Lonely

Grit & Shadows #6

by J.D. Brink

Being the new guy in town can be lonely.

No one but the TV to keep you company. Lying awake, listening to the clock tick away the hours. Hitting the bars alone because you just don’t know where else to go.

It’s hard being new. Even so, Paul should know better than to pick up strangers...

A dark tale to stave off loneliness. And feed your darkest desires.

This short story is also featured in A Long Walk Down a Dark Alley, available in ebook, audio, and paperback.

32 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 16, 2016

About the author

If taking a college fencing class, eating from the trash can, and smelling like an animal were qualifications for becoming a sword-swinging barbarian, J. D. Brink might be Conan’s protégé.
Instead, he joined the Navy… twice. He’s served aboard a warship in the Pacific, collected intel from foreign submarines, trained corpsmen to save Marines, and cared for patients at hospitals in Kuwait and Japan.
Today (New Years, 2023), he’s a civilian, a freelance writer, nurse, and educator. They ask that he not wear the Viking helmet in front of actual people…
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