Death in the City of Dreams: A YA Pulp Short Story: Rot Gut Pulp, #2

By CT Liotta

A thrilling new short story from Rot Got Pulp and the bestselling author of Relic of the Damned!

After a mad bomber blows up Mumbai's best-known history museum, Ian Racalmuto and his brother chase him through crowded streets to the city's Gothic train station. An evil scheme soon becomes clear. Can they stop a massive explosion in the heart of the city of dreams? Is the bomber acting alone? And will Ian's troublesome grandfather undermine his mother's authority?

Death in the City of Dreams is an incautious, funny, sometimes-inappropriate contemporary tale based on absurd pulp magazine adventures of the '30s and '40s, Death in the City of Dreams is the second chapter in a series of 45-minute neo-pulp quick reads. Part Hardy Boys, part Indiana Jones, and part LGBT coming-of-age, It's perfect for the beach or camp, mindless study breaks, short flights and long commutes.

Rot Gut Pulp: Entertainment, not Genius.™

Note: Death in the City of Dreams is a work of fiction. Not everybody will find it to be an accurate depiction of their lived experiences. It may contain difficult subjects and offensive themes and language. Neither Rot Gut Pulp nor the author offer advisories, as sensitivities vary from person to person.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rot Gut Pulp
• Release date: Jun 1, 2018
• ISBN: 9798224105533

CT Liotta

CT Liotta was born and raised in West Virginia before moving to Ohio for college. He now uses Philadelphia as his base of operations. You can find him the world over. Liotta takes interest in writing, travel, personal finance, and sociology. He likes vintage airlines and aircraft, politics, news, foreign affairs, the scientific method, evidence-based decisions, ’40s pulp and film noir.

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Death in the City of Dreams

CT Liotta

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Copyright © 2018 by CT Liotta

All rights reserved. This story or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form, stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise—without prior written permission of the publisher, except as provided by United States of America copyright law.

Relic of the Damned! is a work of fiction. Not everybody will see themselves reflected in the characters, or find it to be an accurate depiction of their lived experience. It may contain difficult subject matter and offensive themes and language. Neither Rot Gut Pulp nor the author offer advisories, as sensitivities vary from person to person.

Names, characters, business, events and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Cover Illustration & Design Copyright 2018 by Malinda Dekker

Book design by Catherine Curry

Editing by Curt Sembello & Corliss Wilborne

Rot Gut Pulp. It’s not meant to be good. It’s meant to be read.

Contents

Editor's Note

Death in the City of Dreams

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About CT Liotta

Editor's Note

When CT Liotta visited our offices in Ha Long Bay last summer, he pitched Death in the City of Dreams as the first story in a new series. That distinction eventually went to Relic of the Damned! due to constraints of time and column inches.

Like its predecessor, Death in the City of Dreams is based on a true story. Because of ongoing investigations in Mumbai, we have changed some details. Nevertheless, Rot Gut Pulp is presenting it unadulterated and uncensored—even after a similar decision triggered a flood of reader complaints on release of Relic of the Damned!

Why such recklessness? Because it’s entertaining. We’d throw our grandmother into a jet turbine if there were a nickel in it. If you’re afraid that tales like this will harm children, snatch their e-Readers from their fingers and take them to the park.

My wife, God rest her soul, survived a heart attack only to have a banana truck overturn and kill her. The universe is cruel. If such darkness is unappealing, put this down and read a western from our sister imprint, Lasso and Lariat™.

If you enjoy this story, buy the next one.

Sincerely,

Curt Sembello, E-in-C, Rot Gut Pulp Publications

Rot Gut Pulp. Entertainment, not Genius. ™

Death in the City of Dreams

At one minute past noon on a hot, overcast day in Mumbai, a bomb exploded at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya - the city’s museum of antiquities. Visitors screamed and ran out the doors, hair white with