A Thousand Points of Darkness - Tapa blanda

Here are the horrifying and surreal short stories of Jason Rickett, an author and editor for over twenty years within independent publishing. This is a place of darkness. You will meet a husband encountering the worse day of his life after the death of his child. Only to find things can get infinitely worse. A concrete contractor visits a doctor and gets some unpleasant results when unreality slips around him. Another man dedicates every Friday to being the sweetest guy. Too bad the rains are coming. What could possibly be wrong with a naked woman on an apartment renter’s ceiling? Perhaps her sibilant wings? A husband takes regular time to himself to decompress in his garage. With a regular delivery of a pleasure android. Except his definition of pleasure isn’t typical. But here also is a place of light. An older kids’ baseball game is visited by a little girl with blonde hair. And Jacinto learns how to play well with others. It takes darkness to recognize the light.

Jason Rickett has been writing as long as he could form sentences. This is no exaggeration. He wrote mainly to keep his overly active imagination entertained, which failed. His imagination still took his focus from school and work. During a four year period, he wrote and published a little newspaper that gained local notoriety for being brash, offensive, entertaining and informative. And even after the newspaper shut down the presses, Jason wrote, banging on novels, short stories, and tinkering with virtual note cards developing ideas. Still, at this very moment, he sits hunched over a computer typing something that could be a short story or a novel of epic proportions while his wife rolls her eyes at the ignored dirty dishes.