Monument: A Short Story

by Matt Darst

An experimental procedure delivers Graham Duncan to the denouement of the apocalypse.
All proceeds will be donated to Stand Up to Cancer.
Previously published with the novel Freaks Anon.

40 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 3, 2017

About the author

Matt Darst got hooked on books early. He read recreationally at first, but soon began hitting the hard stuff after discovering a dog-eared copy of "Salem's Lot."

By twelve, Matt’s addiction to the written word took a turn for the worse. He started writing…for fun. His experimentation with notebooks (a classic gateway) led to dabbling with typewriters.

Matt went cold turkey in law school. He decided to straighten out his life. He got a job, a house, and a dog. His normal life was good. Still…

Pen and pad call to Matt late at night, cooing his name, telling him to take one last hit of fiction. Sometimes, when Matt’s weak, he heeds the siren call of the drug. He wakes from each blackout amid reams of freshly written pages, pages that have seemingly written themselves. Somehow, they coalesced into a book.

"Dead Things" is Matt’s first novel.