The Midway Monster

By Daniel Eness

When a small-town sports reporter decides to do a feature on a local pro football bad boy, he finds himself running in all the wrong circles. Of Hell.

The Midway Monster is a short story of monstrous magic.

From the story:

"Marcus “Mack” Henry is a back-up inside linebacker for the big boys, a team that practically invented the position. The guy ahead of him on the depth-chart hits so hard, his opponents' ghosts wake up in the Hall of Fame. So even though Mack sees the field rarely, and then on mop-up duty, he is, as they say, made.
He is also, as they say, idle.
Being made and idle on a bye weekend in his hometown resulted in some fairly off-color behavior. Off-colors like red (emergency lights), blue (cops) and black (Mack’s reputation as a gentleman and a scholar.)

Ultimately, charges were dropped, the girl, also a local, a college sophomore, fell silent, and Mack scampered back to the less violent confines of the gridiron."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Daniel Eness
• Release date: Feb 9, 2012
• ISBN: 9781465805058

Daniel Eness

Daniel Eness writes stories of strange adventure where the hero always wins, except those times when he dies spectacularly in an explosion. He lives in Iowa with his family of six, for whom he writes of the churning seascape of the soul, deep evil and the hope that has overcome them both. His work has appeared in Stupefying Stories, Ideomancer, Diagram and Brain Harvest Magazine, and, in 2012, Eortholic Press will release two novels, a novella and a collection of short adventures.

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