Exit A Head

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>There are stories - and there are the stories behind the stories.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This may look like any short story collection. And on the surface it is albeit a strange one. Writer and book editor Dave Pasquantonio presents twenty short stories that dip their toes in and often dive deep into the weird end of the pool.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Newspaper articles about a house for sale and a local diner give us inside information that no paper would ever print. A housefly takes on chanting spiders an overly chatty dragonfly and a car window in a nod to 1940s pulp novels as she chases down a sugary treat. A woman's fragmented inner thoughts during a quick shower tell the story of her life. And Death is mightily frustrated when the higher-ups roll out a new program forcing it to talk to humans before it collects their souls.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Then Dave talks about the writing lessons he learned while writing each story. Choosing the right point of view. Finding your writing rhythm. Adding flaws and weirdness to your characters. Nailing a story's ending.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Not to worry if you're here just to read the stories however. Skip over those (boring?) author notes and stick around to see what has exited Dave's head-the funny the sad the quirky and the bizarre. Even he was surprised - and he has to live with his head full-time.</span></p><p></p><p></p>