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Conga Line of the Dead

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Time 3h 5m

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Peter Worthers has a gift, if you're dumb enough to call it that. He can talk to dead people, but so what? Big deal, just don't mess with him and he won't mess with you. 
But after a lifetime of bachelor 'living' with his ghostly companion Toke, a strange woman arrives on his doorstep wanting his help in saving her sons life from a years old family curse.  Is she really THAT desperate? Guess so, that's what the story says.
Peter and Tokes already strange lives are pulled into an even weirder one with supernatural events that surround the woman and her son, an old haunted mansion, the before-mentioned curse, a conga line of dead people (shocker right?) one too many references to David Duchovny and an unhealthy obsession with Barry Manilow.
Part comedy, part horror and two thirds labor of love, Conga Line of the Dead is the realization of a story too many years in the making. 
Is it THAT epic? Maybe not. Is it THAT entertaining? Why don't you be the judge?All Rights Reserved

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Running With Scissors

Diagnosed with a terminal illness, Peter Katz hires a hitman to take him out. But when a cure is discovered, Peter's got to outrun the assassin to stay alive! ***** When douchebag lawyer Peter Katz gets diagnosed with terminal cancer, he wants to die painlessly. Still, death seems to elude his every attempt, so he hires an assassin to kill him at a random time and place within the month. Unfortunately for Peter, right after he orders the hit, a treatment is discovered that would add decades to his life. Now Peter Katz has to start running, until the month-long deadline ends. Desperate to survive, he has to deal with tall-dwarves, unionized suicide workers, art terrorism and all the insanity that being alive has to offer. Will he make it to the end of the month? Or will Peter Katz live a life's worth of craziness in however many days he has left? For what is Comedy, but Tragedy + Time? [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]