Stay God is a neo-noir thriller, one that isn't afraid to go dark. Nik is one of my neo-noir brothers, a guy that doesn't mind laying on the mood, the setting, injecting the emotions, slapping you in the face with the harsh Baltimore weather, every grimy cobblestone on top of every chipped brick until you are immersed, a part of it all, trying to keep up, trying to find a way out, holding your breath as you turn the page. I've known of this book for years, been reading it in our Write Club workshop, and was thrilled when it landed with me at Otherworld Publications. Happy lives, happily self-contained in their happy little oblivious universes." Window-shop the poster place next-door, looking for the perfect thing for the TV room. Share hot chocolate and kiss the dot of whipped cream off their noses. They push strollers with babies double-wrapped in winter coats. Couples in matching jackets and complementary scarves walk arm-in-arm down Thames and through Fell’s Point. It’s dimming, dying, falling in slow motion, but the city is oblivious. It’s dripping onto Baltimore, seeping through gauze clouds onto the cobblestone street, reflecting off wet tire tracks in pinpoint sparks like the ones that follow a two-by-four across the nose.
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