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Free Fall appears in the August 2008 issue of Hardboiled Magazine (No. 38) (hardcopy available at www.gryphonbooks.com ) Excerpt: The rush of free falling is like no other. Mountain climbing, SCUBA diving, racing a car at a hundred and fifty miles an hour. In free falling the world speeds by at 130 miles per hour. Jump out of a plane at 10,000 feet, the first second you're falling at 32 feet per second, the next you're falling at 64 feet per second, third second 128 feet per second and so on until you hit terminal velocity. You'd think the world would be a blur. It isn't. And just as in your dreams of flying you experience a peaceful, almost serene feeling. But does the same hold true for jumping off a thirteen story building? I don't think I'll be around to find out. Oh yeah, the rush of free falling is like no other. But it helps if you have a parachute.
Superstition appears in the September 2008 issue of The Storyteller (hardcopy available at: www.freewebs.com/fossilcreek/storyteller.html) (cover used by permission) Read an excerpt: The barest knife edge of sun streamed over the mountain peaks, just enough to be able to see a figure moving in on me. I wanted to reach for my rifle, then remembered I wasn't in the Marines anymore and I hadn't brought a gun with me, only a knife. It was an old Ka-Bar with a razor sharp edge, the kind leathernecks used in World War II and even Viet Nam. It wasn't standard issue anymore, but a lot of the guys had 'em. My eyes closed to slits as the shadow moved closer. He bent down, staring at me. My hands, already outside the sleeping bag, shot toward him, grabbed his collar and yanked him down. I rolled over him, still in the bag, but I had him good.

Paul's latest story Three Strikes and Yer Out is a humorous, short baseball mystery inspired by Bobby Thompson's famous "shot heard 'round the world'." It appears in the latest issue of Crimestalker Casebook, Volume IX, No. 2, just released in May '08. The hardcopy magazine is available at http://www.crimestalkers.com .	"The Boise Spuds were down by one point. Cap always knew the score, even if he wasn't directly watching the game. Their heavy hitter Casey Herman was at the plate, 3 and 2 the count. He swung. The crowd stood. The roar deafened. Somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout. But there is no joy in Spudville – mighty Casey has struck out."

	"The Good Old Days" (a Bobby Saxon story) appears in the anthology Murder Across the Map-- Click here for Amazon Read Paul's interview at Bella Online Read the review in Crimestalker Casebook

"Sometimes life is a like a David Goodis novel, Kit thought. And sometimes it's like a down and dirty blues rag. He used to listen to the blues. Now he knew what it was to live them." Born Under a Bad Sign — Hardluck Stories' anthology Noir Blues
*51-50* Appearing now in Hardluck Stories' anthology Psycho Noir


Look for Paul's poem "Don't Sleep on it Marlow," in the Spring 2006 issue of Crimestalker Casebook	Out of Time Appears in Dime Anthology 1 Click here for purchase

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