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C. M. Chapman’s second collection of short fiction uses an even darker palette to paint stories ranging from sexual mishaps in electric cars to female abusers and the mile-high exploits of a Lothario on a cross-country flight to further imbroglios.
Like his first collection, In and for the District of Desire, these stories draw images of the dark side of love and lust. Balancing such noir visions though are tales that explore love’s journeys in a “slightly jokey” way, all the better to make a point.
The stories here also use an expanded set of tools from transcripts and texts to telegrams and images.
Whether you call them bedroom farces, bawdy or stirring or erotic literary invention, they touch the parts of ourselves that we hide and the ones we seek; each stirs memories of long thoughts we meant to follow to the end but never did.

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In and for the District of Desire:
Short Stories from the Dark Crimes-Of-The-Heart Beat

Bite-size and longer stories that reach those hard-to-get-at spots we didn’t know we had

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This season it’s bound to be C.M. Chapman’s In and For the District of Desire, a fully loaded docket of stories that cover the crimes-of-the-heart beat from Juvie to Special Victims.

From loss of innocence on the streets of Chicago, to theft of innocence on a dare; from the breaking and entering of hearts to the obsessive twists of love, In and For the District of Desire updates the dark and bittersweet flavor of noir for today’s reader.

It's free-range fiction with a punch; also a slap, a tickle and a kiss on the lips . . . you’ll turn the pages as fast as you can, for the storyline—and the breeze.

"I have to say the stories are all pretty dark and disturbing. As I began reading, I couldn’t help but be reminded of Rod Serling and “The Twilight Zone” series; all very dark and disturbing as well but somehow we (or I) kept watching and it lives on to this day."
-Early Reader Chris R.

If books had movie ratings, this one would be a capital ‘R’ with a small ‘x.’ Just the Rx to wash away the dull film of today’s formula fiction.

[The] "last two stories really drew me in, and, as I noted, I was disappointed when they ended so soon. I was really impressed to see that they are excerpts from novels in progress; interesting characters and story lines, both leaving me wanting more, or at least, answers."
-Advance  Reader Chris R.

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