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Rock Bottom
WINNER OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY WRITERS ASSOCIATION'S 2013 WRITING CONTEST, BEST PUBLISHED SHORT STORY CATEGORY
Rock Bottom is featured in the noir anthology, To Hell in a Fast Car, edited by John L. French. You are cordially invited to ride-along with a dead man. Fasten your seatbelt. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
“It’s a tough world out there. And nobody knows it better than Quintin Peterson. A native Washingtonian, Peterson was a cop for 28 years, and his experience is all over the dark stories he writes.
“His latest effort, ‘Rock Bottom,’ appears in an anthology edited by John L. French called ‘To Hell in a Fast Car.’ In it, a cop-gone-bad barrels through DC in an unmarked police cruiser, escaping the scene of his own crime. ‘Blood drenched and woozy,’ he struggles to make it to his girlfriend before his luck – or his life – runs out.
“ It’s a harrowing ride, and Peterson captures every suspenseful moment of it in lickety-split prose that sketches the back story while still keeping you in the moment – and delivering a knockout punch that will leave you breathless.”
– Karen Lyon, The Hill Rag
Rock Bottom is featured in the noir anthology, To Hell in a Fast Car, edited by John L. French. You are cordially invited to ride-along with a dead man. Fasten your seatbelt. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
“It’s a tough world out there. And nobody knows it better than Quintin Peterson. A native Washingtonian, Peterson was a cop for 28 years, and his experience is all over the dark stories he writes.
“His latest effort, ‘Rock Bottom,’ appears in an anthology edited by John L. French called ‘To Hell in a Fast Car.’ In it, a cop-gone-bad barrels through DC in an unmarked police cruiser, escaping the scene of his own crime. ‘Blood drenched and woozy,’ he struggles to make it to his girlfriend before his luck – or his life – runs out.
“ It’s a harrowing ride, and Peterson captures every suspenseful moment of it in lickety-split prose that sketches the back story while still keeping you in the moment – and delivering a knockout punch that will leave you breathless.”
– Karen Lyon, The Hill Rag
14 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 4, 2013
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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October 9, 2018
He had it coming.
Third of Mr. Peterson's stories I've read. I'm hooked. The man can write some serious noir. Don't shy away from the shorts. Some are better than full length novels.
Third of Mr. Peterson's stories I've read. I'm hooked. The man can write some serious noir. Don't shy away from the shorts. Some are better than full length novels.
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