Making a Deal [Short Story]

On tonight's podcast, I'll be looking at Making A Deal, the third piece I wrote in January as a part of my Year of Stories project. 

Growing up, some of my favorite fiction involved people making deals -- really bad deals -- with devils and demons and genies and occasionally, other people. My favorite part of those stories was always the turn, the moment the deal went sour and the hero had to scrap and claw his way against the inevitable. 

I was a fun kid. 

As I grew older, I started to wonder the same thing about deal stories that I did when I watched someone in a horror movie run up the stairs instead of out the front door -- I wondered if films or books didn't exist in their universe, and if they did, why hadn't anyone ever written about this before?

Just as importantly, I couldn't figure out why creatures with near unlimited power, would waste their time messing with hapless protagonists. 

Making A Deal is my small effort to address these issues. 

It's a story about bars, greed, and a magic man named Lloyd. 

 

I hope you enjoy. 

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Additional Sounds by: Caroline Ford

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