Kill Me with Chocolate

By Frank Scozzari

What does Love have to do with Chocolate anyhow? In the South of France, in the interest of love, Nick is sent out on a midnight search for chocolate.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Frank Scozzari
• Release date: Aug 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310308932

Frank Scozzari

Frank Scozzari was born in Bay Shore, New York. He moved to California as a child, where he attended and graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He now resides on the California Central Coast. An avid adventurer, he hobo’ed his way across America at age eighteen, twice trekked the John Muir Trail, backpacked through Europe, camel-backed the ruins of Giza, jeep-trailed the length of the Baja peninsula three times, globe-trotted from China to the Pyrenees to the White Nights of northern Russia, and once climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro – the highest point in Africa. A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, his award-winning short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines including The Emerson Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Tampa Review, War Literature & the Arts (U.S. Air Force Academy), Pacific Review, Eleven Eleven, The Bitter Oleander, South Dakota Review, Minetta Review (NYU), Hawaii Pacific Review, Ellipsis Magazine, The Nassau Review, The MacGuffin, Reed Magazine, The Broken Plate, Roanoke Review, and Short Story America, and have been featured in literary theater.

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Kill Me with Chocolate

by Frank Scozzari

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Copyright 2015 Frank Scozzari

An original short story

Kill Me with Chocolate

How do I know you really love me? she asked, standing tall on the hotel bed with both hands on her hips.

Nick stopped unbuttoning his shirt and looked up at her. The way she stood there beneath the ceiling light, scantly clad in French lingerie, she resembled a burlesque stripper on the Rue de Lac.

You know I love you, he said.

Do I?

Yes.

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