Author Description

**Odd Places by Guy Anthony De Marco** A long, dark road stretches before you, waiting to take you to Odd Places... - A pair of thugs discover their prey isn’t as helpless as they expected. - A rancher tries to find a meat processor who will handle his unusual cattle. - A dysfunctional family wins a robotic butler with a few screws loose. - An odd antique box catches the eye of a rich man. - A kid finds that Santa Claus is not what he expected. - A farmhand is adopted into his herd of milk cows. - A magician is forced to divulge the secret of his best illusion. - A father snatches the death meant for his daughter.... and 19 more stories that will transport you to Odd Places. This collection of short stories appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Necrotic Tissue Magazine, AlienSkin Magazine, Serpentarius Magazine, and other speculative fiction markets. *Guy Anthony De Marco is a nocturnal award-winning author living in the geographic center of the middle of nowhere. Between writing speculative fiction, brewing more coffee, and wishing the bills and the horrific mortgage would forget how to find him, he ponders how long it would take for a zombie apocalypse to reach his front door. His practical wife, Tonya, trains all of the small pets to trip the incoming hordes and wonders where all the coffee went by the time she wakes up. Guy is a member of the following organizations: SFWA, HWA, SFPA, ASCAP, RMFW, and hopes to collect the rest of the letters of the alphabet one day.*