OK, talk about procrastinating! Maybe this day job thingy and
working on two writing projects has something to do with it. But I have an
announcement to make that’s a week overdue. My short story collection, Darker
Passages, is now available in eBook on Amazon. Woot!
Look at the fantastic cover created by my son, Jason
Venturini. Yep, shameless plug. Read the title. Do you notice the creepy specter
at the end of the passages? Yeah, it's all kind
of dark.
Well, I have to come clean: my writing and my short stories all have darker
tones to them. Slasher stories? No! Vampires? Forget it; they suck out your
brains along with your blood. But, you won’t find me writing a new episode of Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century either, no matter how much I love Daffy and
Marvin the Martian.
Why do my tales lean
toward the dark? Perhaps it’s because we all have a darker side. No matter how
bright and cheerful on the outside, we all have our insecurities, our fears,
the personal demons we spar with every day.
Maybe in some small way my writing allows me to layout my demons for the
world to see, hoping to find some surcease. Don’t get me wrong. I love life. I
laugh and I joke around a lot. I love my family and friends. I’ve had a lot of
great adventures. Nevertheless, I do believe we live in a fallen world that can
be very dark at times. To quote a famous saying: “Who knows what evil lurks in
the hearts of men? The Shadow do! :-)
I pray that the night
is truly far spent, and the day is indeed close at hand.
I’ll leave you with a little Duck Dodgers. Enjoy.
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