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'Round Midnight
‘Round Midnight is my contribution to the anthology of paranormal short fiction, From Shadows & Nightmares. It is an unusual offering, combining a cop story with a ghost story. It is the tale of a DC cop’s on and off-duty ghostly encounters with a childhood friend who died in his youth. Hauntings can be murder. WINNER BEST PUBLISHED SHORT STORY, PUBLIC SAFETY WRITERS ASSOCIATION'S 2012 WRITING CONTEST
14 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 15, 2011
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About the author
Quintin Peterson
29 books6 followersQuintin Peterson is the author of several plays and screenplays. He is a native Washingtonian.
As a junior high school student, he attended the Corcoran School of Art on a scholarship. While still in high school, he was honored with the University of Wisconsin’s Science Fiction Writing Award and the National Council of Teachers of English Writing Award. Upon receiving the Wisconsin Junior Academy’s Writing Achievement Award, his name was included in Who’s Who Among American High School Students of 1975.
As an undergraduate communications major at the University of Wisconsin, he wrote and performed in two plays for stage and videotape and received a Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation grant for his play project, Change. A National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship and a playwriting grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities followed. Subsequently, two of his radio plays were aired on WPFW-FM Pacifica Radio as productions of the Minority Arts Ensemble’s Radio Drama Workshop ’79.
Mr. Peterson has been a police officer with the Metropolitan Police Department for 27 years and is currently assigned to its Office of Public Information as a media liaison officer. He is also a liaison between the department and members of the motion picture and television industries, acting as a script consultant and technical advisor. He is the author of a book of poetry, Nativity, two novels, SIN and The Wages of SIN; is a contributor to the crime fiction anthology D.C. Noir, edited by George Pelecanos and the John L. French edited anthology, Bad Cop, No Donut; and has published several of short crime thrillers as Amazon Shorts, available exclusively at Amazon.com. Also, Mr. Peterson is an Active Member of Mystery Writers of America.
Mr. Peterson can be contacted at quintinpeterson@gmail.com.
As a junior high school student, he attended the Corcoran School of Art on a scholarship. While still in high school, he was honored with the University of Wisconsin’s Science Fiction Writing Award and the National Council of Teachers of English Writing Award. Upon receiving the Wisconsin Junior Academy’s Writing Achievement Award, his name was included in Who’s Who Among American High School Students of 1975.
As an undergraduate communications major at the University of Wisconsin, he wrote and performed in two plays for stage and videotape and received a Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation grant for his play project, Change. A National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship and a playwriting grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities followed. Subsequently, two of his radio plays were aired on WPFW-FM Pacifica Radio as productions of the Minority Arts Ensemble’s Radio Drama Workshop ’79.
Mr. Peterson has been a police officer with the Metropolitan Police Department for 27 years and is currently assigned to its Office of Public Information as a media liaison officer. He is also a liaison between the department and members of the motion picture and television industries, acting as a script consultant and technical advisor. He is the author of a book of poetry, Nativity, two novels, SIN and The Wages of SIN; is a contributor to the crime fiction anthology D.C. Noir, edited by George Pelecanos and the John L. French edited anthology, Bad Cop, No Donut; and has published several of short crime thrillers as Amazon Shorts, available exclusively at Amazon.com. Also, Mr. Peterson is an Active Member of Mystery Writers of America.
Mr. Peterson can be contacted at quintinpeterson@gmail.com.
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