Stuck in Your Head #26

I'm going to give you the line from the books I've read that make my mind crave the rest like coke.

 

I couldn’t look away from those hazel eyes. Finally, hand shaking, I took the gun, checked to make sure it was loaded, shoved it into my back waistband under my flannel shirt. I said unsteadily, “What the hell is this supposed to be? Intervention by serial killer?” iBook, page 31

In a Dark Wood by Josh Lanyon

(a short story)

First Published January 2011

Adult, romantic horror

In a dark, dark wood there was a dark, dark house...

Camping in the Jersey Pine Barrens may literally turn out to be a first date from hell for travel writer Tim and the cute cop who persuades him to revisit a past that Tim has done his best to forget.

(Part if Arresting Developments anthology)