putting it out there

Many, many years ago, suckered into doing NaNoWriMo by a well meaning friend, I first wrote about a character named Grant. He was a heavy drinking, pill popping artist in the midst of an existential crisis who woke up one morning to discover something had gone terribly wrong in his neighborhood. I didn’t write more than two chapters before life got in the way of my finishing NaNoWriMo.

The next year I tried my hand at it again, choosing to start something totally different rather than pick up Grant’s story again. It was here where I created Stu, a middle aged disc jockey at a radio station…