OK,
here is my submitted short story for round 2 of the NYCMIDNIGHT short story contest. it follows these prompts: horror, a car salesman, and an accidental swapping of babies. it had to be less than 2000 words and written in a 72 hour period. Big thanks to the folks who read it and helped me edit in time to submit it.
Read it here: Jake’s Body Shop
About douglasesper
Father of two, husband of one, Douglas Esper is an author, screenwriter, actor, and musician from Cleveland, Oh. He has published two music-related non-fiction books (Reintroducing Chuck Mosley and Break When I’m Dead), a novel (A Life of Inches), and several short stories, including The Day We Hung The Tallest Thomas, which appeared in Frontier Tales. As a musician, Douglas toured with Chuck Mosley (Faith No More, Bad Brains) until the singer’s death in 2017. As an actor, he has 20 credits in films like: Bunker Heights (2027), The Obsidian Mirror (2026), Trivial (2023), and On Gallows Hill (2026?), which is currently making its rounds at festivals worldwide. His coming of age, road trip screenplay, Both Hands In is in pre-production.
