Christmas comes early for me this year with publication of my flash short story, “Christmas at the Tehachapi Motor Court Motel,” in Gritmas2, from Anxiety Press. Mine is one of fourteen tales of “Christmas at closing time” — hardboiled noir illuminated by blinking holiday lights. Though my tale is short — like the scrappy Christmas tree in my story, it “goes up and down like a beach umbrella” — I’m confident it packs a punch. And if you come for my story, be sure to stay for the other baker’s dozen of tales — bare-knuckled holiday crime delights, every one of them. Start reading one story per night around the middle of December and you've got a ghastly Christmas advent all lined up.
Best of all — proceeds from this anthology go to Feed The Children.
The book is available through Amazon, here.
My thanks to Anxiety Press for publishing my story which, in a twist, might be the most hopeful tale in the book. If you know the tone of my past work, that should prepare you for what you will find between the covers of Gritmas 2! Happy Holidays!