If you missed the live version, you can watch it on endless repeat here!

I had a total blast last night reading at our Virtual Noir at the Bar, hosted by everyone’s favorite charmingly unhinged host, Ed Aymar. The line-up of exceptional authors dug deep into their dark sides to deliver crowd-pleasing stories, in partnership with local indie East City Books.

I read half of my short story “Sandoval,” which was published last year in Issue 70 of Gargoyle, DC’s long-lived literary journal helmed by Richard Peabody. I could only fit in half in order to stick to the eight-minute time limit, and still had to edit heavily. The pay-off was Ed’s surprised reaction at the conclusion: “Holy shit, was that creepy.”

My reading starts at the ~1:01 mark if you want to skip ahead. bit.ly/2Lip3MV

Here’s a bit of trivia: all the books behind & above me on the shelf are by authors whom I know. Unfortunately, my head blocks a lot of them!