Double Occupancy

by Dale Andrew White

In this excerpt from the collection "Moe Howard Died For Our Sins": The ordinarily meek Mr. Peeve is startled by the innkeeper's reaction when he complains about a dead body in his room."...Dale Andrew White is a natural born storyteller with an especial flair for blending fantasy, whimsy, satire and a fevered imagination into original stories that are replete with ribald humor and reader-engaging novelty. ... Highly recommended reading!" Midwest Book Review"Dale Andrew White is a devious writer and his new collection, 'Moe Howard Died For Our Sins,' provides incriminating evidence of this... To open this collection is to invite trouble and probably enjoy it. ... Excellent!" BookReview.comPLUS A BONUS SHORT "The Simpkins Revelation" by Dale Andrew White, excerpted from the collection "Return of the Dittos"

15 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 30, 2011

About the author

Dale Andrew White's humorous short stories have appeared in Modern Short Stories, Comic Relief, The MacGuffin, Nuthouse, Beyond Science Fiction & Fantasy and numerous other magazines and journals.

Midwest Book Review calls him "a natural born storyteller with an especial flair for blending fantasy, whimsy, satire and a fevered imagination into original stories that are replete with ribald humor and reader-engaging novelty."

BookReview.com warns that to open a Dale Andrew White short story collection "is to invite trouble - and probably enjoy it."

Several of White's short stories can be downloaded separately on Amazon Kindle.

White is a member of Humor Writers of America. His short story collections have been nominated for the James Thurber Prize for American Humor.

White's free-lance magazine journalism has included interviews with novelist Harry Crews, comedian Henny Youngman, cartoonist Gahan Wilson, the Allman Brothers Band, pop artist Andy Warhol,Up the Down Staircase author Bel Kaufman, behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner, actor Derek Jacobi, Watership Down author Richard Adams, novelist Eugenia Price, rock 'n' roll icons Little Richard and Bo Diddley, macabre cartoonist Gahan Wilson, Sir Peter Saunders (Agatha Christie's theatrical producer), The Blackboard Jungle author Evan Hunter (also known as Ed McBain, author of the 87th Precinct mystery series), Rumpole of the Bailey creator John Mortimer, novelist Chaim Potok, "Hagar the Horrible" cartoonist Dik Browne and others. Many of his interviews are featured in the collection Encounters with Authors and are also available separately on Amazon Kindle.