Enjoy Some Sex Death Rock N Roll in this New Short Story Anthology
We’re in the thick of summer, with just a few more weekends left until the chill of fall begins, which means it’s the perfect time for a bit of beach (or pool) reading. Out now from publisher Excessive Nuance is Staci Layne Wilson and Darren Gordon Smith’s eBook Sex Death Rock N Roll, a “highly energetic and equally nuanced set of stylish tales of obsession, cynicism, neurosis, and rage” (Lee Gambin, author).
And if you live in or near LA, on Saturday, August 15th, Wilson and Smith will be signing at Dark Delicacies at 2 pm PT. For more info visit DarkDel.com.
From the Press Release:
Filmmakers, writers, and all-around Renaissance rockers Darren Gordon Smith and Staci Layne Wilson have put their noggins together for the most far-out fiction anthology this side of the Whiskey A Go-Go.
Staci Layne Wilson is known for writing and directing movies (Fetish Factory, Good Family Times) as well as authoring several books (Dark Lullaby, 50 Years of Ghost Movies). Darren Gordon Smith is a filmmaker (Repo! The Genetic Opera), wordsmith (Blurt: Curses & Verses, Seward’s Fall), and musician (The Livermores).
The two longtime friends and sometime collaborators (short film: The Night Plays Tricks, inspired by the music of Bob Dylan) have combined their talents to present a one-of-a-kind, amplifiers-to-11 anthology of short stories that’s as unsettling as it is hilarious.
Synopsis:
There is just something so provocative about rock stars. We can’t get enough of their gently weeping guitars, tuneful talents, and sexy shenanigans. Whether you plastered Jimi Hendrix posters all over your bedroom walls, danced to “Love Is a Battlefield” at your wedding, or dressed as Slash on Halloween – admit it: You’ve been beguiled by the guitar gods.
Go behind the music and down the rabbit hole with Sex Death Rock N Roll, five bizarre, outlandish, dark, droll, and just plain sacrilegious stories by Darren Gordon Smith and Staci Layne Wilson.
- “Fandom/Phantom” – When Alberta magically brings her favorite departed rock ‘n roll poet back to life, he’s everything she dreamed… at first.
- “Little Rosie vs. The Devil” – When Satan tempts guitarist Strings McGee at the crossroads of his life, there’s hell to pay.
- “In(ter)vention” – When alkie music critic Ian is ambushed with an intervention by his well-meaning but misguided family, things go from bad to super-bad.
- “Depraved Indifference” – When Hawkeye gets too obsessed with the flameout fatalities of famous hi-fi heroes, fantasy spills into reality.
- “Fishing with Grandpa” – When aging, entitled rock star Rhys Weedham takes a shine to his granddaughter’s best friend, the unsuspecting young lady is faced with a Hobson’s choice.
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