A Face in the Crowd by Stephen King and Stewart O’Nan and The Longest December by Richard Chizmar are a pair of Novellas published together by Cemetery Dance Publications. The King-O’Nan collaboration is a baseball story in which the protagonist watching a baseball game on TV sees his past flash before his life in characters sitting behind Homeplate. The Longest December is about a best friend next-door-neighbor who turns out to be a serial killer. Both stories are excellent, smooth reads. Here’s a summary from Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60102274

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About Mike Wilson

Mike Wilson’s work has appeared in magazines including Cagibi Literary Journal, Stoneboat, The Aurorean, The Ocotillo Review, London Reader, and in anthologies including for a better world 2020 and Anthology of Appalachian Writers Vol. X. He received Kentucky State Poetry Society’s Chaffin/Kash Prize in 2019. He resides in Lexington, Kentucky, but summers in Ecstasy and winters in Despair.

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