Shooting Creek and Other Stories

Dark gritty disturbing. Those are the types of characters youll encounter in the award winning stories within this collection. Tough people in a tough world. But also real people struggling with difficult decisions when faced with unthinkable circumstances. What happens when you discover a dead body but cant go to the police because of your own dark past? Or your fathers dark past? What might a woman resort to when her husband doesnt hold up his end of a bargain? What frightening surprises lie buried beneath the beaches of North Carolina? Or in the desolate hills of Virginias Blue Ridge Mountains? Or in the swamps of the New Jersey Pine Barrens? These are stories that are as dark gritty and disturbing as the characters who inhabit them yet there is a pervasive humanness which forces us to empathize. That asks us to understand why people sometimes do what they do. Perhaps thats the reason these stories have been chosen for the Best American Mystery series honored by The Atlantic Monthlys Student Writing Contest not to mention various other awards and honors. Perhaps thats why these stories will stick with you well after the reading has commenced. Always gnawing at you unrelenting asking What would you have done in that situation? Would you have behaved any differently? Praise for SHOOTING CREEK AND OTHER STORIES: This excellent collection transcends any genre label. Ultimately these stories are mysteries of the human hearts darkest regions. Scott Sanders is the real deal and deserves a wide and appreciative readership. -Ron Rash The New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Frank OConnor International Short Story Award. Each story is a gem in this dark atmospheric treasure box of a collection. Scott Loring Sanders digs deep and peers unflinching into the frail twisted human heart revealing its many facets and glittering truths. A stellar collection! -Lisa Unger The New York Times bestselling author of The Red Hunter. In Shooting Creek and Other Stories youll find neer-do-well husbands drunken fathers tough-as-nails women and mothers and murderously unfaithful wives in a rogues gallery of dangerous characters in bad situations. These are stories that will keep you up late reading and thinking stories that mute the concerns of the everyday world while turning up the volume on thrills and excitement. This is a collection that will fire the imagination while raising moral and ethical issues which is the true heart of Scott Sanderss fiction. If youre looking for something good to read this is the book you want. -Ed Falco author of The New York Times bestselling The Family Corleone. Scott Loring Sanderss stories are always rich in atmosphere and his characters are often presented with difficult moral dilemmas. Hes an author who prefers a degree of ambiguity to an easy resolution and that makes his work thought-provoking as well as unpredictable. Readers in search of well-written complex suspense tales wont go wrong with a Sanders collection! -Janet Hutchings Editor-in-Chief Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine.