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Trick: A Halloween Short Story
When living by yourself, it's easy to let little things spook you. Sometimes your mind even plays tricks on you. Roger Cassidy lives alone. He thought he got a great deal on his apartment, but then the knocking began. Knocking on his door that comes and goes, but with no one there. Roger is determined to figure out the mystery of why this is happening, and on Halloween night
he'll get more answers than he ever dreamed...
he'll get more answers than he ever dreamed...
20 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 21, 2012
9 people want to read
About the author
Gerard Houarner
73 books37 followers“Houarner is a smart, intelligent talent who has a gift for writing with serene beauty about the most atrocious things.” Ed Bryant, Locus
He is also the author of 5 novels and over 300 short stories and novellas, some gathered in 6 collections.
He fell to Earth in the fifties and is a product of the NYC school system and the City College of New York, where he studied writing under Joseph Heller and Joel Oppenheimer and crashed hallucinogenic William Burroughs seminars back in the day.
The mental health field has provided a living as well as inspiration for the past 34 years. His current position might be described as Director of Recovery and Recreation at Arkham Asylum.
Since 1998, he has served as Fiction Editor for Space and Time magazine.
He continues to write whenever he can, mostly at night, about the dark.
He is also the author of 5 novels and over 300 short stories and novellas, some gathered in 6 collections.
He fell to Earth in the fifties and is a product of the NYC school system and the City College of New York, where he studied writing under Joseph Heller and Joel Oppenheimer and crashed hallucinogenic William Burroughs seminars back in the day.
The mental health field has provided a living as well as inspiration for the past 34 years. His current position might be described as Director of Recovery and Recreation at Arkham Asylum.
Since 1998, he has served as Fiction Editor for Space and Time magazine.
He continues to write whenever he can, mostly at night, about the dark.
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July 11, 2023
Not all coming of age stories are about adolescence. "Tricks" is about a man who, alone and in retirement, may have a chance to "fit" and do something useful with the remainder of his life.
January 10, 2024
Just ok.
May 2, 2014
This is an odd story of a veteran that moves into an apartment complex. Immediately he starts hearing a knock at the door but no one is there. From there it took a "Sixth Sense" style slant. Didn't connect with me.
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