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    How to Kill a Celebrity
    How to Kill a Celebrity
    How to Kill a Celebrity
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    How to Kill a Celebrity

    By Duncan Ralston

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    Annie's new job is murder.

    When Annie Watkins takes a job at a local New Orleans TV station, she begins to think she's cursed when her preemptive obituaries ("standbys") seem to be killing off famous people left and right.

    With time running out, Annie scrambles to discover what's really happening to her, but it may already be too late.

    This Evil is old… And it always takes a life.

    This NOVELLA is available in the collection Video Nasties.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDuncan Ralston
    Release dateSep 16, 2018
    ISBN9781386865100
    How to Kill a Celebrity
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    Duncan Ralston

    "Author of the cult smash-hit Woom and Ghostland and more than 15 other books that aren't the cult smash-hit Woom or Ghostland. His debut collection was blurbed positively by the legendary Jack Ketchum. In 10 years of publishing, Duncan Ralston hasn't won or been nominated for sh*t outside of screenwriting awards, and is definitely not bitter about it. For 7 FREE dark fiction short stories/novellas including the prequel to GHOSTLAND, ""The Moving House,"" signed copies of Woom, bookplates and merch, please visit www.duncanralston.com."

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      How to Kill a Celebrity - Duncan Ralston

      HOW TO KILL A CELEBRITY

      a Novella

      Duncan Ralston

      Copyright © 2016 by Duncan Ralston

      All rights reserved.

      Also by Duncan Ralston

      Gristle & Bone (collection)

      Salvage (novel)

      Wildfire (novella)

      Woom (novella)

      Where the Monsters Live (novella)

      The Method (novel)

      Video Nasties (collection)

      Ebenezer (novella)

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      HOW TO KILL A CELEBRITY

      A hot wind swept up from the Mississippi as Annie Watkins entered Channel 5 through the employee entrance. Barely a year out of school, she hadn't expected to hear back from NOLA's Favorite News at all, let alone in the same week as her interview. The job hunt had been arduous, but with any luck it was finally over. Annie thought, and not for the first time, about destiny.

      After a few minutes' wait a man named Ray Smart met her in the foyer, introducing himself as her supervisor. She laughed aloud, elated by the news, before rushing to apologize for the outburst. After so long working at the City Park Muffuletta stand while looking for a job in her field, she could finally tell them she was done--unless, of course, she screwed it up acting crazy on her first day.

      Ray Smart gave her a tour of the station. She'd been to several TV facilities the past year, almost literally begging for unpaid work, but had never gotten the full tour. When Holly Weathers--a fitting name for a meteorologist or an adult film star--strode past them in the hall, beaming her sunny smile on them, Annie found herself a little star-struck, but she managed to conceal it well.

      Ray was friendly in a business-like way, chatty about colleagues and staff, but never offering gossip. Annie, with a pad and pen, took notes of things he felt the need to stress. Rotating shifts, days and afternoons, with overtime as required.

      Annie came back on Monday to meet the man who'd be training her. Scrawny, hunched-over, wearing prescription sunglasses, a Rush 2112 t-shirt and cargo shorts with gray tube socks pulled up to his virtually hairless shins, Burt Ellis reminded her of a grimy '80s record producer. His brown hair was thick and wild, skin like tallowed leather and teeth so clean and straight they could only be dentures.

      I'm Burt Ellis, he said, offering a scrawny hand with too-long fingernails.

      Annie took it, zapping him with static. She pulled back, shaking out her hand in pain and embarrassment. Sorry, she told Burt, who stared, mouth agape, in something

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