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Yonkers, New York, The United States

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F. P. Dorchak has been writing horror, metaphysical, and weird fiction since he was six years old. Frank is published in the U.S., Canada, and the Czech Republic. His novels are:

1) Psychic (2014)
2) ERO (2013)
3) The Uninvited (2013)
4) Sleepwalkers (2001)

His anthology, Do The Dead Dream? (2017), which won the 2017 Best Books Award for Fiction: Short Stories.

His short stories have appeared in small press magazines, as well as the regional anthologies You Belong 2016, Words and Images from Longmont Area Residents, the 2012 The You Belong Collection, Writings and Illustrations by Longmont Area Residents. His two standalone short stories are:

1) "Broken Windows" (2017)
2) "Clowns" (2016)

His newest agented manuscript was inspired by Ray Bradbury’s ...more

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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

F.P. Dorchak That is a very good question!

One event was when I was a kid returning home from swimming at the beach that was in front of our house. Clad in my swim…moreThat is a very good question!

One event was when I was a kid returning home from swimming at the beach that was in front of our house. Clad in my swim shorts and wrapped in a beach towel, I had just gotten to the road, when this VAN (yeah, VAN) pulls over and asks me for directions (this was actually a common occurrence back in the NYS summers of the 70s, mainly Canadians, since we lived close to the border). There were two twenty-year-old dudes in the front seat, and, I soon discovered, another guy in the back of the van. As I'm talking to these guys--I did not have a good feeling about them--the side door slides open, and inside is this other guy, grinning and now also addressing me! Yeah, I did not get a good vibe from these fellas.

Anyway, just about when this happens, my dad, a strapping Forest Ranger at the time, suddenly comes purposefully striding down our crushed-stone driveway on the other side of this van, and in ONE HAND is carrying a mattock. “Can I help you boys with something?” my dad calls out from across the road.

The dudes suddenly forgot their question and speed off. I do remember that they didn't just get back on the road and "drive away"; they actually SPED OFF.

Years later I asked my dad about that situation and he said he’d asked his State Trooper buddies and they'd told him that they’d found that van down the road a way--abandoned. It had been discovered that the van had been stolen.

So, a good plot would have been that my dad had not been there to save my young ass and I'd been kidnapped. Of course, I'd turn said story into one with a supernatural bent to it...much like the short story I'd written that was partially inspired by just this event, called "What Dreams Are Made Of": https://fpdorchak.wordpress.com/2016/....

My apologies if it's from an already written story, but if it were a book, I'd definitely mix things up a bit more. I really don't have a lot of such events in my life that I can remember, but this one was the big "mystery" in my life. There is another one, but, at this time, I can't go into it because of privacy issues, so this is the one that will have to suffice.

However...

I also wonder what would have happened had I made it through USAF navigator training (see my novel ERO: https://fpdorchak.wordpress.com/2013/...) and also made it into astronaut training. Though ERO is again a "what-if" about a mystery that happened to me, I do wonder how life would have been...had I made it into a flying career. But I believe everything happens for a reason.

Thank you for your question!(less)

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What books are on your summer reading list this year?

F.P. Dorchak Ambush and Gone To Darkness, both by Barbara Nickless.
The Best of James Van Pelt, by James Van Pelt.
Night Gallery: The Art of Darkness, by Scott Skel…moreAmbush and Gone To Darkness, both by Barbara Nickless.
The Best of James Van Pelt, by James Van Pelt.
Night Gallery: The Art of Darkness, by Scott Skelton and Jim Benson.(less)

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	Do The Dead Dream?: An Anthology of the Weird and the Peculiar by F.P. Dorchak (Goodreads Author), Joyce Combs (Editor) 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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