Mornings With AJ and Jen

By Thomas Cannon

When a gunman takes the hosts of a morning show hostage, we find the love and darkness behind the cheery banter. Maggie tosses cigarettes in the same spot on her way to work every morning. She imagines the pile growing until her monument to misery is complete. Long before it is complete though, she will end it all. The only ones that can save her are the Blister Sisters, but they are busy running their beer tent at the town festival. Then there is the spring breaker on the make with the winner of a wet T-shirt contest. He has only known her since she took the stage and yet he has fallen in love with her.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas Cannon
• Release date: Dec 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311726582

Thomas Cannon

Thomas Cannon’s story about his son is the lead story in the anthology Cup of Comfort for Parents of Children with Autism. He also has poems and short stories published in print and electronic journals. Cannon did, in fact, work at a hospital pushing food carts. There are three more things that are true. He sometimes felt invisible. A doctor once acted as though the elevator should let him go his floor first. He would hang out with a great guy and bullshit while his friend smoked. Okay, there might be more things in life that are true. However, his novel is fiction. Things did come true after he wrote them. For example, he left a place of employment (not a hospital) and the employees did try to form a union. Thomas Cannon has worked at many peon jobs. But then, so have you.

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