Steven Lee Climer

Orange Days Steven Lee Climer

Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. I always say that if you want to know what happened during a specific time period, read the literature that was written during that time. Writers, poets, painters, entertainers - all capture the mood of the times. I'm not talking about pop or pulp that is made to make money, but the stuff that lasts. Sometimes they do the same. Orange Days is a collection of dark humor and horror in response to the challenging times we live in: hate and bullying are positive qualities to be admired; manners are a weakness; compassion is shunned in favor of ego and brute force. Yeah, a lot of conservatives won't like this but it is the 1st amendment in action. Naomi's Genital Obsession A woman obsessed with a transgender person using the bathroom gets an unexpected response in the form of an ancient God Rattlesnakes and Bears The President learns a difficult lesson in deception that results in death Death of a Lovely Wench Terror on the Great Lakes because of an invasive species The White's Christmas A Christmas wish comes through for a tortured young man in a bigoted family All Pink on the Inside A hateful Republican politician is faced with a hard lesson, but can he save his own life? Disintegration A teenage boy loses his mother from lack of healthcare and must survive his abusive step-father or die Requiem in Bluegrass A southern ideological serial killer hunts the roads at night with his Monster Truck with Confederate flags flying The Wall isn't For Bad Hombres An elitist, egocentric young conservative loud-mouth blonde journalist learns a bitter truth in the Texas desert About the cover collage: I created the cover to serve as a proper and just introduction. There were no words I could really say that others had not expressed more effectively. I let them speak for me and this collection.