The Thirteen Lives of Frank Peppercorn
(2017)A collection of stories by Dominic Adler, Jason Beech, Kevin Berg, Ryan Bracha, Paul D Brazill, Robert Cowan, Craig Furchtenicht, Shervin Jamali, Jason Michel, Allen Miles, Alex Shaw and Mark Wilson
Thirteen ways to remember the dead. Thirteen histories of a loving husband.
Betty Peppercorn is burning her husband Frank today. Well, she's burning her property. The corpse she was left with as a reward for loving somebody for better or worse. Frank exists only in her thoughts, anymore.
To her knowledge, Frank had no friends. Betty's not even sure he existed before they met. It comes as a major surprise, then, when several strange faces appear at the funeral, each of them bringing their own stories of what Frank meant to them.
As the day goes on, it becomes increasingly apparent that Frank was not the man she thought he was.
Thirteen new and established writers collide in this brand new novel-of-stories project from Ryan Bracha, the brains behind Twelve Mad Men, The Switched, and The Dead Man Trilogy. All proceeds will be donated to Alzheimer's charities.
Featuring contributions from:
Dominic Adler - The Ninth Circle
Jason Beech - Moorlands
Kevin Berg - Indifference
Paul D. Brazill - A Case of Noir, Guns of Brixton, Kill Me Quick
Robert Cowan - The Search For Ethan, For All is Vanity
Craig Furchtenicht - Dimebag Bandits, Behind the 8 Ball
Shervin Jamali - The Devil's Lieutenant
Jason Michel - The Death of Three Colours, The Black-Hearted Beat
Allen Miles - This is How You Disappear
Alex Shaw - The Aidan Snow series
Martin Stanley - The Gamblers, Glasgow Grin, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Billingham Forum
Mark Wilson - The dEaDINBURGH series, On The Seventh Day, Ice Cold Alice
Used availability for Alex Shaw's The Thirteen Lives of Frank Peppercorn