, and The Closure Clinic which is my first attempt in the paranormal genre. I try to follow the tenet of Maya Angelou who said in an interview that easy reading is damned hard writing.

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