Publisher's Synopsis
Dead as Soon as Born is Aiden Merchant's debut story collection, boasting a variety of genres and narrative styles over the course of sixteen entries.
"The Sinking" - A man kills his wife and prepares to bury her in a trunk deep in the woods behind his childhood home.
"Let's Rob Your Ex!" - A divorced woman meets her ex's latest fling, a young girl with plans to rob him with her help.
"Stubby Legs" - Off the wooded trails of Dawson Park lives an ancient goblin that hasn't tasted human flesh in too long a time.
"Palinoia" - After Junior has killed his cheating girlfriend, several rips in time and space appear, giving him the ability to take back what he's done or do it yet again.
"Crossing Red" - A disturbed individual finally snaps and take things too far. Now several people are dead and he's on the run from a U.S. Marshall determined to take him down.
... plus eleven other exciting and curious stories!
"...a very gifted writer with a great knack for the creepy." - Matthew V. Brockmeyer (Author of Kind Nepenthe and Under Rotting Sky)
