Posted the ninth story today. It's called “Twin Killings” and like “Soar Legs” there's a pun in the title as well as both stories being variations on classic science fiction themes. In the Hollywood parlance “Twin Killings” would be dubbed something like “The Twilight Zone meets film noir.” I wrote it in the eighties, and looking back I can see that I was influenced by the science fiction of my youth and by Rod Serling's TV show.
“Twin Killings” is about an average Joe who just misses winning a $12-million lottery by one number and stumbles into something otherworldly. It features an O. Henry sort of surprise ending—although for experienced sci fi readers the ending may not be all that surprising. I used to read it once a year to my high school students. They loved it.
I probably have perhaps three more stories to post to make it an even dozen. I've written about thirty, but after the first twelve the quality falls off more than a bit. I have a couple of others I'm working on and maybe there are a couple of the not so good stories that I might revise.
--Dennis Littrell
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