Contemporaneous: Chapters’ 8 – 12.
8. I wake too early like I ‘ve done every day since I was on antidepressants for five years over twenty years ago, and they fucked with my sleep, and even now, even with them clean from my system, the side-effects they introduce remain. Grabbing my phone from the bedside drawer where my clock radio sits, I check it, tensing as I expect some Lana diatribe. Sometimes she does that, sending me an essay detailing why I’ve behaved so poorly, a guided tour into my inadequacies that immerses me in guilt that overwhelms any equilibrium I have, until all that remains is the doubt that maybe, just maybe, I…
Any More Complicated Than That
Title: Any More Complicated Than That Publisher: ECG Press Publication Date: 1 December 2024 Category: Contemporary Paperback: (216mm x 140mm) ISBN Print: 978-0-6454853-9-4 Ebook: 978-0-6454853-8-7 Skip Lago is a thirty-something bestselling author, a neurotic savant who lives for nothing but his writing and has trouble connecting with the real world. His wife, Sherry Killian, is a brilliant editor, a woman widely respected in the publishing industry, but who feels her personal needs aren’t being met. Jake Rappaport has just realized his dream of opening his own bar, but his true passion has always been his shameless, if not vindictive, womanizing. A chance meeting unlocks a series of events where Skip, Sherry,…
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