Here’s a sneak peak at my newest short story, “Beside Myself.” It will appear in my upcoming short story collection Merryland and Other Stories. The following appears as a newspaper article in the story.

He looked at the clock: it was just after two in the morning. Ben sighed, stretched, and forced himself out of bed. Where was his vaunted luck now? He could always roll sevens, got straight A’s in school, and never failed to buy a winning lottery ticket. So why couldn’t he get 24-year-old Katy Ruskin to realize that, in the grand scheme of things, a five year age difference just wasn’t important?

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