Contemporaneous: Chapters’ 2 & 3
2. “How was your day?” she asks me. I hate this question, although not because she asks it (although she knows how I dislike the question), but because my day was like the day before it, and the one before that, and the one before that. You get the idea. If anything different were to happen, anything spectacular, anything worthy of mentioning, then I’d mention it, but working as an editor in a small publisher doesn’t exactly offer the excitement of, say, working in the bomb squad. “The usual,” I tell her. I know she hates that answer because she’s a sharer. She’ll detail everything that happens throughout her day…
Just Another Week in Suburbia
Title: Just Another Week in Suburbia Publisher: ECG Press Publication Date: 5 December 2025 Category: Suburban Noir Paperback: (234x156mm, 366 pages) ISBN Print: 978-1-7636892-4-4 Ebook: 978-1-7636892-3-7 Just how well can you ever truly know somebody? Casper Gray is a self-effacing thirty-year-old living a comfortable life in the idyll of middle-class suburbia. He and his beautiful wife, Jane, have been married for seven years, and are trying to have a baby. They own a cute little dog, Wallace. Casper’s respected in his job as a high school English teacher. And he’s liked in the neighborhood – well, mostly. But one simple discovery threatens to unravel it all. In a week where…
