Eight
Lying in bed at night, I think about the things I never want to hear again. I never want to hear one of IDIOT FRIEND’s bullshit excuses for why he hasn’t done work assigned to him (he once told me he hadn’t take pictures I required for a pitch deck because he couldn’t hold the camera straight due to our thirty-second earthquake), any of his mindless (and unsubstantiated) attacks, or any of his remorseful but shitty, provisional apologies. Sometimes, you offer perfunctory acceptance in return because it’s just too much effort to extract yourself from a mire of shit, stupidity, and idiocy. That’s why so many people persevere with terrible…
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 BUY ME 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…
